Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates to the National People"s Congress will convene on March 5. Hardly by coincidence, Khrushchev called a Kremlin meeting of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee for the same date, ostensibly to discuss Soviet agriculture. In fact, a main topic, acknowledged or not, will be the Mao-Khrushchev rift and what to do about it. But the agricultural problem on the agenda is more than camouflage. Amid their ideological battles, both the Russian and Chinese regimes are urgently concerned with the price of eggs and hogs, which is ultimately related to the price of political survival...
...tough old soldier who defected from the Kuomintang and fought alongside Mao Tse-tung during the famed Long March in the '30s, Peng was the leader of the conservative faction of the Chinese politburo. While on a trip to Albania in May 1959, he secretly told Nikita Khrushchev of his strong opposition to Mao's agricultural commune system. With Khrushchev's encouragement, Peng returned to China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as "petty bourgeois fanaticism." At a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee in August 1959, Peng said that...
...never been a real Communist at all). As a former member of the Kuomintang, he was accused of joining the Communist Party only out of opportunism. Condemned to a period of intensive reindoctrination, Peng recanted, asked for the opportunity to rehabilitate himself by working as an ordinary peasant. Mao benevolently excused him from manual labor, exiled him to obscurity as a superintendent of a commune...
...country or a regime that feels itself in extreme danger may not be much moved by the argument that we often put on TIME'S cover people whose policies or actions we have no sympathy with, as when we show China's Mao or East Germany's Ulbricht. Notoriety and evil, or even misguided passion, shape events and make news, just as achievement does. And it is our business to report the news, sometimes at the moment most inconvenient to the participants. Misunderstandings, resentments and injured feelings over what we publish arise constantly, usually in nations with...
...Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein returned from Red China last year rapturously describing Red Boss Mao Tse-tung as "the sort of man I'd go in the jungle with...