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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convoys across the no miles to West Berlin rather than recognize any East German right of control. Even in the 1948 Berlin blockade days, when all Germany was occupied territory of the conquerors, the U.S. never tried that. Actually, since 1955, West German trucks, barges and boxcars have supplied half a million tons a month to West Berlin, plying back and forth under East German controls. Last week, though still not officially recognizing each other, East and West Germany signed three supplemental semiofficial trade agreements, insuring that whatever happens to Allied military convoys, civilian supplies will at least continue...
...China sleep," warned Napoleon nearly a century and a half ago. "When she awakens the world will be sorry." Eying the path along which Mao proposes to lead an awakened China, most of the world, if not yet sorry, is already apprehensive. In Warsaw recently a Communist editor nervously reflected that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist...
...figures, noted a British economist, "defy belief and baffle logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce an all-Chinese jet; their vaunted Manchurian "Detroit" still builds...
...been set up where members are fed free rice. These communal kitchens, plus communal nurseries and "mending brigades," relieve the wives of members from "dull and trivial housework," transform women, too, into all-purpose laborers. (The sole concession made to femininity: pregnant women get a month off work with half pay.) Even the old folks, for whom the commune has established "Happy Homes," are kept busy with scheduled chores, such as feeding the chickens. And in at least one Kwangtung commune, when the inhabitants of the Happy Homes die, their bodies are dropped into a chemically treated pool and converted...
...morning last week Venezuela's Communist Party boss. Gustavo Machado, walked into the Caracas house of Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, leading presidential candidate and (until he started campaigning) head of the ruling junta. Half an hour later, smiling from ear to ear. Machado came out with a document. On it was Larrazábal's signature, officially accepting the support of the Communist Party in the Dec. 7 election...