Foreign News: RED CHINA'S BIG FOUR

Of the select few who rule Red China, these jour share the ultimate power:

Mao Tse-tung, 61. chairman of the Politburo, the Central Committee, the Government and Military Council—in short, the dictator. The son of a well-to-do peasant, he attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. tirelessly organized China's peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to triumph in China. He had the opportunism to capitalize on Japan's aggression: "Our determined policy is...

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