Word: tse-tung
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...Guards have failed so far to make good their boast to export the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the rest of the world. But some signs of Mao Tse-tung's new way of doing things have cropped up in Red China's embassies abroad. Soon after he unleashed his teen-age zealots in Peking, Mao dispatched an order to his diplomats: act in a proletarian way, do your own dishes, tend your own garden, wear simple clothing, be frugal...
...Peace, scene of Red China's monster rallies. Up around the square went pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. On the facade of the gate towers went huge pictures of sunflowers bending to the sun, symbolic of the world's people being drawn to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. And on the north wall, dwarfing all the other portraits, was a tinted image of the sun god himself...
Even before Mao Tse-tung unleashed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Red China had managed to isolate itself from most of the world. The weird rampages of the Red Guards made the alienation virtually complete. As no other major nation in modern times, Red China stands alone, with other Communist countries possibly even more appalled by its actions than anyone else...
...Your cover story on that nut house called China [Sept. 9] was a splendid piece of political writing. Mao Tse-tung has gone even beyond Stalin, his patron saint and political guru, in villainy. No political leader in history cuts such a ridiculous figure trying to stamp his aging image on the hearts of nearly 800 million people...
...trains, buses and trucks have been crammed with groups of excited students and teachers. They are crowding into the city's university halls and football stadiums, into railroad-station waiting rooms and public squares "to exchange revolutionary experiences" and listen to lectures on the means of spreading Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution across the land. Peking, in fact, has become a giant revolving revival meeting as tens of thousands have come to town, then, rearmed with Mao's think, have gone home, often accompanied by cadres of Peking students to ensure their continued doctrinal...