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...gentle hillside in China's Hunan province lay 5,000 skulls, temple to temple and cheekbone to cheekbone. Four years ago, the Japanese had massacred the bearers of these heads; the Chinese government had simply placed the skulls (and neatly heaped bones) on a hill so that all the living might see what war meant. Last fortnight people outside Hunan saw this war memorial...
Besides the firm assurance of lasting peace, 1946's woman had other quests. In the U.S. she scrabbled for dwelling space, for bread (in the spring) for meat (in the fall) and for sugar (at year's end). In China's Hunan Province she sought any food at all (including a whitish clay called, pathetically, "Goddess of Mercy"), but she did not find enough, and thousands starved while relief distribution was immobilized by red tape. In Germany she sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with...
...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...
...Hunan and Kwangsi, China's sadly famed domains of hunger, 16 million people last week were suffering from what UNRRA experts termed "sudden and acute starvation...