Word: guillian
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...country's cultural heritage. Ancient operas have been rewritten along Marxist lines; the nation's scholars are being silenced. The government's main objective now is to turn out 60,000 to 70,000 technical specialists a year. "China's intellectuals," reports French Correspondent Robert Guillian of Le Monde, just returned from China, "are frightened and subservient, half scared out of their wits. They are men in a deep malaise...
...prestige of the intellectuals has been strong enough to stave off any attempt at mass annihilation. The government's policy has been rather to pick off the remaining recalcitrants one by one. The policy seems to be working only too well. "It's a steamroller," says Correspondent Guillian, "so heavy no man can escape the crush." Concluded Frank Moraes of the Times of India after a tour of China: "For the first time I realized what for many years I had sensed vaguely but never grasped. To have your body imprisoned behind prison walls is degrading...
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