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...conflict with "bourgeoisie liberties," should be examined. An appraisal of social and political movements should not ignore the degree to which individual and minority rights have been sacrificed, nor should it ignore the extent to which cultural and linguistic entities are forceably submerged or eliminated. The suppression of non-Mandarin and non-Russian speaking peoples by the Soviet Union and China and the suppression of the press in Cuba in the name of Socialist progress cannot be reconciled with humanistic values that transcend ideological arguments. The Crimson should address itself to this also...
...followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored for decades to impress the Emperor and the powerful mandarin scholars with their own impeccable scholarship, eventually becoming keepers of the imperial calendar. But this opportunity to win China for Christianity was lost when Rome denied the missionaries' pleas that Chinese converts be left undisturbed in their Confucian reverence for their ancestors...
...rediscovery of modern China is a continuing journalistic event, and each visit by foreign newsmen adds fresh insights into a still largely unknown country. TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman, who speaks Mandarin, recently visited China for eleven days as one of a small group of journalists covering an official visit by British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Excerpts from his report...
Closest to Ho, and perhaps the brightest of all his associates, was Pham Van Dong, now Premier of North Viet Nam. Son of a high-ranking mandarin, Pham was educated in Hué and Hanoi, joined Ho in Canton in 1925. The next year he was sent back to Viet Nam to organize party cells. Arrested by the French in 1930, Pham spent six years at hard labor in a penal colony, then fled to China to rejoin his leader. When Ho was jailed by the Nationalist Chinese from 1942 to 1943, Pham took over the leadership of the independence...
...Blind Swordsman, a Mandarin film (in color) with Chinese and English subtitles, will play at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday at EMERSON...