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...only five years of power, had achieved the strength and status of partnership with Red Russia. The evidence was in the language of communiques ("increased defensive potential," and "accumulation of necessary economic experience"). It was evident even more in the way the accords were struck. Four years ago, Mao Tse-tung himself meekly trooped off to Moscow, signed, under Stalin's eye, the treaty leaving the strategic Port Arthur region in Russian hands. This time Mao did not go to Moscow. Three of the top Russian rulers, headed by No. 2 man, Nikita
...solemnize China's new status, India's Jawaharlal Nehru went northward to pay his court. As the leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...
...shots sounded from the huge tanks and tractor-drawn howitzers clanking over ancient Peking's streets. Thousands of marching troops shouted "Liberate Formosa!" Jets and bombers speckled the sky. White "peace" doves fluttered above the heads of half a million workers, who held high huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels...
...Even though there may be some evil behind it, saying the right thing and trying to act up to it will gradually do away with that evil in the mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there by that time) in the hope of seeing Ho Chi Minh...
...great achievement in the further democratization of China's political life," the Peking People's Daily proclaimed as the farce began. Delegates were carefully schooled on who was to get the most respect: after party chairman Mao Tse-tung, "his close comrades in arms. Liu Shao-chi and Chou En-lai." Delegates listened dutifully to onrushes of grey gobbledygook, in which the only interesting point was the renewed slavish dedication to Moscow. From Mao: "The people of our country should learn from Soviet Russia and be prepared [through] several five-year plans to build our country." From Moscow...