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...reach out of our accustomed economic niche to become students of history, literature and philosophy." Last week TIME opened its first bureau on mainland China since our office in Shanghai was closed in September 1949, four months after the city was taken over by the forces of Mao Tse-tung. The newest of our 31 bureaus is located in Peking's Qianmen Hotel, ten minutes by car from the Chinese capital's broad Tiananmen Square. Last August TIME became the first U.S. newsmagazine to be circulated in China. Our reporting on that country will be much enriched...
Those slogans, chanted by Red Guards as they paraded down the streets of Peking in 1967, signaled the downfall of China's pragmatic chief of state Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch'i); Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who regarded Liu as a rival for power, had deemed him to be the nation's chief enemy. Last week the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting secretly in Peking, reversed Mao's verdict and effectively rewrote the past 13 years of Chinese history...
...takeovers. Between 1944 and 1948, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all fell under Soviet control, either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes...
DIED. Frantisek Kriegel, 71, Czechoslovak physician and politician; of a heart attack; in Prague. After serving his profession and political conscience as a medical officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander...
DIED. Chang Kuo-t'ao, 82, one of the twelve founders of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and early rival to Mao Tse-tung for the party's leadership; in Toronto. Chairman of the C.C.P.'s First Congress and member of the party's original triumvirate, Chang came to blows with Mao in 1934 over the strategy of the 6,000-mile Long March retreat. Ousted from the party in 1938, Chang left China when the Communists took over...