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...ideal planning situation, for just sufficient tension can be maintained to justify the priority given to heavy industry . . . and to convince most workers-without frightening them unduly-that the delay in improving their standard of living is due, not to their own government, but to the threats of the capitalist world outside...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
...Cultural regimentation has emaciated the ancient charm of Chinese life. Capitalist silks and floral robes have been replaced by the proletarian look: narrow blue pants and drab, high-necked tunics for men & women alike...
Sitting down to a breakfast of two boiled eggs with some Communist cronies somewhere in China, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Britain's white-eaved "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told his delighted friends about capitalist misery back home. "In England we never see eggs," he chortled. "I see here you have plenty...