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...Lawrence University (Canton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Sincere Cooperation. "Travelers now report seeing Russians all over the country. There are apparently so many of them there that they can no longer do what they used to do-keep to compounds and out of sight. There are Russian colonies now as far south as Kunming and Canton, and there is apparently never a train running in all China on which Russians do not take up a large part of the first-class carriages. Russian consumer goods have begun to appear, and Russian gasoline of inferior quality has made its way as far south as Shanghai, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Rubber Communist | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...witnessed since the Russian Revolution in 1917. Since the Red Terror began in China two months ago, the scene had become so familiar from a dozen broadcasts and newspaper stories that its enormity had almost been lost. Last week, when the terror hit Shanghai, after having engulfed Canton (TIME, May 7) and other cities, the scene was re-enacted, and blatantly broadcast by Communist radio and news services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kill Nice! | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...killing of men was accompanied by the perversion of souls. >A 20-year-old student, Chow Ying-fu by name, whose father had been executed last month as a counterrevolutionary, last week in the journal of the South China United University at Canton expressed his feelings about the event. He sounded like a character from George Orwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kill Nice! | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...business with Mao Tse-tung & Co. suffered a rebuff. British authorities in Hong Kong had seized an oil tanker whose ownership was in dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Business with the Enemy | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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