Evening star., 1950-12-03
Real Rulers of Red China Hold Powers of War or Peace
BY Howord c. Heyn

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. a
The power to plunge the world
into new and catastrophe war
rests in the hands of about 20
men, the real rulers Of Red China.
The names Of most of these
man who dominate 450 million
Chinese are unfamiliar even in
Asia. And the Red China delega-
tion now at Lake Success seems
almost unknown outside Peiping
and Moscow. -
Furthermore, Communist China S
leaders themselves know little of
the Occident. or its thinking.
The top triumvirate-Mao TIE
'tung, Chou En-lai. and Gen. Chu
Teh-fought for IS years or
longer against warlords, capital
lists. Japanese and Chang Kali
shek. with whose Kuomintang
Nationalist Party) they once
were allied. They went under
ground when Chang purged the
Communists from the Kuomin-
tang in 1927.
Mao and his followers retreated
to North China, set up their So
called agrarian regime, and ulti-
mately pushed Chang off the
mainland. They now run China
with hand-picked generals, vast
ramies and a Politburo orientated
toward Russia. A central council
Of So passes for a congress.
Mao. the No. l man, is chair
man of the central government
OF the Peoples Republic of China.
Chou is premier and foreign min
lister. Gen. Chu is commander-in-
chief Of the armies, estimated now
at S million men.
Mao. Chou and Chu are nem-
hers of the all-powerful Politburo.
The other seven committeeman
are Kang Shen, Lin Pei-Chu. Liu
Shao-chi, Lo Flu. Peng Teh-huai,
Tung Pi-wu and Wen shin
just names in the West and in a
large part OF China as well.
Top generals ars Gen. Lin Piao.
"the Manchurian hammer" COM
manding the 4th Field Army; the
famous one-eyed Gen. Liu Po-
cheng. commander of the End
Field Army, and Gen. Chen vi.
commander of the 3rd Field Army.
- Mao Tse-tung Is Chief.
Mao. who has been called the
potential leader of billion
Asiatics, also carries the titles of
chairman Of. the Chinese Com
munist Party's central committee
and the Politburo, and chairman
Of the military council of the Red
regime.
A quiet, bookish man of ST.
Mao TZe-tung was born a peasant. |
Long before he was exposed to
Communism. Mao staunchly op-
posed the militarists who were
chopping up the supposed Re-
public of China in 1919. BY 1921
he was devout Marxist, organ
lzlng Communist party with ii
others in Shanghai. A branch was
established in 1922 in Human
province of South China. There
he led a peasant revolt in 1924-25.
In 1926 Mao was working close
ly in Canton with Chang Kai-
shek, stanard bearer of the Kuo-
mintang. Barely a year later the
Communists and Chang split. AS
Chang filtered the Reds out of
the party they rallied under Mao. |
The Reds undertook their
famed migration - the '1one
march" across IL provinces to
Shensi province in the northwest.
Their winding retreat covered /
nearly 5000 miles. T
Some 10000 men and women
started. Only 10000 reached the
Yenan valley in 1885. There Mao
put his agrarian theories of land
division and production into prac-
tice. ~
When Chiang's Nationalist
forces collapsed on the mainland |
in 1S49. Mao proclaimed coali-
ton government at Peiping, with
the Communists in control.
Announces New China"
He announced that the "New
China" would lean toward Russia
In "cold" war and fight along
side her in a "hot" war. He
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