Word: communings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herded. Red China's first "people's commune," a single unit of 9,300 peasant families organized along military lines, was set up in Honan province six months ago without fanfare. Early in September, apparently pleased with the results of the Honan experiment, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party gave the go-ahead for a nationwide switchover to communes. By last week Peking was boasting that already 90.4% of China's 500 million peasants had been herded into 23,393 communes...
...life that faces Red China's peasantry in the communes is regimented beyond the dreams of ancient Sparta. Each commune, averaging about 21,000 inhabitants, is ruled by a party committee that controls everything from food distribution to funerals. Organized into work brigades, the inhabitants of the communes mostly have no set jobs, can be shunted on a day-to-day basis from farm work to military or industrial duties. Ultimately, private property is to be utterly abolished and already the most "advanced" communes have compelled the peasants to surrender the personal garden plots they were allowed to keep...
Most interesting thing in the seized papers was a L'Express article reporting that since De Gaulle's advent the army in Algeria had purged itself of all senior officers with "liberal" tendencies and had set up Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels...
Constructed over the next 300 years with vast wings and galleries, each in its own varying but harmonious style, the Louvre, completed in 1857, became one of the greatest of royal palaces. Even the vandalism of the Paris Commune, which in 1871 burned down the Tuileries, caused but few tears to be shed. With the Tuileries palace gone, the Louvre acquired one of the world's most breathtaking vistas, extending two miles up the Champs-Elyéees to Napoleon's Arch of Triumph...
Wandering Souls. The church stayed open through the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune, World War I and the Depression; during World War II it was run by a French Protestant pastor for Dr. Williams, who left in 1940 with a flock of refugees...