Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a kind of "State of the Union" speech to Red China's dummy Parliament, Premier Chou En-lai insisted that the Communists have achieved "basic victory in our socialist revolution"-partly by executing "16.8% of the counterrevolutionaries dealt with." Nonetheless, Chou went on, there were "remnants of counter-revolutionaries still trying to engage in wrecking activities." There were even people, he conceded, "who keep complaining because China's living standards are so low, and keep praising the American way of life...
...acre apiece-a painful contrast to free South Viet Nam, heavily U.S.-subsidized, where any peasant can get seven acres of fertile ground from the government for the asking. Outright rebellion flared in the predominantly Catholic province of Nghean (TIME, Nov. 26), and China's Premier Chou En-lai paid a hurried trip to Hanoi, obviously on a troubleshooting errand like the Russians' trips to Warsaw and Budapest at about the same time. To the Central Committee, Truong confessed "many mistakes and shortcomings committed with disastrous effects." and was downgraded to vice chairman of the reparations campaign...
...thinking, only one side is open to persuasion, after which the persuaded must accept "unity." If the terror is over in Red China (as Western experts largely agree), it has been followed by a form of persuasion known as "reform through labor." Chou En-lai declared recently: "More than 80% of criminals detained have been given work in agriculture or industry," i.e., as slave labor...
...representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia's economically powerful Chinese community. Recently, shocked by Russian intervention in Hungary, Sihanouk told his people that Communism is servitude, added: "Polish and Hungarian people have preferred to shed their blood...
After ten days in Red China, a "goodwill delegation" of eight Japanese Socialists last week flew home to Tokyo with visions of such sugarplums as increased trade and a nonaggression pact between the two countries. "Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai met us, warmly shook our hands and patted our backs," glowed one delegate. "The results obtained are just too numerous to mention." Not so starry-eyed was Tokyo's daily Yomiuri Shimbun, which called Mao's proffered sweetmeats "cakes drawn on a piece of paper. Nobody can taste them...