Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your people?" The shepherd rises, flexes his muscles, recognizes...
...over a year he shifted from town to town, usually in the rugged, desolate mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...
...Democracy. What kind of master will Mao be to China? For years, the Communists (aided by many U.S. correspondents) have faithfully fostered the story that Mao and his Chinese are just "agrarian reformers." The story went around Washington that, during a Moscow conference, Molotov once cracked to an American: "The Chinese Communists are not Communists. They are oleomargarine. They are imitation Communists...
...regime by birth, even though they may never have engaged in active opposition. "Class enemies," on the other hand, may come from a long line of workers or peasants. They include all the known antiCommunists, regardless of origin. Their eventual destination, when Rakosi's overworked policemen get around to them, is the jail, the concentration camp, or the crematory...
...years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently Mrs. Fry noticed that the ground around her repaired kitchen had been sinking. That gave the bomb disposal experts a clue to the real culprit...