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AUGUST: QUEMOY. When Red China's Mao Tse-tung conferred in Peking with Khrushchev, began bombarding the Chinese Nationalist offshore island of Quemoy, attempted in a U.S. congressional election year to scare off the U.S. with hair-raising war threats, the U.S. warned Red China that it intended to meet force with force (TIME, Dec. 29). Result: Red China backed down in a crushing loss of face, fired its army chief of staff. Year's score in Asia: Red China lost great face...
...Polish officials passed him, and Fu Tsun flew safely on to London. Friends hid him out in the country, but he was willing to answer a few questions from the press. What did he think of things in China? Said Fu Tsun tactfully: "Whatever people may think of Mao Tse-tung's policies, I say he is the greatest modern Chinese poet...
With just the right touch of respect for his elders, Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, 64, wafted eastward a friendly birthday message for Comrade Mao Tse-tung, 65, hailed his "untiring and many-sided activities in leading the heroic struggle of the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party...
...hear them tell it last week, Mao Tse-tung was stepping serenely down from the most tedious of his five jobs, and Nikita Khrushchev was proclaiming some of the greatest victories in Soviet agricultural history...
...Peking boasted that true Communism would be achieved in as little as "three to six years." Last week the Chinese Reds sang a different tune: it might take "15 or 20 years" to do the job. And in the midst of these signs of strain, Red Boss Mao Tse-tung stepped down from the prestigious but not crucial position of head of state, which he has held ever since 1949. He remained as party chairman-the key job in Communist China...