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...Chinese song-and-dance team in Moscow was fine onstage, said Sovietskaya Kultura, but was positively offensive on a visit to the Lenin Museum: they giggled, yawned and spat. » Red Chinese crowds in the Manchurian port city of Dairen stoned and spat on Soviet sailors, Izvestia angrily reported. City officials even posted signs outside parks and nightspots: "Entrance forbidden to foreigners...
...materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough to patch my pants," growled one refugee who fled to Hong Kong. Faced with a leather shortage, there is a desperate search for new material to make shoes. One Dairen factory is trying to make shoes from fish skins...
...last year, steel production 67% and coal production 72%. Ironore production, added Peking, stood at 76.5 million tons, three times the figure for all of 1958. And just to show that nothing is too small to be transformed by the Marxist miracle, Mao's drumbeaters reported that near Dairen in Manchuria there stands a marvelous tree laden with 12,175 apples-somehow counted though still unpicked...
...Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
...Stalin] said that he was entirely willing to have Dairen a freeport under international control, but that Port Arthur was different. It was to be a Russian naval base, and therefore Russia required a lease. I suggested to Marshal Stalin that he take the opportunity to discuss this matter at once with the President, which he thereupon did. The President agreed to Marshal Stalin's revised proposal...