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...American women, whom she had been allowed to hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have managed to stay revolutionary at such an elderly age." As for Chou, "We've all decided that he's the sexiest...
Died. Morris ("Two-Gun") Cohen, 81, beefy, swaggering, London-born raconteur and sometime Canadian ranch hand who served for several years as bodyguard to Chinese Republican Leader Sun Yatsen, became a general of the Kuomintang, and after the fall of the mainland in 1949 tried vainly to negotiate a reconciliation between Chairman Mao and Chiang Kaishek; in Salford, England...
...watched it with deep concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign humiliations, and, above all, to push the nation into the modern world. After the Communists moved in to capture the nationalist revolution, a bitter civil war left China in chaos...
...clues as to who was up and who was down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards as not being revolutionary enough, was on the stand in a place of honor. Apparently Mao felt that the prestige of her famed husband was still of some patriotic usefulness to Red China...
...party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou's explicit warning, Red Guards also ransacked the Shanghai home of Madam Sun Yatsen, the widow of the man who founded the Chinese Republic in 1911. The Guards denounced her for living in luxury unbecoming to a citizen of Mao's China. On yet another front, the Guards ordered the disbanding of the 60 million-member Young Communist League. The League has apparently failed to show...