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Show Page 6' The Utah Independent October, The PaperiThat Dares To Take AiStand 1976 Epitaph for the greatest mass murderer i Continued from page 1 simple peasant who rose to greatness by unifying China for the first time since 1911. That it was Chiang Kai-she- k who unified China, and that Mao was never a peasant, made no difference whatever to the ignorant television commentators and the Communists who prepared their texts. Mao was born December 26, 1893, in Shao-shaHunan Province, son of a retired soldier, wealthy landlord, merchant, and moneylender. In 1936 he told Edgar Snow that his mothers people had been of the gentry. Apparently thinking himself too good to follow in the ways of his hardworking capitalist father, he told Snow: I history... . full-sca- n, learned to hate him. Seventeen at the time of the revolution of October 10, 1911, that eventually gave birth to the Republic of China, young Mao spent six months in the regular Army, then experimented with vocational training, and found hard work was not to his liking. From 1913 to 1918 he studied at the Hunan normal school in Changsha, then took up the teaching of history in a primary school. Soon he came under a the influence of Li anti-Manc- hu Marx-ist-Lenini- st Ta-cha- o, professor of history who was librarian at the National University of Peking. Lis office was known as the Red Cell, and Comrade Mao was quickly given a job on his staff. At about this time Lenin sent an agent named Sneevliet (using the alias Marling) to try to establish a formal Communist Party in China. Sneevliet was an observer at the first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party at Shanghai in July 1921. Young Mao was one of the twelve Moscow stooges who were delegates. They then represented a total of 57 Communists in all China. handful of Communists worked hard to ingratiate themselves s nationalist within Dr. Sun Koumintang (K.M.T.) Party, which was seeking to unify China and end the unequal treaties and concessions arranged by the Manchus with Japan and the Western powers. Mao sought to serve the Communists by working in the K.M.T. By 1923, the Muscovite Communists still had only 100 members, but Lenin sent an agent named Adolf Jaffe to Dr. Suns capital in Canton and arranged a kind of marriage of convenience through which Sun hoped to absorb this handful of hardworking revolutionaries, please Moscow, and learn what he could from the Leninists. Lenin sent two important agents to act as advisors to Sun Yat-seSoviet Vasili advised Bluecher Sun on general military matters, and Michael Borodin advised him on political strategies. Borodin, curiously, had been taken from Russia as a child and educated in Chicago public schools. He was running a business school in Chicago at the time of the Communist revolution, returned to Russia, and as a trusted agent of the Comintern had served the Reds in Mexico, Turkey, and now Canton. A third agent sent in by the Comintern was U.S. citizen Earl Browder. Accepting badly needed millions in loans from the U.S.S.R., Dr. Sun reorganized the K.M.T. in Canton along lines recommended by Moscow. It was 1924, and there were still only 1,500 Reds in all China. But in late 1923 the Chinese President had sent his trusted friend Chiang k to Moscow for three months to see, and evaluate, the Communists in action. Chiang returned with an anxious warning for his friend and teacher. In a lecture, Dr. Sun now called the Marxist class struggle a kind of social disease, and described Marx as a social pathologist." He said the Three Principles This Yat-sen- n. Kai-she- north, Moscow ordered Chiang released in return for a united front that would keep Mao from being destroyed. The K.M.T. accepted. war By 1937, there was with Japan, which had seized Chinas coastal cities and the Yangtze Valley including Nanking: In 1938, Mao is: sued a secret directive to his commanders declaring: The Red Army does not fight for the sake of righting. It rights in order that it may carry on propaganda among the masses, organize them, arm them, and set up Communist regimes for them. Without these objectives, righting would be meaningless and the Red Army would have no justification for its existence. And so, with Chinese patriotism at fever pitch because of the war with Japan, Maos forces reached 400,000 by 1940. But they did little righting. With 1.5 million Japanese ing troops in China, Mao formed his political officers: Our determined policy is 70 percent development, 20 percent compromise, and Or10 percent right the Japanese. dered into battle against Japan in 1941, Maos New Fourth Army turned south instead. It was at this point that America was at last drawn into the war of the Koumintang must never be conquered by Marxism. Mao was meanwhile maneuvering within the K.M.T. as a specialist in 'agitation and propaganda while filling various posts as a top Communist. He knew little of the Leninist strategies but he was a loyal Communist and did what his Moscow-base- d masters told him to do. k was now working Chiang to develop the K.M.T. Army and was soon put in charge of the new Whampoa Military Academy at Canton to train a loyal officer corps. Moscows man Bluecher was on hand, of course, and arranged to have Chou En-lmoved into the political department there to watch the patriotic Chiang When President Sun died March 12, 1925, without having united China, the Reds feared the rise of Chiang. They attempted a serious uprising in Shanghai under Chou, and the K.M.T. leadership tried unsuccessfully to expel the major troublemakers, but as intrigue followed intrigue the Reds held on to their posts. When they tried k in a bid for to kill Chiang down and he cracked in Canton, power released captured documents that exposed Communist plans to overthrow the K.M.T. and seize the Republic. k had his By 1926, Chiang Army in sufficient shape to strike northward and accomplish the unification of China that the K.M.T. and had long President Sun Yat-seAs