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...economic history at the London School of Economics, has come to this conclusion from reading student examinations. Last week, in an essay called The Treatment of Capitalism by Historians? * Ashton told what some of these ideas are-and roundly denounced them as a tired old libel of the capitalist system...
...step forward is necessary," said Peking's People's Daily, ". . . to combat this spontaneous capitalist trend of the peasants." Peking has long complained that China's peasants are slow to hate their "class enemies," i.e., the surviving landlords who still own an acre or more. Judging by the reports of travelers reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also...
...decided the time had come to revive the sport on its grand old scale. Under the sponsorship of a leading Saigon newspaper and local businessmen, a seven-day race from Saigon through the Mekong Delta and back was planned. Communist leaders in the south damned the race as a capitalist attempt "to induce the youth of the nation to debauchery," and ordered their followers to sabotage it. The sponsors forehandedly asked the protection of the Vietnamese army along the route...
After the 6.2-mile cross-country race, the other competitors (from Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) were still gasping. The Russians entered five girls, and they flashed across the finish line in order, 1-2-3-4-5, a full four minutes ahead of the nearest fun-loving capitalist...
what perplexes me, however, is how the respective spies and agents operated and what they transmitted. Could it be that our Red spies and agents transacted business with capitalist Beria and thus betrayed United States bolshevism? Or did the Beria spies contact Washington Communists, thus betraying Moscow capitalism...