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...immediate target of Soviet wrath is Spanish Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo. In tones reminiscent of Moscow's strident broadsides against Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in the late 1940s and '50s, and China's Mao Tse-tung since the '60s, the Soviet weekly New Times blasted Carrillo, his new book Eurocommunism and the State, and the whole notion that Marxist societies can be established in Western Europe that would be independent of the Soviet Union...
...also provided some unexpected, and serious problems. In 1949, following his years working in the Office of War Information and as special assistant to the American ambassador in Chungking, Fairbank wrote in his alumni report, "During the last 20 years, while Chiang Kai-shek has been fighting Mao Tse-tung, I have been trying to read Chinese and by coordinating my activities with theirs in this way, I now find myself in a rising market for China specialists." Within two years, however, that market took a sharp nosedive when Rep. Patrick McCarran's Internal Security Committee decided that the mission...
...thing that impressed Nixon about China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom he met in 1972 and again last year, seven months before Mao's death, were his "very fine, delicate hands." He had been "a tough, ruthless leader, but it didn't show in his hands." Chairman Mao, Nixon recalled, had a "devilish sense of humor." However, it was apparent in their first meeting that the Chairman had suffered a "partial stroke" and had to be helped around by "these rather pretty Chinese girl aides...
...photograph above is from TIME'S Chiang Ch'ing cover story. The lower one is from a commemorative issue of China Pictorial, November 1976, on Mao Tse-tung...
...Communists-and Chiang Ch'ing-were headquartered at Yenan until 1947, when a Nationalist attack finally dislodged them. More than two years of bitter civil war followed, ending in the rout of Nationalist forces and their retreat to Taiwan. On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Tse-tung stood atop Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace and proclaimed the People's Republic of China...