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...when it was popularly believed that the Red Chinese were the sponsors of a humane land reform movement. Canada in 1950 was all set to recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists...
...book is clumsy but powerful, inept at creating characters but bursting with action...
...Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky trial...
...strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have given Ives a close fight. But Cashmore, Borough President of Brooklyn, who is an intense but relatively inept politician, hasn't a chance...
...feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...