Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
...plot, said Peking, was hatched almost a year ago. On Oct. 1, Red China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic...
...Riva and Yamaguchi were carried out immediately after the "plot" was announced. Reported Radio Peking: as the condemned were led to their death, "the streets they passed through were thronged with people who expressed their feelings .. . with shouts of 'Down with imperialism! Suppress counterrevolutionaries! Long live Chairman Mao...
...questions about the propriety of the trade. Just throwing a few crumbs to the Reds to keep them off his neck, he explained, recalling that during World War II he had stood the Japanese off, for the Allies' benefit, in similar fashion. But Macao's aid to Mao is more than crumbs, and even crumbs are important to a regime hungering for war materials...
...possibility of a split between Mao and Stalin cannot be entirely ruled out. But it would be a terribly dangerous gamble for the U.S. to let itself be guided by hope for such a split. For Mao to rebel against Stalin, or for Stalin to force Mao into a rebellion, would be a blunder bordering on insanity. Both Mao and Stalin have made big mistakes before, but there is little in their long, successful careers to indicate that they are likely to commit such a whopper...