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...three weeks, the National People's Congress met in secret in Peking. In the vast, modernistic Great Hall of the People, 1,027 delegates gathered to hear the new line. Premier Chou En-lai and other top brass were seated beneath a tan, tasseled curtain bedecked with the huge, five-starred Red Chinese seal of state. All foreigners were barred, even representatives of Peking's one dependable European ally, little Albania...
Finally last week, Peking published a summary of Premier Chou En-lai's state of the nation speech to the Congress. Chou announced that China's economy had "begun to take a turn for the better." but this tepid claim was not supported by statistics of any kind, much less by the grandiose and Utopian figures that were trumpeted to the world in 1960. Chou blamed China's food shortage on "serious natural calamities," and dwelt far more on overcoming present difficulties than on striving for future victories...
...Order. Premier Chou submitted a ten-point program to the Congress; even in its vague generalities, translators of Communist doublespeak find admissions of China's severe economic crisis. Instead of the old slogans about "20 years of progress in a single day!", there seemed little hope now of doing more than feeding and clothing the Chinese people and supplying them with the barest necessities. The Communist leaders completely reversed the old policy of giving priority to heavy industry, which had nearly wrecked China's agriculture; the new demand was for "all-round balance" between branches of the economy...
Another Red backdown came on the "bourgeois" front. During the big drive to nationalize China's factories in 1956, their original owners were given monthly interest payments in return for "advice" on plant operation. The payments were scheduled to stop this year. Instead, Chou's program deems it necessary to "unite the patriotic elements of the national bourgeoisie" by prolonging the payments for another three years...
...FORTUNE-size cover brooded an unidentified Oriental, whom informed observers would recognize as Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. Chou was eventually identified in a footnote to the table of contents-and the Oriental influence continued. The first three stories concerned the Far East, specifically Communist China and South Viet...