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...Friends Threatened. The evidence of a split in China's Politburo is the off-again-on-again confusion of the current "counter-rectification" campaign, which has caused a vast wave of discontent among China's intellectuals. Originally it was Mao who promulgated the "let all flowers bloom" thesis; in pushing it so diligently, he was mindful of Budapest and the need for some guarded outlet for intellectual ferment (as shown by his many worried references to Hungary in his secret February speech). But no sooner had the flowers of discontent begun to appear as shoots than they were...
...favorites of Mao like Poetess Ting Ling (TIME, Aug. 19) have been threatened with expulsion from the party. Moscow-trained Party Theoretician Liu Shao-chi, often regarded as No. 2 man in the hierarchy of Chinese Communism, was reportedly opposed to Mao's doctrine of letting all flowers bloom when it was first enunciated last year; so, apparently, was Premier Chou Enlai. Both were in the forefront of the counter-rectification campaign when it was unleashed in all its fury this year...
Closer to the Masses. In the current dispute Mao talks of wooing the intellectuals and bringing the party closer to the masses, while Chou and Liu contend that letting all flowers bloom is a serious and heretical mistake, and that the counter-rectification drive must continue until every "rightist" weed has been rooted out. Last week Peng Chen, the mayor of Peking and a protege of Liu Shao-chi's, stated the anti-Mao case with singular vehemence. "The struggle against rightists," said Peng, "is a major question of right or wrong, good or evil. It is a question...
Ting Ling and Chen were apparently among the weeds that popped up under Mao's new policy of letting all flowers bloom. The pruning shears were hard at work last week. For more than two months Radio Peking has been airing a steady rollcall of revolts, rebellions, plots and counter-revolutionary movements. In Fukien province one counter-revolutionary group was said to have created a complete organization including shadow brigades, divisions and an army, worked out detailed plans to rob grain storehouses and assassinate government officials...
...clear enough and one that has troubled the thoughts of many another Briton now recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things on her own initiative which will make people sit up and take notice. As yet there is little sign that such...