Word: chen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clanged, and bunting fluttered from every sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...
Died. Wu Te-chen, 65, onetime Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of Nationalist China (1948-49), secretary general of the Kuomintang Party (1941-49), and mayor of Shanghai (1932-37); after long illness; in Taipeh, Formosa...
...Eastern Europe has plummeted to about half what it was in 1938. Franco-Russian trade talks are slated for next week, and Bernard de Plas, a right-wing businessman who believes in "trade regardless of political regimes," is flying to Peking, via Moscow, as the guest of Nan Han-chen, president of the People's Bank of Red China...
...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...capital of Peking took the lead. Mayor Peng Chen held a public trial of half a dozen "corruption culprits" from the business community and had them executed. Shop assistants were encouraged to spy on their employers; special post-office boxes were opened to receive written accusations. In the campaign's early stages, Mayor Peng announced that some 32,000 Peking trading houses were guilty of at least one of the Five Antis, and that 80% of the government's dishonest civil servants had been tempted by "depraved merchants...