Word: tung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's pudgy Mao Tse-tung had made the long trip from Peking to Moscow to pay fealty to Joseph Stalin. A Soviet diplomatic mission met Mao at the Manchurian border, put him on the Trans-Siberian railway, escorted him all the way to Moscow (ten days, some 3,500 miles). So far as is known, it was Mao's first trip outside his native land...
...whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the Chinese Communists, busy with staggering internal problems, are not likely soon to launch an expansionist policy in Asia; 2) Red Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung is likely to become an Asian Tito. Therefore, argue the advocates of recognition-many of them in the U.S. State Department, which is still trying to figure out a U.S. policy for Asia-the Chinese Communists ought to be officially acknowledged as China's rulers, get some form of U.S. assistance...
...TIMOTHY TUNG Columbia...
...Pointing Both Ways. Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...
Could Formosa be held? The answer seemed to be that it could, and with a relatively small force. Ninety miles of water lie between Formosa and the mainland. Mao Tse-tung has no navy, no air power, no amphibious forces. Its occupation would demonstrate to all of Asia the determination of the U.S. to stand fast. So ran the argument...