Word: chia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared all-out war on the gangs...
Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...
...power of Mao Tse-tung is virtually immune to anti-Stalinism, according to Harvard-educated Ping-chia Kuo, because Mao has never allowed his followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people are more rational than religious," the author writes, and "Mao understands the temperament of the Chinese too well to attempt the role of a Fuhrer." Kuo obviously gets carried away when he talks of the "basic humanism" and "tolerance" of the Chinese Communist regime and its "democratic spirit...
...Certain comrades lack a practical spirit, do not take into account their resources and strength in drawing up plans, and proceed only from subjective aspirations." In a speech at Peking last week, Vice Chairman Chia Tofu of the government's Economic and Financial Committee confessed: "On the whole, our industrial foundations are very weak and our industrial technique backward." Sixty per cent of all Chinese industry is now state-owned, Chia boasted, but obviously the state is having a hard time finding managers who know their jobs. Chia announced a new set of production goals, but did not compare...
...hand-to-mouth nature of the entire industrialization program. Besides sloppy planning, the People's Daily admitted poor designing, serious shortages of skilled labor, general delays in delivery (presumably from Russia), and what was called "poor geological data." The pattern of cuts in mineral production and Chia's announcement of a 500% increase in "prospecting and development operations" indicates that China is a long way from getting tooled for production. Light industry has not even announced its targets lor this year...