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...Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village but are ignorant of conditions five miles away...
With regard to Mr. Lottman's article in today's Review, I should like to mention that, as a resident of the Canton-Massillion area I was able to observe from the outside the effect Music Theatre had on what is in truth a non-intellectual populace, at least if compared with a community such as Cambridge. There was a great deal of good publicity for the group which was circulated on a purely individual basis after Fanny's only moderately successful run and I feel this went a long way toward conditioning audience for The Boy Friend. The company...
...longer keep a stiff upper lip. "Damn them!" he exploded. "They had this thing raging in there, and they tried to keep it a secret. It's inhuman." By "they" he meant Communist authorities of Red China, who had a cholera epidemic for months in Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep the tiny microbe of cholera, Vibrio comma, from slipping through with refugees escaping to Hong Kong or to the nearby Portuguese islet colony of Macao...
...Chinese Reds had been boasting that since they took over the mainland in 1949, there had been no cases of cholera. Campaigns against filth helped to suppress it, but sanitation has recently been neglected. Last week, still making no admission of cholera, Radio Canton reported an all-out campaign against "seasonal diseases...
...lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...