The Teaching Of Elementary School Gymnastics

БЂњI БЂ¦ would like the whole Party to see and condemn my errors,БЂ«he said in 1930, and pledged to criticize his БЂњserious systematic errorsБЂ«himself in the Party press. Once, at a meeting he attended, one of MoscowБЂ™s German envoys, perhaps spotting a streak of masochism in Chou, said: БЂњAs for Comrade En-lai, we of course should smack him on the bottom. But we donБЂ™t want to kick him out. We must reform him БЂ¦ and see if he corrects his mistakes.БЂ«Chou just sat there and took it. Chou does not seem to have aspired to be No. 1; he was not a program-setter, and seems to have needed orders from above. He could also be long-winded. One of his subordinates in the 1920s remembered: БЂњOnce he started talking, he could not stop. What he said was clear, but not punchy БЂ¦ he would talk as if teaching elementary school children.БЂ«He could talk for seven or eight hours non-stop, boring his listeners so thoroughly that they would doze off. ChouБЂ™s loyalty, combined with undoubted ability, was the main reason Moscow picked him to be chief Party leader from 1928, so it fell to him to deal with the dispute in the Zhu БЂ” Mao Army ...»