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Moses & Alfred. In the course of the book, Monty ranks a score of world figures from Moses to Mao Tse-tung on his highly personal report card. Moses "had the wisdom and the insight into human nature to realize that the best way to raise morale in an army is by victories in battle." Christ, "the greatest Leader of all time, gave His followers a set of principles and an unforgettable example ... He claims to be the light we need; no other man has ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their...
...Tse-tung's proudest contribution to Communist theory was the commune. Undreamed of by Marx or Engels, the commune was designed to mobilize China's peasant masses into huge work units, was a sharp point of dispute between Moscow and Mao. "Impracticably Utopian," said the Russian orthodoxy. Retorted Mao: "The best form of organization for the attainment of socialism and the gradual transition to Communism." But after nearly three years of all-out effort, it is apparent that Mao's communes have failed. They are now being abandoned, in fact if not in name...
...then emerging cold war antagonists, Communist Russia and China, were experts. The Army set up the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center in a collection of old buildings at Fort Bragg, N.C. Its first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass and tie down 10 to 15 times its own number in conventional enemy troops-for example, 300,000 partisans could...
...gold-eagle bookends stayed on the presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk...
After a solemn five-day meeting of the Central Committee, they issued a communiqué that flatly reversed Chairman Mao Tse-tung's cherished plan to achieve a "big leap" in industry. Instead, the communiqué called for "appropriately reduced" industrial investments and urged "all sectors and occupations to step up support for agriculture" as "the foundation of the national economy...