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...weeks Red China's Dictator Mao Tse-tung has not been seen in Peking. Like Khrushchev or Eisenhower, Mao regularly takes a summer vacation, but after four weeks away Mao failed to return even for Red Army Day, Aug. 1. By last week the signs were piling up that the real reason for his prolonged absence from the capital may be a deep and abiding policy quarrel in the top echelons of China's Communist Party. If this is so, it marks the first time in nearly 20 years that Mao, who has sometimes been denounced by Moscow...
Though Mao Tse-tung labors to establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...Communist bosses have churned out a steady flow of legislation designed, on paper at least, to give something to almost everyone. The Reds' major tactical aim: to create in Kerala an active, working base for the Indian Communist Party, a base modeled to a large degree on Mao Tse-tung's remote redoubt of Yenan, from which Mao won all China...
Despite a "seemingly bland acceptance of all that is Russian as being good," reported Newsman Kinmond, "the true attitude of the Chinese is that they must also learn from countries opposed to the Chinese political system." While pundits from Warsaw to Washington were analyzing Mao Tse-tung's recent policy pronouncement on "many roads to Socialism," Legman Kinmond was there to document what Mao means. Example: the government concedes that for at least five more years it must tolerate limited "state capitalism," under which any citizen with more than $800 invested in business property gets 5% interest-plus brainwashing...
...Tse-tung had called for honest criticism of his government and, lo, from Canton to Chungking there was criticism. The walls of Peking University blazed with multicolored placards pointedly demanding "What is more precious than individual liberty?", angrily proclaiming that "Graduate students know very little because they are allowed to study only Russian methods in physics lab." Engineer Li Pei Ying of Tientsin declared: "Intellectuals live a life that is less peaceful than it was under Japanese or Kuomintang rule...