Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Carter is still stumped about how to get autographs of Communist leaders. His copy of the Aug. 1, 1955 cover, with the Big Four of that time-Eisenhower, Eden, Faure and Bulganin-has been signed by the first three men. But, with that prize collection of signatures on it, Colonel Carter doesn't dare send it to Bulganin. Other issues sent behind the Iron Curtain for autographs have not been returned...
...after day last week Peking's red-pillared Hall of Encompassing Benevolence rang with the synchronized frenzy of the 1,200 trained seals who make up Communist China's National People's Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique...
Docile, and splendid in a silken robe, the captive Panchen Lama, 22, was trotted out to make the right noises for his Communist masters. "Tibet," he declared, "is always China's Tibet...
...mood of the Congress was of a Communist leadership feeling itself beset and bellicose. As an illusion of parliamentary government in action, the People's Congress was, of course, pure sham. But as a kind of distorted fun-house mirror of the condition of China after ten years of Communist rule, the "deliberations" of the Second National People's Congress had their uses...
Speed Gets 'Em. Western specialists on Chinese affairs regard Communist statistics about their great leap forward as blatantly inflated. But instead of modifying them, the Communists multiplied them last week, making vast progress by statistical exhortation. Blandly, Chou En-lai advanced the claim that Red China's industrial and agricultural output increased by 65% in 1958-"a speed which has never been attained and cannot be attained under the capitalist system." No less fantastic were the production targets announced for this year: 18 million tons of steel (up 54% over 1958), 380 million tons of coal...