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...power of Mao Tse-tung is virtually immune to anti-Stalinism, according to Harvard-educated Ping-chia Kuo, because Mao has never allowed his followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people are more rational than religious," the author writes, and "Mao understands the temperament of the Chinese too well to attempt the role of a Fuhrer." Kuo obviously gets carried away when he talks of the "basic humanism" and "tolerance" of the Chinese Communist regime and its "democratic spirit...
...oddest religion in the East, and the one with the most catholic pantheon, is known as Cao Dai. Founded in Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring...
...your careful consideration," he wrote. "I request you again . . . not to allow this great and timely opportunity to slip by." Last week several London newspapers broke out with a rash of rumors of Peking-Taipei negotiations. One story had "General" Morris ("Two Gun") Cohen, a former bodyguard of Sun Yat-sen now visiting Peking, as the intermediary; another had Chiang Ching-kuo pushing the negotiations. At week's end Chiang Ching-kuo had had enough. "The rumors published this week are malicious fabrications," said Chiang Ching-kuo in a written statement that seemed to exclude any likelihood that...
...Among recent visitors' Bulganin, Khrushchev, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Burma's U Nu. Canada's Lester Pearson, Red China's Madame Sun Yat...
...Yatsen, another the wife of Financier H. H. Kung, longtime member of Chiang's Cabinet). Chiang was a revolutionist of unity, not upset. His mission was to weld a nation out of many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three...