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...made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils of free enterprise. Nanking's Hsinhua Daily took aim at the "lawless bourgeoisie" for using "sugarcoated bullets" in its "attack against the working class." Apparently the remaining shop owners, who are forbidden to close up their businesses while the government exacts a confiscatory tax on all their sales, are guilty of all manner of capitalistic vices. Sample sugar-coated bullet: "evilly increasing salaries." The evil of a wage raise, Hsinhua Daily explained, is "in eroding the thinking of the . . . workers, in softening...
...both organizations feel that they can raise more money through independent campaigns. In the case of the heart association, there is special reason for optimism: President Eisenhower may become a symbol for the crusade against heart disease, just as Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolized polio. Although the association has sternly forbidden any official use of the Eisenhower name, charitarians estimate that the President's heart attack will be worth at least $4,000,000 in additional revenue for the association...
...broadcast from Tiflis, Georgia reported the execution of six former NKVD interrogators, the imprisonment of two others, for having made "false charges and employed criminal prosecution methods strictly forbidden by Soviet law" against "honest cadres who were loyal to the Communist Party and the Soviet government." Among the victims named: Sergo Ordzhonikidze. "The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze . . . Later, terrorist acts of violence were committed against members of [his] family and nearest friends." Motive for the murders: "The accused helped Beria hide his criminal past and his odious deception of party and government, and [destroyed] those...
...pleading for protection from goons lurking near the polling places-and all night long Mrs. Keith listened to the pleas and sometimes to the sound of gunfire, as the aroused voters fought their way to the ballot boxes. Later she followed the bare foot, wondering peasants into the hitherto forbidden Malacañan Palace to sit admir ingly at the feet of their new President. Author Keith suffers from the conviction that every least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George is of overwhelming interest, and she records their conversation in some of the least...
...these days of precariously narrow majorities in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the 75 Socialist votes controlled by Italy's fellow-traveling Stalin Prize winner Pietro Nenni have always been regarded as forbidden fruit, something to be enviously eyed but eventually rejected. The price always looked too high. Last week Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, one of Italy's shrewdest politicians, embarrassed the Christian Democratic government of Antonio Segni by offering his votes free...