Word: macao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only 600 yards across the West River from the Portuguese colony of Macao lies a Red Chinese people's commune on Lappa Island, and across this narrow stretch of water last week could be seen a chilling glimpse behind the Bamboo Curtain...
...Others: Portuguese Goa and Macao, Britain's Hong Kong...
Across Southeast Asia, thousands of overseas Chinese displayed new loyalty to the red, white and blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great...
...most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past two months. Communist border guards, nominally under orders to shoot anyone attempting to flee Red China, now look the other...
Though Portuguese authorities in Macao denied that any such flight had ever occurred and other officials expressed extreme skepticism, both Bush and Sullivan stuck to their stories. Their watches were all they had as proof. Naturally, they said, they could not produce the father, the boy or the beautiful girl...