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...myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...
...Then the charter passengers were whisked in past customs directly to the plane. Chief among the three Chinese delegates were Huang Tso-mei, head of the official New China News Agency in Hong Kong and rated one of the Communists' top agents by Hong Kong police, and Shih Chih-ang, No. 2 man of Peking's chief foreign purchasing agency. Among other passengers, five listed as Chinese newsmen were actually (according to Western intelligence) unsung but important Communist propaganda and intelligence agents. The plane took off. A few hours later, it crashed into the South China...
Elgin's Marbles. The non-library part of the museum has, among other things, a painting by the 4th century Chinese artist Ku K'ai-chih and one of the world's best collections of Dürer woodcuts and drawings. Its antiquities from Ur and Nineveh are outstanding; its Egyptian collection includes the famed Rosetta stone. The most notable items are the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens and donated by Lord Elgin...