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Among Uncle Sam's motley assortment of bosom friends, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has never been known to be red hot for civil liberties and that sort of thing. He is, if only by virtue of his friendliness (or perhaps dependence), a pleasant alternative to Mao TseTung, but the internal affairs of the island of Formosa have occasionally become an embarrassing skeleton in the United States' diplomatic closet...
...that floating committee room, the Baltika, churned and rolled across the Atlantic with Nikita Khrushchev and his claque of Communism's top brass, most pervasive presence aboard was the man who wasn't there-Red China's Mao Tsetung. It is increasingly apparent that, more than the Congo or Cuba, what is chiefly on Khrushchev's mind is his clash with...
...prestige. Nikita Khrushchev, 1957's Man of the Year, had commanded the scientific resources to produce a Sputnik, but for all his promises and boasts, he could not solve or begin to solve his country's continuing agricultural crisis. In Red China, faced with his own agricultural crisis, Mao Tsetung launched 1958's most audacious political act, ordering his 650 million subjects into human anthills called "people's communes." But at year's end he was compelled to retreat, not because of popular resentment (which did not bother him), but because his scheme was not working at all well...
...airport in Formosa, Barkeley is met by his interpreter, a seductive half-caste named Rita Lo-yang. Without hesitation, the agent makes a heavy play for Rita; though for all he knows her father is Mao Tsetung. Rita, however, takes no advantage of his importunity; she refuses to skip a meeting of the General Staff to have dinner with...
Nehru disapproves of the Russian tendency to seize other countries, following the pattern of the Czars. Nevertheless, he professes to believe that China's Mao Tsetung and Indo-China's Ho Chi Minh are essentially national patriots; he denies that they are controlled by Moscow. When Chinese Communist forces invaded Tibet (TIME, Nov. 6), Nehru protested vigorously. But when Peking agreed to some Nehru proposals for a peaceful Tibetan settlement, he seemed to feel confirmed in his theory that the Chinese Communists will behave like gentlemen if treated right...