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Later, in answer to a specific question on the purge of certain Communist leaders, Hood speculated that Western agents might have planted some of the evidence that led to Stalin's action. "You don't know how they work," he said.
After quoting several Communist writers, who referred to "international struggle" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat," Schwarz concluded that "a man who has renounced his conscience has no place on the faculty of a free university." He then cited numerous purge actions in the U.S.S.R., adding that the only thing...
But another purge in Peking was scarcely enough to take the peasants' minds off their woes. For that purpose, Mao & Co. raised the cry that "foreign imperialists" were threatening peace-loving China. It was a hoary gambit, especially for Peking. In 1950 the Communists had helped consolidate their initial...
Most important casualty of the purge was Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, 58, a tough-minded, nearly illiterate soldier's soldier who fought United Nations forces to a standstill in Korea. Peng's replacement: Marshal Lin Piao, 51, a graduate of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military...
Except for Peng Teh-huai, most of last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed...