Word: tse-tung
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Wearing sweet-smelling jasmine and a gay sarong, a Burmese beauty queen welcomed Chou En-lai to Rangoon last week, on the second stage of his triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...
Though many small-fry deviationists have crumpled before Mao Tse-tung's firing squads. Red China's masters in 30 years of party organization have yet to undergo a true Russian-style purge. Yet there were mighty stresses and strains in seizing and subduing a vast and unwieldy country of 600 million hungry people. Peking's first solution of the problem was to divide China into six administrative regions, all but one of them in the charge of a first-line army general. The six leaders were, in effect, local warlords bound together by Communist discipline...
...regard the region under their leadership as their individual inheritance or independent kingdom." Last week, after months of maneuvering, Peking abolished the six regional areas and substituted 26 provincial administrations, which Peking can more easily control. The six regional bosses gathered in the capital for reckoning and reassignment. Mao Tse-tung immediately appointed them to the People's Revolutionary Military Council, where he could keep an eye on them...
...kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...
Giap has always fought by the classic Mao Tse-tung doctrine of Asian war: "Never fight unless victory is certain"; he must also synchronize with Peking and Geneva. But Giap has perhaps three clear weeks, and apprehensive French eyes are already turning towards a rubble-dust town called Phuly, 40 miles south of Hanoi, and the most vulnerable spot in the Delta. Giap has already eroded eleven of Phuly's twelve outlying defense posts; he has the twelfth under harassment; and from now on, his possibilities are a succession of dangerous "ifs." If Giap attacks Phuly, if he gets...