Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the chairman of Japan's Communist Party, Sanzo Nosaka, dates his friendship to Mao Tse-tung back to Mao's struggle in Yenan during the '305, the powerful Secretary-General, Kenji Miyamoto, is a devoted follower of the Kremlin. While Peking issues a trickle of invitations to Japanese leftists, the Soviet Union maintains a steady cultural offensive by welcoming Japanese singers, scientists. Kabuki dancer-actors...
...Party Congress renewed the controversy, the pressure for public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species of left-wing extremists made trouble for the orthodox branch of the party. Not long ago, Brazilian police investigating their militant Peasant Leagues in the poverty-stricken northeast found copies of Mao Tse-tung's famous guerrilla warfare handbook, translated into Portuguese, with illustrations in which Chinese faces had been carefully changed to Latin American faces...
Monty saw no loss of confidence in Red China's leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...
...show Panorama, Monty burbled that Mao Tse-tung had liberated millions of people from misery and humiliation. "He's a very sincere man. When you look at him you have a feeling of sincerity-a very fine, strong face. He's the sort of man I'd go in the jungle with...
What about Red Chinese brutality in Tibet and the suppression of the Buddhist religion? "I could have asked," conceded Monty, "but I didn't want to. I'm very friendly with Mao Tse-tung, and I didn't want to irritate him in any way. I wanted to find out what was going on in China. What was going on in Tibet to me was unimportant at the moment." Not only does Monty want Red China in the U.N., he is all for handing over Formosa to the Communists. But what about the 10 million Formosans-shouldn...