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Mao has chosen as his personal residence the traditional power-center of the Chi nese nation the Forbidden City, the inner quarter of the ancient imperial capital, Peking. He lives a curiously withdrawn life, often shutting himself up for weeks or months, reading, studying, and contem plating. He still travels in the countryside, however, and makes a point of mingling with the people and asking personal ques tions, though there is an increasing air of aloof superiority about him. BUT more and more, the man is becom ing mixed with the legends that have grown up about him. Of the great political leaders of today, Mao Tse-Tung is certain ly the one about whom hard facts are most difficult to establish. He disdains ostentation. His "uniform" is a gray jacket, buttoned to the throat, and a plain cap such as a London taxi driver might wear. When at home, he lives with his family his wife and two teen-age daughters who are learning bal let dancing in a lovely little one-story marble palace with a roof of traditional imperial-yellow tile, built on a terrace fac ing one of the three lakes which lie in the gardens behind the New China Gate. This palace has a romantic name out of the past it is known as the Palace of the Fragrant Concubine. The Emperor Ch'ien Lung built it two centuries ago to house the Princess Hsiang Fei, a Turki lady of extraordinary beauty whom the Emperor brought to Peking as part of the spoils of war from his conquest of Turkistan. Mao, who, as I already remarked, has given China its first strong centralized government since Ch'ien Lung's day, ap parently also shares that Emperor's taste for vivacious, intelligent women. He has been married three times, discounting the legend of a child-bride forced upon him by his father at the age of 14. His present wife, Lan P'ing, is a movie actress from Shanghai whom Mao mar ried in Yenen in 1939. The two daughters are her children. Mao also has a grown son by his first wife, Yang K'aihui, daugh ter of his philosophy professor at Peking University, whom he courted in his stu dent days. She was killed in 1928 during a Kuomintang purge of Communists and their relatives. Three other children presumably born of his second wife. Ho Tzu-chun, a former schoolteacher, from whom Mao was di vorced in 1937 had to be left with friend ly peasants during the hardships of the famous Long March; such were the in ternal disorders of that time that no trace of them could be found afterward. Mao Tse-Tung knows personal bereavement In person, Mao is somewhat above the average Chinese height, slightly stooped, deeply sun-tanned with thick hair but a receding hairline (the name Mao means "hair," so baldness would be unbecom ing!). He is heavier than he used to be, but his physical strength is considerable. It was only a few years ago that he in sisted to the horror of his staff on swimming the 1,400-yard-wide Yangtze River to prove that it could be done despite the treacherous currents. There is indeed an uneasy feeling spreading throughout much of free Asia that Mao Tse-Tung's belief in his ability to do the impossible has wider hori zons than anyone has yet understood. It might help if Mao's own horizons of factu al knowledge especially of the United States were a good deal broader than they are. Mao has occasionally told visitors that he would like to tour the United States some day. There is something to be said for such a visit if it ever comes within the realm of practical politics. Mao Tse-Tung, with China's enormous manpower, is dangerous enough today. To morrow say in three to five years he may have acquired at least a few nuclear weapons and become even more dangerous. 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