Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleak future of China drew comment last week from a distinguished scholar who for five years has been stationed at Mao's doorstep: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Retiring from his post last week, the 55-year-old Tokyo-born Harvard professor, who has studied in China and written about the country, took the occasion to offer his own assessment of trends on the mainland...
Speaking to the Tokyo press, Reischauer described Mao's mainland as country," "fundamentally a contended weak that and Peking's real backward power is too often exaggerated. In coming decades, he predicted, it will be industrialized and democratic Japan - not China - that will be the source of "in spiration" to other Asian lands. Added Reischauer: "Communist China's in fluence is an influence by fear. I am certain that Japan's positive influence will prove infinitely more important." In fact, he suggested, "in the long run Communist China will be one of the countries influenced...
...arguing for a softening of the ten-month purge that has swept the country. One day Peking's newspapers were nine hours late reaching the stands. The reason for the delay, according to rumors in the capital, was a decision to withdraw a front-page picture of Chairman Mao...
...there were any differences within the party, they did not show up in the Central Committee's communiqué. It disclosed that the oft-postponed third Five-Year Plan is under way at last, and commended Mao for his "brilliant" policies. As for the purge, the committee declared that "an invigorating revolutionary atmosphere prevails in the whole country, and the situation is one of a new all-round leap forward emerging." If things seemed to be a bit chaotic as a result, what did it matter? "Dare to make revolution and be good at revolution," cried Peking...
...dead; film clips of G.I.s in the jungle remind older West Germans of ruthless Nazi anti-guerrilla tactics in France and Russia, which were not only unsavory but unsuccessful. A current poll shows that 30% of Frenchmen think Lyndon Johnson is more dangerous than Communist China's Mao Tse-tung; 35% of West Germans favor ending the bombing of North Viet Nam. Says West German Vice Chancellor Erich Mende...