Word: tse-tung
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Thanks for your cover-picture showing Mr. K., Mao Tse-tung and Cuban Communist Che Guevara. It makes us literally feel their venomous breaths over our shoulder...
...trouble down on China's farms was caused, as so often in China's history, by natural disasters-drought and insect pests in the northern provinces, floods along the southern coast. But nature's harshness was compounded by the adoption last year of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "three-thirds" theory of agriculture, under which one-third of China's land was to be left fallow each year, one-third was to be given over to forest and the final third to be intensively cultivated Japanese-style...
When Red China's Mao Tse-tung decided two years ago to herd his 650 million subjects into beehive-style communes, nobody professed to be more appalled than Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
...Chinese Communists' favorite friends in the West is Old China Hand Edgar Parks Snow, 55, who made his first trek to northwest China to visit them in 1936, interviewed Mao Tse-tung, and has remained a faithful apologist ever since...
...discover whether the people favor Mao Tse-tung's rule means observing the ways by which the government maintains its power. Recent use of military power to suppress rebellion shows, said Lindsay, that the Communist Party lacks mass support. From his point of view, "Knowledge of the situation is easy; but to know what to do is hard...