Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainland is at its lowest ebb, cites information relayed by a recently defected Communist MIG pilot and letters received on Formosa from peasants in the coastal province of Fukien who pleaded for liberation. Moreover, argues Chiang, the Sino-Soviet split has be come such a bitter personal rivalry between Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev that the Soviet leader probably would not run the risk of touching off a general nuclear war by coming to Mao's aid. Concludes Chiang: this is the "chance of a lifetime" that may never come again...
...Mao Tse-tung built his revolution in China on the peasants, then crushed them. Cuba's Castro still pays lip service to a peasant ideal, but little else. Asked if they can do better, the F.L.N. leaders grimly answer that they must. F.L.N...
...experts expect Russia to have any farm surplus problem for years to come. It is perhaps Communism's greatest failure that nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
According to cold fact, 20th Century-Fox has poured at least $19 million into the picture. The total cost will probably run to $25 million, making it the most expensive motion picture ever made. As far as most studio executives are concerned, Taylor could have an affair with Mao Tse-tung-provided she stays on the job in Rome. The trade freely predicts that 20th Century-Fox may never become 21st Century-Fox if Taylor should bug out of the film...
...Mao was lenient toward Peng, he remained furious at Khrushchev and his furtive interference in China's internal affairs. Mao, according to the China Quarterly version, demanded an apology; Khrushchev refused. At the Bucharest Communist conference in June 1960, Khrushchev lashed out instead at the Chinese for "persecuting" any comrades who had contacts with the Soviet Union. All this aggravated the basic difference between Khrushchev's "coexistence" line as against Mao's rigidly revolutionary policy, and helped bring the fight into the open...