“Blowin’ in the Wind” was apparently inspired by Mao Tse-tung’s 1957 statement that “the east wind will prevail over the west wind”—or in other words, Communism is “the wind” in which “the answer” is blowing.
Sorry but not proven in any place in my 150 plus books on him.
He was never a Mao guy. Song had an old folk melody and he said the idea was a piece of paper blowing on the ground and someone picks it up and reads it but then sets it back blowing on the ground again.
In Paris he was angry about the anti-American talk due to the Vietnam protests so he took time to locate an enormous American flag that stretched across the stage behind him and revelled in the boos against him for doing it.
Sing Out magazine interview said “All of you against the war
......” and he abruptly said “What gives you the idea I am as you say against the war. Who told you I was against it?”