Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government got a new flag. Against a red ground, it has one large yellow star, symbolizing Communist Party leadership, and four smaller yellow stars, symbolizing workers, farmers, petty bourgeoisie and national capitalists. Chairman Mao proclaimed: "This government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign government...
...Peiping, Mao ordered ten days of celebration. The capital turned out for a big military parade, complete with 14 planes of the new Chinese Red Air Force. In Shanghai, schoolgirls marched, gongs and cymbals sounded, giant Red stars appeared everywhere under the new gold-starred flag of the "People's" Republic...
...governments of the Western diplomats gathered at Moscow's Spasso House had not arrived at any clear, coordinated policy on whether to recognize Red China. The U.S. was still waiting "for the dust to settle...
...demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
...fascinating show for the M.P.s, who sat packed in cheek-by-jowl discomfort on the red leather benches. There was not room for all to sit down; a group of standees looked on eagerly from the rear of the room. The M.P.s were bemused by the champions but not awed by them; both debaters were frequently interrupted by heckling and laughter...