Word: canton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge. Then, last fortnight, apparently convinced that he would not apply for permission to leave, the Communists organized a mass meeting at which his "punishment" could be "popularly and unanimously demanded." The next day, soldiers marched the bishop through the streets before taking him off-presumably to Canton-to await trial. The usual mob of students was on hand with the usual mob clichés: "Down with Bishop Ford! Down with American imperialism...
...outlook for the golf enthusiast, however, is not completely black, for some of the surrounding clubs are of championship calibre. Foremost among there is Ponkapoag Golf Course near Canton. Slightly more than a 20-minute drive from the Square, Ponkapoag is reached by driving along Memorial Drive to Route 1, turning off Route 1 when it intersects Route 138, and following Route 138 for eight miles...
...Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days in Kwongning hsien . . . -Authorities in Nanhoi hsien are carrying out their movement to clear the local prison of its overflowing inmates. About 20 are being taken out each day . . . for execution . . . More than 300 have been executed during the current month . . . The Military Control Committee of Yanping hsien yesterday carried...
Your questions about "starvation," living conditions, and sanitation are quite easily answered. In Canton I saw two beggars. Up to now, after 3 1/2 months in Peking, I haven't seen one beggar. I made it a point to ask each tricycle driver (taking the place of rickshaws) his opinion of the present government. Without exception, everyone of them happily answered that it is now much better. Their main reasons are that there are no more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned...
...Widespread starvation" is now non-existent. Beggars used to be literally lying all over the streets, I remember from my childhood. Now there are even less in Peking than in New York. Canton has a few, but Canton is not as well administered and was liberated later than Peking. During last year's competition to see which city is best administered, Peking received, I think, five red stars. Tientsin also received five stars, but Canton received none. Hankow, a little worse than Canton, received the black star. About the worker's attitude, on the train leaving Canton we tried...