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...They admire consistency, even when it comes in a conservative wrapping such as that of William F. Buckley Jr. or Everett McKinley Dirksen (a sort of "camp" hero to the young for his hypersincere LP, Gallant Men). They deride extremists of all stripes-from Alabama's Wallaces to Mao Tse-tung. Whom would they nominate for President? The latest survey shows Bobby Kennedy and Mark Hatfield trailing Snoopy...
What the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution need these days is a stoutly enforced Post No Bills ordinance in Peking...
...character" posters pasted on the city's walls first popped up five months ago as impromptu, crudely lettered marching orders for Mao's rabble-rousing young Red Guards. As China's power struggle has gathered ferocity, handwriting on the wall has developed into the fine art of big character assassination, purge by poster and partisan propagandizing. Every morning, foreign correspondents in Peking eagerly scan the walls for information notably unavailable in the Chinese press itself...
Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...
Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...