RED CHINA: The Unsettled Question

Now that everyone—especially the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe—had become disturbed and confused about Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27, June 24), Red China decided to publish one of them to get the European comrades off the hook. "The author," noted the New China News Agency gravely, "has gone over the text and made certain additions." Among the additions, as a sop to Moscow, was the phrase, "We do not think other countries must follow the Chinese way." And among the tactful deletions was Mao's admission that the Reds had liquidated 800,000 Chinese.

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