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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the air of a man being sweetly reasonable, oily-tongued Premier Chou En-lai last week offered to negotiate with Nationalist leaders for the "peaceful liberation" of Formosa, i.e., for its surrender to Red China. In short, he was prepared to be nice about it, if the Nationalists would just give up. Chou omitted his usual derogatory references to the Nationalists, blandly offered to meet with the "Taiwan [Formosa] authorities" either in Peking "or other appropriate places." At the same time Chou assured military personnel and civilians on Formosa that they can return to the mainland on visits whenever...
...provinces of eastern Tibet, reported the Statesman, and fighting is raging only 150 miles from Lhasa, Tibet's capital. Both Chinese troops and Tibetan rebels have suffered heavy casualties. Litang has been bombed and several monasteries razed. In the north, fierce, xenophobic Khamba tribesmen are attacking Chinese convoys en route to Lhasa. The Chinese Reds, alarmed by the extent of the uprising, have appealed to the captive Dalai Lama to use his prestige to stop the fighting...
...through "an age of innocence," when the intellectual, in his role as critic, performed only half his function. "It was easy," says Fiedler, "for intellectuals to criticize the black reactionaries and the Ya hoos, but the intellectual's duty was to do more than that-to criticize the en lightened people, to criticize his own side." The dogma of liberalism was that the liberal could do no wrong, and for some the day of disillusionment came only with the fall of Alger Hiss, when it became "impossible any longer to believe that . . . the liberal is per se the hero...
...Establishments Working Girls' Unions." To the embarrassment of Premier Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party, Japan's brothel owners, operating as "The National Venereal Disease Prevention Autonomous Association," showered the city's bars and bordellos with handbills urging pimps and prostitutes to join the government party en masse, to protect their legislative interests from within...
...shake Ford's hand. In Wilmington, Del., General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice, who is worried about FRB's tightening of credit (see box), told stockholders that sales were seriously down, but noted that higher production by other G.M. divisions-notably Electro-Motive diesel and Allison aircraft en gines-would take up some of the slack...