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...troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party's expert in ideological matters. Excerpts from the transcript...
...Kang Sheng: I have to tell you that you are not here to argue a case. You cannot insist on conditions, and what is more, you cannot insist on bargaining with the proletarian headquarters. The problem of Kwangsi, particularly that of suspension of railway traffic, has been dragging on for two months. I now want to ask you: are you opposed...
...Kang: Do you support the Vietnamese people in their anti-U.S. struggle...
...winter of 1960-61, industrial, development was sharply curtailed, agriculture was in bad shape, and massive imports of foreign grain were begun (imports still continue). Moreover, a number of leaders throughout the country were purged or demoted--although none of them were nearly so important as Kao Kang. To halt the deterioration of the system and to ensure the cohesiveness of leadership, a number of steps were taken...
...second major feature of the Party's attempt to reassert its hold over the society was the strengthening of the Party Control Commission apparatus. The Central Control Commission (and local branches) had been established in 1955 in the wake of the purge of Kao Kang. Although the Commission was staffed by some important leaders, there were few indications that it was very active in the middle and late fifties. In any event, it was clearly not so ominous an organization as those created in the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, since all of its 21 members worked...