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Chinese Earth. Red China's bosses are also making tremendous claims. Writing on "The Surging Tide of Socialism in the Chinese Countryside," Mao Tse-tung last week asserted that some 70 million farm families-more than two-thirds of all peasant households-have now been collectivized. He told a party meeting in Peking that Red China's Socialist revolution "has rolled ahead so fast" since he ordered a speedup last summer that he now thinks it can be basically achieved for China's 585 million in about three more years. Apparently Mao believes his great purge...
Capitalism evidently involves doing what comes naturally, Red China's rulers reluctantly admit. They just can't seem to root out its surviving tendencies. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung has made only two big speeches this year. The first, made last summer but published only last month, decreed a drastic stepping-up of farm collectivization (TIME, Dec. 5). The second speech, made six weeks ago, was called "Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce." It still has not been made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils of free...
With these earthy sarcasms, the ex-farmboy who bosses about one-fifth of the world's people came down last July from the Olympian remoteness in which he has been wrapped for seven years. Before him, Mao Tse-tung could see failure...
...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
...customary proletarian mufti, Red China's pudgy Chairman Mao Tse-tung, looking like a reasonably good insurance risk at his age (68), emerged from Peking to make an inspection tour along the Yellow River, where the Communists say they are undertaking monumental flood-control projects...