Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East temporarily eases up, trouble breaks out in Asia. But whether or not the trouble was Mao's doing alone, or Moscow's too, there was nothing haphazard about it. When joined with Peking's saber rattling against India (see below), it became clear that Red China was in the mood to make trouble. Peking may hesitate to start up Quemoy again (having been thrown off last time), it may fear new hostilities in Korea, but it is plainly determined to start something on its southern frontiers...
Through the years, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has leaned precariously backward to stay on good terms with Red China, to profess mutual belief in the five peaceful principles, and to sponsor Communist China's membership in the U.N. But last week in India it was becoming increasingly clear that Peking's Communists just will not be friends...
...Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like lice in our clothing," said another speaker, who demanded they be "cleansed." Asked about the Red general's remarks, Nehru commented: "It would be an extremely foolish person who would make the remarks attributed to this gentleman." As for the "very large Chinese forces all over Tibet." said Nehru, India "is quite awake and alert over the matter...
Nonetheless, come fall, India again intends to sponsor Red China's admission to the U.N. But no longer with the old unanimity. "Is there no limit to the humiliations and harassments we are prepared to accept at China's hands?" asked the Indian Express...
...details came out through the totalitarian screen of secrecy, and it was hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading...