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...broods a character in André Malraux's Man's Fate, undoubtedly reflecting the author's own vision in the 1920s when he spent two years in Canton as propaganda commissar for the Kuomintang, which was then an alliance that included the Communists. Last week, for the first time in 40 years, Malraux was back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact...
...Minister of Cultural Affairs on doctor's orders to take a long, relaxing sea voyage. He boarded the steamer Le Cambodge, and his destination was Japan. But, at Singapore, he left the ship, caught a plane to Hong Kong. Next thing anyone knew, he was in Canton, asking to see the Whampoa Military Academy, where he had an office...
...spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most of Ho's pupils quickly learned to do their homework, but teacher...
...real estate manager. Major oil companies last year earmarked 65% of their capital expenditures for sprucing up and enlarging existing stations and for building handsome landscaped new ones. Shell, Sun Oil and Gulf are combining many of their new stations with restaurants, and Sun has opened a station in Canton, Ohio, with a built-in, drive-in branch of the Harter Bank & Trust Co. In Des Moines and Fort Worth, Continental Oil is building drive-in grocery stores next to new filling stations...
...Canton, Ohio...