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...poetry, a favorite preoccupation of scholars, has been in low repute in China since the advent of Communism. The subtle ideograms of the poet's traditional language have little in common with the blunt ideologies of modern Marxism, and for that reason China's top Communist, Mao Tse-tung, has long had to dissemble the fact that he is a workaday poet himself...
...last June) had attacked Yugoslav Vice President Edvard Kardelj (a leader in Yugoslavia's 1948 quarrel with Stalin) as a "bourgeois diplomat." And to underscore Molotov's attitude towards Tito himself, a story was being told of a Peking reception at which Red China's Mao Tse-tung inquired of the Belgrade ambassador, "How is Tito?" and Molotov, standing near by, was heard to say, "That...
Because their International Trade Ministry forbids the sale of heavy industrial goods to the Communists, the Japanese exhibitors displayed only light machinery, textiles and the gadgets for which their factories are famous. Yet on opening day Chairman Mao Tse-tung led 85,000 Chinese through the show. Fascinated by the mechanical toys, Mao spent part of his two-hour visit delightedly pressing buttons to make a toy bus stop, back and turn by remote control. He also found time to say: "I realize Japan's connections with the U.S. make the problem difficult, but we hope for restored Sino...
...names have been more closely linked in Communist propaganda than those of Soviet Russia's Joseph Stalin and Red China's Mao Tse-tung. One of the first questions raised by First Party Secretary Khrushchev's exposure of Stalin as an egomaniac and mass murderer last February was, How does this affect Mao? Last week, gathered for the eighth National Party Congress in their history, the first since 1945, Chinese Communists let it be known that the "cult" of Mao's "personality" was ended, but that Mao was still their august leader...
...power. If there was a dominating characteristic, it was confidence. "We have achieved great successes in every field," said Mao. Added Presidium Member Liu Shao-chi, the party's No. 2 man and reigning theorist: "Our party, under the leadership of the Central Committee headed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, has not made any mistake in its line during the past 25 years." Public Security Minister Lo Jui-ching, who between 1950 and 1955 had directed the greatest mass liquidation in history (TIME, March 5), confidently announced that it was now "totally impossible for counter-revolutionaries to stage...