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...Reds' way. Under the skilled hand of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, the P.K.I, had risen from virtual oblivion after a 1948 coup attempt to a membership of 3,000,000-not including the 14 million members of its labor and youth fronts. At the suggestion of Chou Enlai, Sukarno had given the green light for a massive People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army. On the teeming island of Java, home...
...current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author, Shanghai Fruit Store Manager Chou Hsin-li, explained how he had solved the problem of selling his melons before they rotted by referring to the writings of Mao Tse-tung for guidance...
...First, Chou studied Mao's treatise on dialectical materialism, "On Contradiction." "I became convinced," writes Chou, "that it is necessary to learn the contradictions existing in the watermelon trade, to expose the contradictions, and to reconcile them." Applied to watermelons, Mao's teachings revealed to Chou the contradictions between the large supply of watermelons in hot weather and the shortage of shop clerks to distribute them. Some of Chou's associates suggested that he should solve the contradiction by reducing the number of melons he put on sale. That was wrong, decided Chou, after studying...
Turning to a third Mao work, "Concentrate a Superior Force to Destroy the Enemy Forces One by One," Chou concluded that "if we worked according to the old method of even distribution of sales forces, we would fail to smash the enemy-the decay of watermelons." Applying Mao, Chou "concentrated overwhelming forces and properly waged the struggle for the watermelon trade." Result: no spoiled melons and a 19,000-yen profit for the season...
...talks that Averell Harriman was conducting with the International Red Cross about U.S. prisoners in North Viet Nam. Rumania's First Vice President Emil Bodnaras was huddling with Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi. Then Bodnaras stopped off in Peking to chat with Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is scheduled to arrive in Bucharest within the month...