Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of the Middle East's economy in 1952-53, issued last week, was a story of growth and gaps: ¶ Agricultural output (mostly because of Turkey's strides) rose 7%, but trade among the nations of the region declined, and the area's unfavorable balance of trade with the outside world rose. ¶ The area's proved oil reserves (half the world's reserves in 1952) rose another 18.6%. Crude output also increased 15.1% over the previous year. This brought in a whopping $500 million in royalties. Saddening note: less than a fifth...
...first hint that all was not going well between Mao and his military proconsuls came last February when Liu Shao-chi, the party theoretician and No. 2 in the hierarchy, warned: "Some of our high-ranking cadres . . . regard the region under their leadership as their individual inheritance or independent kingdom." Last week, after months of maneuvering, Peking abolished the six regional areas and substituted 26 provincial administrations, which Peking can more easily control. The six regional bosses gathered in the capital for reckoning and reassignment. Mao Tse-tung immediately appointed them to the People's Revolutionary Military Council, where...
...China region (wealthy, industrial Manchuria), the only civilian regional boss, member of the Politburo and since January director of China's lagging Five-Year Plan. A fast riser, he is now considered to be riding for a fall...
General Peng Te-huai, chairman of the Northwest China region (China's Wild West), No. 2 army general (after Chu Teh), former commander of the Chinese army in Korea and member of the Politburo...
General Chen Yi, military ruler of the East China region, conqueror and mayor of Shanghai, commander of the third field army and perennial squabbler with his political commissars...