Word: jens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading agitators of the 1948 Communist revolt was an unsavory little Chinese gambler named Wang Jen-shu, then 39, author of a pamphlet titled "How to Overthrow the Present Government and Achieve a Communist State." Last year, Wang came back to Indonesia as Red Chinese ambassador. He set about importing professional organizers (as part of his embassy staff), reviving the native Communist Party, building up what neighboring governments regard as Communist headquarters for Southeast Asia...
...Communists' economic score in almost two years' control of most of China's mainland? Their greatest achievement has been to check inflation, for a while at least. By heavy taxation and by what amounted to capital levies, the Communists balanced the budget; for weeks the jen min piao, or people's banknotes, stood unusually firm at the official rate of 3,880 to $1 Hong Kong. About a month ago, however, the rate jumped on the black market to 4,600 J.M.P. to $1 Hong Kong. This 20% increase is attributed to the costs...
...little Chinese named Wang Jen-shu arrived in Jakarta five months ago from Peking to be Communist China's first ambassador to the new Republic of Indonesia. Local Reds gave Wang a nickname"Pak Barhen" (Uncle Barhen), Indonesian equivalent of "the common...
...Chinese ambassador boasted to Indonesians that he had once been a teacher, a writer and a critic, and a secretary to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Uncle Barhen's past seemed to be catching up with him. Indonesians had discovered that he was the same Wang Jen-shu who wrote a book in 1948 advocating the overthrow of the Indonesian government on the ground that it did not represent the people. President Soekarno's government has been rounding up copies of the book. It is waiting for the ambassador to make just one more boner before asking Uncle...
...years in Peiping, the American Fathers of the Divine Word have operated the Roman Catholic Fu Jen University (current enrollment: 1,100). Last week, Peiping radio announced that Fu Jen had become the first of China's 15 missionary-backed universities to be seized by the Communist government. Education Minister Ma Hsu-lun explained blandly: "The government decided to take over ... to protect the people's rights...