Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao's Answer. While U.S. and South Vietnamese staffers conferred in Saigon, their opposite numbers were doing the same in the North Viet Nam capital of Hanoi. In this case, the military advisers were a Red Chinese mission that significantly included the commander in chief of Red China's air force. The delegation's leader, Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, described China and North Viet Nam as "lip and teeth neighbors" who maintain "fraternal cooperation and friendship in all fields." Hong Kong Communist newspapers boast that Red China will match U.S. help to Saigon with increased help...
...also filled his diary with admonitory phrases that echo the books on guerrilla fighting by Red China's Mao Tse-tung and North Viet Nam's able General Giap, conqueror of Dienbienphu: "Be extremely friendly with local comrades and very parsimonious with the food supply they give us . . . Respect the local population and never touch their property . . . Observe absolute secrecy and discipline . . . Only attack when victory is certain...
Your article most impressively points up how ill harmonized the goals of the Chinese Communists are with the real needs of the Chinese people. No matter what "utopian" goals Mao Tse-tung and his colleagues have in mind for China, to gain them a long and fearful exploitation of an oppressed, hungry people seems a necessity. In their pursuance, as well, the Chinese people will be denied the invaluable help of reflecting upon their rich and noble past or upon any form of spiritual and moral ideals. The Chinese Communist "utopia" that may form, needless to say, will be void...
...John Parker, the director of the current production, has taken full advantage of the ridiculousness of the situation. His peers have scowls that could wither Mao, and their gait is eminently noble. Even more importantly, two of them are excellent comic actors. Mr. David S. Cole is the most susceptible of highly susceptible Chancellors--a perfectly dirty old man, he totters about, ogling near-sightedly at his wards in Chancery, and kicking fretfully at the traces of a ruined dignity...
...Peking's press and radio blare night and day that China is ringed by imperialist bases, infested with reactionary spies, and subject to all sorts of dastardly plots. Some governments might fear the effect of piling tension on tension, of driving to despair the most docile population. But Mao Tse-tung believes in tension as a normal state. The Chinese masses, he once explained, ''are first poor and secondly 'blank.' That may seem a bad thing, but it is really a good thing. A blank sheet of paper has no marks, and so the newest...