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lessons of strength. Strength is like a god
to him; he abhors weakness and sees
Khrushchev's "coexistence" as weakness.
Mao's obsession with brute strength goes
back to his childhood.
When he was 13 years old, there was a
famine in his native Hunan province.
Starving peasants, who were refused help
by a callous governor, broke into the pro
vincial granary and carried off rice to feed
their families. Several were executed and
their heads displayed on poles as a warn
ing. Furiously indignant, young Mao de
manded of his father, "They had a right to
do as they did. Why were they punished?"
Said his father, grimly, "My son, they
were punished for being too weak to de
fend their rights."
Mao has never forgotten that lesson;
even today he occasionally says, "China
never again will be punished for being
weak, as she used to be."
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 He lives a curiously withdrawn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.
His ignorance of the power realities of the
world as a whole, and of the United States
(which he considers a "paper tiger") in
particular, remains a very serious threat
to the peace of Asia and the world. For
Mao Tse-Tung and the American people to
get to know each other better could be a
benefit to both.
But it isn't likely to happen as things
are. Probably Mao Tse-Tung will indeed
learn more than he knows now about the
power of the United States in the course
of time: but most likely he will have to
learn the hard way.
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