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Also picked for the mission are A. N. Deva, head of India's Socialist Party, which from the start has seen through Mao Tse-tung's agrarian false whiskers; Dr. Shanti Bhatnagar, who negotiated the recent U.S.-British oil-investment program in India; and Leilamani Naidu, who guided the Red Chinese good-will mission around India and was thereafter the pet hate of China's embassy...
Viva Zapata! makes the Tiger out to be a pretty tame cat. According to history, Zapata was not only a great folk hero and agrarian emancipator, but also a cruel, cunning Guerrero Indian whose notorious Death Legion made human torches of the enemy and staked living men to anthills...
...owned Canadian National Railways, North America's biggest railroad, and saved it from bankruptcy. He built the country's national airline (TransCanada) and its countrywide, government-owned radio system (CBC). In World War II, he took command of Canada's industrial effort and transformed the largely agrarian Canadian economy into a high-powered industrial unit. After V-J day, he presided over the return to a well-balanced peacetime economy. He runs Canada's atomic-energy program, directs its national scientific research, sells its billion-dollar grain crop. As boss of all foreign trade...
...everything was divided equally, not only the land but hoes and scythes. Even farm animals were slaughtered so as to be divisible. Last week Mao Tse-tung's Reds made public a study of what happened to 600 Shansi peasant families in five villages during five years of agrarian reform. The report was full of standard propaganda touches-"Drowning of girl babies has stopped," and "Sexual promiscuity has been reduced by 74%"-and it talked glowingly of increased production and increased education, but it contained some frank admissions...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, said yesterday at the Law School's second Coffee Hour that no informed members of the State Department had ever conceived of the Chinese Communist Revolution as an agrarian reform movement. In a talk on American Relations in China, Fairbank said that the Government foresaw the disaster of a civil war in China. "We could not, however, coerce Chiang--in spite of seeing all his wrong decisions...