Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

gency Airborne Command Post operating from aircraft andan Emergency Sea Command Post operating from warships.These facts demonstrate that the U.S. imperialists are thewildest militarists of modern times, the wildest plotters of anew world war, and the most ferocious enemy of world peace.It is thus clear that the U.S. imperialists have not becomebeautiful angels in spite of Khrushchov’s bible-reading andpsalm-singing; they have not turned into compassionateBuddhas in spite of Khrushchov’s prayers and incense-burning.However hard Khrushchov tries to serve the U.S. imperialists,they show not the slightest appreciation. Theycontinue to expose their own peace camouflage by fresh andnumerous activities of aggression and war, and thus theycontinue to slap Khrushchov in the face and reveal thebankruptcy of his ridiculous theories prettifying imperialism.The lot of the willing apologists of U.S. imperialism is indeeda sorry one.THE QUESTION OF THE POSSIBILITY OFPREVENTING A NEW WORLD WARIt is a fact that the imperialists headed by the UnitedStates are actively preparing a new world war and that thedanger of such a war does exist. We should make this factclear to the people.But can a new world war be prevented?The views of the Chinese Communists on this questionhave always been quite explicit.After the conclusion of World War II, Comrade Mao Tsetungscientifically analysed the post-war international situationand advanced the view that a new world war can beprevented.Back in 1946, in his well-known talk with the Americancorrespondent Anna Louise Strong, he said:235