The Third World War

From a Cold War Notebook

Tibet. In a quickly mounted ideological counteroffensive, Communists throughout the world explain that the Tibetan revolt was “a serf-owners’ rebellion.” The “most reactionary feudal overlords, owners of eight out of ten Tibetans,” were secretly provoked by “U.S. imperialist agents and Kuomintang stooges” to rise against the democratic and progressive regime that was being built under the benevolent patronage of People’s China. Thanks to the courage of the People’s Army, backed by the honest and patriotic Tibetan majority, the plot was smashed, unity was restored, and “the people of Tibet can continue marching along the prosperous, happy road to socialism.”