he won after victory victory sought. the Reds used the resulting flood of patriotism to recruit Communists. A Red coup was arranged with headquarters set up in the Communist stronghold of Hankow. Returning in force, Chiang moved his capital to Nanking in March of 1927, purged the Reds from the K.M.T., and sent Borodin, Browder, and Moscows other agents packing. Mao was ordered by his Russian bosses to organize soviets in the countryside and prepare for guerrilla war. By 1928, Chiang had united China for the first time since 1911. As he defended Chinese territory from the Russians at the Manchurian border, Mao was working with local bandits and using terror to raise a large guerrilla force in Hunan and the Kiangsi hills. By 1930 he had 60,000 badly .led and poorly armed troops. k and his K.M.T. Chiang China during the past few years," states an missionary, are without equal in any age of people, barbarous as they may have been." "All the horrible, most horrible particulars that could be told about this, " says an officer of the regular army writing from Kinan in Kiangsi, would never give a complete idea of the reality; bodies flayed, hearts tom out, insides scattered about, victims burned alive . . . . not to mention the atrocities against the women. There are not enough words, nor words strong enough, to stigmatize these outrages !" The Shanghai Journal is further quoted as giving the record of Communist outrages in Hupeh alone in 1931-3- 2 as "Persons put to death, 164,551; persons disappeared, 946,000; persons kidnapped, 78,000; houses burned, 300,000 . . . . As Robert Welch comments in his important book, May Gdd Forgive Us: It is worth noting, , too, that these figures of the Shanghai' Journal, far from being mere guesses, could have been surprisingly accurate. For the only reason you flay a man, strip off his skin and let him die in horrible agony, instead of shooting him or chopping his head off, is that you want to make widely known to other people what will happen to them if they do not fall in line. And the Chinese Communists have always made it a practice to publicize, with names and details, their executions, mass murders, and other atrocities, in order to make terror a more effective weapon in their program. As Mao put it in 1927, for a Communist revolution to succeed, it is necessary to create terror. But not until late 1933 was the K.M.T. again able to move against the Reds in substantial force. Seeing they would be routed, Moscow ordered her eye-witne- Kai-she- ai Kai-she- Kai-she- n' Kai-she- forces were nonetheless now in position to finish off the Reds and end this Soviet threat to their rule. Un- fortunately for China, the Japanese picked exactly this time to seize Mukden and move in force to capture territory. As Chiang mobilized against the invaders, the Reds built their power in Kiangsi and declared themselves the Chinese Soviet Republic. Late in 1932, the following dispatch appeared in the London Morning Post : The outrages committed by the Red Bandits in several provinces of ss hnq The search farhate ia Red Chiaa. . puppets to run for the north. In the long march to Yenan that followed, the Communists lost 95 percent of their strength, being reduced to a ragtag force of 5,000. The chief problem for the patriotic Chiang, however, was the presence of the Japanese on the mainland, and he and the K.M.T. were doing everything in their power to defend their country. Mao began recruiting again by calling for a united front against the invader. Chiang was not fooled, but in December of 1936 he was captured and held hostage by a disloyal field commander in league with the Reds. Knowing that only k could muster suffiChiang cient strength to keep the Japanese from securing China and then turning Kai-she- le Tse-tun- and Communists in the U.S. Government were added to Maos allies in Moscow. The fact is that Insiders of the malignant Conspiracy for a New World Order are as certainly responsible for the Communist occupation of mainland China as they were for sealing the success of the Soviet takeover by sending Leon Trotsky from New. York to Russia on a passport supplied by Woodrow Wilson. Earlier assaults on Chinese interests, at the Versailles Conference, had nearly driven Dr. Sun Yat-seinto the arms of Moscow. Chiang had saved the Republic, however, and expelled the Communists from his party. Had it not been for the war with Japan he would have finished the Chinese Reds long ago. Now, however, he would be betrayed by Communists in the capital of his American ally. Key operatives in this venture would include George C. Marshall, Vinegar Joe Stilwell, John Paton Davies Jr., John Stewart and idenService, Owen Lattimore tified Communists Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, John Carter Vincent, Edgar Snow, Agnes Smedley, Solomon Adler, Anna Louise Strong, and Virginius Frank Coe. Through a coterie of Communists and sophisticated conspirators supRockefrom the ported by $2,500,000 feller Foundation which was pumped into a Communist Front called the the Institute of Pacific Relations Conspiracy was able to control almost all information about China reaching both 'Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Virtually all of these key China advisors were members of the I.P.R. whose leadership contained more than fifty men since exposed under oath as Communist agents. Their objective was to destroy our ally Chiang k and replace him with Communist Mao The whole of America was subjected to propaganda designed to produce this result. Edgar Snow, for example, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, produced some sixty articles promoting Mao and other Communists while attacking our Koumintang allies. It later developed that not only was Snow a close friend of Mao but both he and his wife were members of the Communist Party. During 1942, at the suggestion of George Marshall, General Vinegar Joe Stilwell took over as eommander of U.S. forces in China. Four years be- n Kai-she- Tse-tun- Tse-tun- g, g. |