Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missions followed him-the U.S., the Philippines. Korea and France. Since then, though there has been a constant clamor to oust Chiang and to seat Communist China in the U.N., only 18 non-Communist nations have recognized the Red regime in Peking. But 44 nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt, which did so in May 1956 during Nasser's early flirtation with the Communists...
When Ting Ling arrived at Chairman Mao's headquarters in Shensi province in 1934, she had all the right credentials: literary fame, a husband executed by the Central government for treason, a year in a Nationalist prison herself. Mao was so impressed that he promptly gave her a job (as vice chairman of a Red army guard unit), then proceeded to write a poem in praise both of Ting Ling and her new job, which by poetic license upgraded the job a bit. Sang Mao: "In the past a literary miss, she is now a General of Armies...
Offstage Noises. On June 28 "security forces" unmasked a counter-revolutionary group in the old Nationalist capital of Nanking. In Hanyang, the Communist radio reported, 1,000 students had demonstrated for two days, shouting, "Welcome back to the Kuomintang. Chairman Mao will come down off the stage soon...
...Kwangtung province, Peking claimed that a plot to blow up the Canton-Shamchun rail line died aborning when the chief saboteur, "caught carrying 1.5 kilograms of U.S.-made high explosives," had a change of mind and surrendered to authorities. He told Red officials he had been "coerced" by Nationalist agents in Hong Kong, and a grateful Peoples' Council decided that this full and frank confession deserved a reward: they gave him a fountain pen. Communist informers also uncovered a plot in Tsinghai "led by intellectuals and financed by capitalists" who planned to overthrow the regime. The plotters' goal...
...backing a battler. To keep his program from being junked or sidetracked. Siles has gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in his own Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated ruling body...