Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning into a frightful fumble, the propagandists in Peking continued to shout: "There is no low-yield land-only low-yield thinking." Trembling at these injunctions, local party bosses tore up honest production figures and conjured up new ones likely to please Peking. But by last October the Red leadership was beginning to realize that the only alternative to total collapse was relaxation. Meeting in the industrial center of Wuhan, Mao and his satraps decided on their line of retreat. The communes would remain, but they would be "tidied up." Peasants would be "entitled" to money wages and eight hours...
...though this clumsy troublemaking helped out at home, it was disastrous abroad. In its ten-year existence, Red China had acted aggressively from Korea to Kashmir (see map), and always, in their deep suspicion of "white imperialism," the newly independent neutrals of Southeast Asia had made excuses for Peking. But with the savage repression of the Tibetan revolt, and deliberate provocation of India, Southeast Asians were taking seriously the threat of "yellow imperialism." Burma, which had formerly refused U.S. aid, now recoiled at the thought of loans from Peking. Thailand's Marshal Sarit had placed an embargo on imports...
Nothing But a Line. No less important was the fact that Peking's mulish behavior both at home and abroad had strained relations with its Soviet Big Brother. Devoutly Communist as Peking professes to be, there have always been tensions between Russia and Red China-a fact that emerges clearly from the comments of Russian technicians who have worked in China. "In little ways," says a Soviet chemist, "the Chinese showed us up, and sometimes behind our backs they called us Big Noses, as if we were no better than oldtime imperialists...
...Russians' acute awareness of the 5,000-mile border between underpopulated Siberia and jampacked China. Khrushchev's pouring of more than 1,000,000 young Russians into the lands beyond the Urals is almost certainly designed in part to populate the empty reaches of Siberia before Red China grows much moire powerful. Nor does the Kremlin make much effort to disguise the fact that it would be happier to see China expand toward Southeast Asia than toward the north...
...stamps had an odd look. No matter how she turned the red, white and blue issue commemorating the St. Lawrence Seaway opening,* Mildred Mason, 20, a stenographer for a Winnipeg theater chain, could not get them right side up. She looked closer and realized that the center design and some lettering on 27 newly purchased stamps were upside down...