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...meeting of Communist functionaries in Mukden recently, a stolid, square-faced Communist named Kao Kang, one of the most powerful men in Asia, made one of his frequent harangues to party functionaries. "We . . . are in the front line," he told his lieutenants. "We must make sacrifices...
...Correct Communist. As master of "the Northeast District," spectacled Kao Kang, who is not yet 50, is one of the six vice chairmen of Mao's Peking government. Not Manchurian by birth (he comes from Shensi), he is undisputed No. 1 in Manchuria...
...boss of its 36 million people, little-known Kao Kang is one of Chinese Communism's big men. Not many visitors, even among those welcome in other parts of Red China, are permitted to see Kang's Manchuria,which Peking calls "the Northeast District." But in guarded progress reports, the Communists showed last week how completely the Red future in China hinges on the 443,275-square-mile land of the Manchu, a land nominally Chinese but actually north of the Great Wall and outside of China proper. Examples...
...praise of a special order. He has moved much faster than other district leaders to collectivize farming and socialize industry. In the structure of its government and the conduct of its business, the Northeast has more autonomy than the other five districts making up Red China. It was Kao, rather than a delegation from Peking, who went to Moscow and negotiated the Manchurian-Soviet trade agreement of 1949. Until recently, the Northeast even had its own currency...
...rely on the Russians to teach them how to expand and run their industry and transport. If the Russians do withdraw as promised, thousands of Big Brothers will undoubtedly remain behind -in the guise of technical advisers-to make sure that Manchuria does not stray from the Russian sphere. Kao Kang has, in effect, two bosses looking on, and so far, seems to be satisfying both...