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Scarves & Parades. In Hong Kong last week, one escaped cadre member had a different sort of story to tell. Lo Chih-ching was nine when the Communists took over Peking, and his first memories of the new regime were of wearing a gay red scarf and marching proudly in parades. By the time he was eleven, he was lecturing his parents on the virtues of Communism. Then, one night during a government anticorruption campaign, a band of party members broke into his house and ransacked it on the pretense of looking for "hidden treasure." It was Lo's first...
...China the government chairmanship has been vacant since Mao Tse-tung stepped down in December (while hanging on to his all-powerful chairmanship of the party). In the rumor mills of Hong Kong the favored candidate to succeed him is Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), 68-year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired...
...needs of Red China, Comrade Soong Ching-ling has a warm and open hearth. When the nation's mass drive for steel started a month ago, the 68-year-old lady had her secretaries build a small furnace in the garden of her Shanghai home. There-said Radio Peking-the secretaries now toil blithely from dawn until evening, producing as much as 341 Ibs. of good-quality steel a day. Last week, according to commune knowledge, the lady joined the workers in the garden, saying: "Making steel also tempers people." As vice chairman of the Standing Committee...
Chiang's statements have a basis in fact. The Communists themselves have broadcast evidence of restiveness-although so far they have always been able to control it. Last January Lo Jui-ching, chief of Red China's secret police, casually admitted that in the preceding two years his men had found it necessary to investigate 18 million workers for "counterrevolutionary thoughts," had smashed 3,000 "revolutionary cliques" and uncovered 100,000 active counter-revolutionaries-5,000 of them in the Communist Party itself...
...planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks of torture, he surrendered. Last April he officiated at the consecration of Tung Kwang-ching of Hankow and Yuan Wenhua of Wuchang...