Word: tung
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Despite a "seemingly bland acceptance of all that is Russian as being good," reported Newsman Kinmond, "the true attitude of the Chinese is that they must also learn from countries opposed to the Chinese political system." While pundits from Warsaw to Washington were analyzing Mao Tse-tung's recent policy pronouncement on "many roads to Socialism," Legman Kinmond was there to document what Mao means. Example: the government concedes that for at least five more years it must tolerate limited "state capitalism," under which any citizen with more than $800 invested in business property gets 5% interest-plus brainwashing...
...tormented peasantry. Chivied into collective farms, and harried by a series of natural disasters that ravaged 38 million acres of land inhabited by 70 million people (according to Chou En-lai's figures), China's peasants have become increasingly restive. Just how restive was made clear by Tung Pi-wu, President of the Supreme People's Court, who told the People's Congress that during the past year Red China's courts handled 1,000,000 cases of "corruption, theft, assault, public disturbances" and other crimes, most of them involving peasants...
...tung had called for honest criticism of his government and, lo, from Canton to Chungking there was criticism. The walls of Peking University blazed with multicolored placards pointedly demanding "What is more precious than individual liberty?", angrily proclaiming that "Graduate students know very little because they are allowed to study only Russian methods in physics lab." Engineer Li Pei Ying of Tientsin declared: "Intellectuals live a life that is less peaceful than it was under Japanese or Kuomintang rule...
...Service case had been around Washington a long time before Acheson got to it. One spring day in 1945, Service, one of the band of Foreign Service "China hands" who urged the U.S. during World War II to dump the Chinese Nationalists and plump for Communist Mao Tse-tung, was discovered by the FBI in the hotel room of Philip Jaffe. editor of the pro-Chinese Communist magazine Amerasia. The FBI had earlier raided Amerasia's offices, found there about 40 of Service's State Department documents, which he had stamped "Secret" or "Confidential." Service was arrested along...
...that everyone-especially the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe-had become disturbed and confused about Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27, June 24), Red China decided to publish one of them to get the European comrades off the hook. "The author," noted the New China News Agency gravely, "has gone over the text and made certain additions." Among the additions, as a sop to Moscow, was the phrase, "We do not think other countries must follow the Chinese way." And among the tactful deletions was Mao's admission that the Reds had liquidated...