Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruminating on the fantastic reports that are daily pouring out of Red China, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week was moved to declare: "We don't know what they mean, but that doesn't embarrass us, because Mao Tse-tung obviously doesn't know what they mean either." The world's capitals are all having difficulty in judging the meaning of the tales of peasant armies and pitched battles, of death in high places and kangaroo courts, of confusion and chaos from one end of mainland China to the other. But one thing...
...Mao's naked power struggle with his "bourgeois" enemies is becoming so turbulent, in fact, that it is causing mounting concern among the countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which...
...solved the conflict through compromise. True to Mao, he intensified the ideological education of soldiers, but at the same time accelerated work on the atomic bomb and began to devote more time to military training...
...current Cultural Revolution is in a grander sense another clash of "reds" and "experts" that may tear apart the old compromise. The reds are Mao's Red Guards plus groups of older citizens that support them; the experts are the bureaucrats and local party leaders who have devoted their lives to fulfilling production quotas and maintaining their power...
Army officers who supported P'eng in 1959 probably realize that their interests lie with the anti-Mao, expert faction. But they face a dilemma. They don't want to risk another defeat, especially in this case, when no one knows (or likes to think about) the fate of the losers. Yet, they are not eager to give substantial help to the reds...