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...past two years, the only cohesive and controlling force in a China disrupted by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has been the army. If it has not always exercised its power in a way that has pleased the leadership in Peking, the rea son is not hard to find: most of the sol diers in the People's Liberation Army are of peasant stock, and it is the peas ants who have been especially recalcitrant in the face of Peking's rule -even before the Cultural Revolution was ever launched. While the revolution...
John Paton Davies Jr. was born in China, the son of U.S. missionary parents. He joined the Foreign Service in 1931, served largely in the Orient and advised General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell in Chungking during World War II. There, he criticized Chiang Kai-shek for battling Mao Tse-tung's Communists more ardently than their common enemy, the invading Japanese armies. That stand cost Davies his job. In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy named him as part of a group that "did so much toward delivering our Chinese friends into Communist hands...
...They are allowed to travel outside the capital again, and even such arch-revisionists as the Yugoslavs are treated with courtesy. Two years ago, the dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged...
Celebrating Mao Tse-tung's 75th birthday, Communist China exploded its second successful thermonuclear device...
...Soviet Union to assign graduates to rural work, in part to help them overcome their traditional aversion to dirty hands. But the current mass deportation of intellectuals from urban centers has more far-reaching goals and implications. Chinese broadcasts emphasize that the mass upheaval is part of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's plan for a revolution in the country's educational policies; he is said to believe that the present setup tends to perpetuate urban, bourgeois values. It is also something of a "rectification" campaign, however, designed to punish the young Red Guards who ran wild after...