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Against a background of centuries of retrogressive feudal rule the present Polish government last month made its first attempt at a free election. When the results were in, the government forces, a coalition of communists and socialists, had an almost seven-to-one majority over the opposition Polish Peasant Party. The election was not, as Americans understand the term, a free election. Not even the staunchest government supporters claim that it was. Estimates as to the degree of freedom that was allowed and evaluation of the result had complete freedom been permitted are at best a matter of highly conflicting...
...closing years of the war Americans slowly began to feel the tragedy of China. Bound to the land by centuries of feudal control, divorced from the future by leaders who were not sure whether the enemy lay across the China Sea or in the communes of north China, a nation of 400 millions was slowly dying in the arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil...
...they had in Chinese conflicts since the ancient dynasties. Most of all, if the Chinese people were to rally to this fight, they had to be led by a program of land reform as well as by the personality of the Generalissimo, by a guarantee of release from feudal bondage as well as by promises of a government that seemed paralyzed by its own weight...
...Although inflation and food shortages have recently played into Communist hands, Communism finds its greatest asset in Latin America's feudal, low-pay, high-profit economy which keeps the people in squalor and ignorance...
...divisions, if, by giving this materiel, America were helping a democratic government subdue a rebellious minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing...