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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951
Red China's Leaders Have Vanished; No One Around To Make Decisions
When a strong man disappears, there is an inevitable fight to grab the power he wielded. That struggle may be going on in Peiping right now. Mao's logical successor would be Chou En-Lai, who holds the high-sounding titles of premier and foreign minister. But in any Communist set-up the man who has the titles doesn't necessarily wield the power. Trotsky was the logical successor to Lenin but an obscure fellow named Stalin got the job.
Evidence increases every day that something has gone wrong with the leadership of Red China. Some important decisions need to be made and there doesn't seem to be anybody around to make them.
In the last two months there have been at least three important functions in Peiping from which Mao was absent. It was sort of like President Truman missing three diplomatic receptions in Washington. Nobody offered any explanations as to why Mao was absent. The health of
So far as the outside world is concerned, the boss has disappeared. Mao Tze-Tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist party and "the Stalin of Peiping," apparently has been out of circulation for about two months. He probably is seriously ill—he has a faulty heart and tendency toward tuberculosis—and there is even an outside chance he may be dead. One report is that he was sent to Moscow for medical treatment.
Mao kept the Red revolution going in China almost single-handed. He held the Communist party together when its fortunes had hit bottom, he organized the army that drove Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek off the Chinese mainland, and most important, he is the man who has been dealing with Stalin.
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the leader is a subject that rarely is dealt with on the Communist radio.
The indecision of the Chinese Communist high command has United Nations intelligence officers puzzled. In Korea one part of the Red army will be retreating at the same time another part of it is moving south toward the battlefield. Large accumulations of ammunition and weapons-probably brought from Russia at great expense and labor—occasionally are abandoned willy-nilly. And yet United Nations field commanders anticipate another big Red offensive this spring.
For several weeks a United Nations Good Offices committee has been trying to get in touch with the rulers of Red China to find out whether there is any chance for a negotiated settlement of the war. They get no answer. Peiping would have nothing to lose by listening to a proposal because it could always say no and continue the war.
There is a small-scale rebellion against the Communists under way in China, but it is being repressed by hundreds of executions. There is no sign the Communists are about
to be overthrown. But there are signs that there is an absence of a strong hand at the tiller and as a result the ship is sailing a wobbly course.
KU Faculty Members Judge Contests
Five faculty members of the department of music education spent March 30 and 31 in Dodge City and Lindsborg judging high school music festivals.
The following were in Dodge City: James Nickerson, associate professor of music education, and Clayton Krebhlie, Marcus Hahn, and Leo Horacek, instructors in music education.
Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, judged in Lindsborg.
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Positions Open For Medical Personnel
Most of the positions are at the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City. Medical technicians are also employed at the University of Kansas, Kansas State college, Norton Sanatorium for Turberculosis, and other state hospitals. Salaries range from $191 to $294.
Merit examinations for medical technicians will be given, Saturday, May 12, Charles S. Manley, acting director of the Kansas department of civil service, said today.
Applications must be submitted by April 25. Application forms and copies of the examination announcement may be obtained by writing or telephoning the Department of Civil Service, 801 Harrison street, Topeka.
Mr. Manley explained that because of the shortage of people trained in this field, applications would be accepted from all over the United States instead of from Kansas residents only.
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North American Waterfowl Increases During 1950
Washington (U.P.)—North America's waterfowl population increased during 1950, offsetting the pre- year's losses, the fis hand wildlife service reported today.
Director Albert M. Day said the 1951 annual inventory showed "that the waterfowl populations have recovered from the decrease of a year ago and at this time stand at a level approximately equal to that of 1949."
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