Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moses & Alfred. In the course of the book, Monty ranks a score of world figures from Moses to Mao Tse-tung on his highly personal report card. Moses "had the wisdom and the insight into human nature to realize that the best way to raise morale in an army is by victories in battle." Christ, "the greatest Leader of all time, gave His followers a set of principles and an unforgettable example ... He claims to be the light we need; no other man has ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their...
...estimates were carefully made: before he wrote the book, he personally visited his living subjects in their native habitats, and he always asked himself: "Would I go in the jungle with that man?'' By that standard, each was eligible for Monty's safari except Khrushchev. Mao, whom he met in Peking in May 1960, he regarded as 'the peace-loving ruler of an emancipated people-sort of trustworthy, friendly, courteous, cheerful, clean and reverent. Can Mao be persuaded that "the best interests of China lie in being friendly to the West?" Says Monty: "I shall...
...Mao Tse-tung's proudest contribution to Communist theory was the commune. Undreamed of by Marx or Engels, the commune was designed to mobilize China's peasant masses into huge work units, was a sharp point of dispute between Moscow and Mao. "Impracticably Utopian," said the Russian orthodoxy. Retorted Mao: "The best form of organization for the attainment of socialism and the gradual transition to Communism." But after nearly three years of all-out effort, it is apparent that Mao's communes have failed. They are now being abandoned, in fact if not in name...
Undermine the Family. The cadres, eager to please Mao. set improbably high targets, kept workers in the fields from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., and during the planting season even longer. By the end of 1958, in the historic "Great Leap Forward," some 550 million peasants in 740.000 cooperatives were swallowed up in 26.500 communes. "We must undermine the capitalist type of social living," said the official Communist organ. Red Flag, "We must undermine the family...
...then emerging cold war antagonists, Communist Russia and China, were experts. The Army set up the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center in a collection of old buildings at Fort Bragg, N.C. Its first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass and tie down 10 to 15 times its own number in conventional enemy troops-for example, 300,000 partisans could...