Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that floating committee room, the Baltika, churned and rolled across the Atlantic with Nikita Khrushchev and his claque of Communism's top brass, most pervasive presence aboard was the man who wasn't there-Red China's Mao Tsetung. It is increasingly apparent that, more than the Congo or Cuba, what is chiefly on Khrushchev's mind is his clash with Mao...
...West, the squabble may seem merely a falling-out among ideologues. But in reality the dispute has been translated into a bitter competition for high stakes. Western experts who used to discount the Khrushchev-Mao dispute now think it is real, and widening, and may even come to an open break...
Moscow Flanked. The Chinese challenge is based on the contention that they hate colonialism even more than the Russians. The contention is couched in terms of an argument about "peaceful coexistence." But basically, Mao and his men charge that Khrushchev has lost his nerve; that the West's nuclear deterrent has intimidated him. Wrote China's Red Flag scornfully and pointedly: "To be afraid of war, and so to oppose all wars, even denying support to just wars, and to dream of begging peace from the imperialists will sap one's will to fight, bind...
...Khrushchev has another audience he keeps much in mind these days: Red China's insubordinate Mao Tse-tung. By assembling in New York all the world's Communist chieftains save Mao. Khrushchev underlines Peking's exclusion from the U.N. and perhaps emphasizes the isolation in which Red China would stand if it ever broke with Russia. The sight of Nikita bustling about the U.N. corridors closed to Mao might also be intended to remind Afro-Asians which Communist power can do most for them diplomatically, now that Peking and Moscow are competing around the world for support...
Thanks for your cover-picture showing Mr. K., Mao Tse-tung and Cuban Communist Che Guevara. It makes us literally feel their venomous breaths over our shoulder...