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...Bamboo Curtain fell harshly last week on a century of American good works in China. Red China's Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Kuo Mojo charged: ". . . American imperialism has, over a long period, placed special emphasis on ... cultural aggression in China...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...
...guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some places at battalion strength (600 to 700 men). For the moment they confine themselves to road sabotage, raids on isolated French forts...
China's scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, former president of Peking National University and Ambassador to Washington from 1938 to 1942, is now in the U.S., a refugee from his country's Red rulers. His son, Hu Szu-tu, 28, is still behind the Bamboo Curtain, has already undergone the so-called "new learning" in political science at the North China Revolutionary University in Peking...
...Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...