Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Named the new chairman of the Chinese People's Republic, to succeed Mao Tse-tung (still boss of the party and China's No. 1 man): Liu Shao-chi, who thus consolidated his place as Red China's No. 2 man and heir apparent...
...close by the village of Mao Tse-tung, of middle-class peasants. Not even official Chinese sources give a consistent birthdate, though he is probably 61. Mao and Liu attended the same normal school in industrial Changsha, early became Communists. By 1919 Liu had joined the staff of a Red newspaper edited by Mao Tse-tung, and been sent to the Soviet Union to study at Moscow's Far Eastern University...
When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent. Summoned to Yenan in 1942 he began his rise to the top levels of the party reportedly as personal secretary to Mao Tse-tung, and as an expert in "indoctrination methods," meaning brainwashing...
...opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist terms-was proved right. He annoys Soviet officials by telling them that Russians are not capable of understanding China, and displays the contempt of an old street agitator for the commanding generals of the Red Chinese army. A man unlovely and unloved, Liu Shao-chi resembles Stalin or Molotov more than any other top Chinese Communist...
Chile's Hernán Videla Lira raised the menace of Red trade. "Moscow," he said, "has definitely stated that it is attempting the economic conquest of the free world and, in this way, imposition of its political conditions." But despite hundreds of proposed deals-including 176 to Brazil alone in 1958-Iron-and Bamboo-Curtain trade runs around only 1% of Latin America's total. And Communist loans to all of Latin America so far total only...