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...British in his native land. The son of a clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...
Such was the confusion that pervaded France's Communist Party, long the most Stalinist outside the Iron Curtain, on the eve of its first congress since Khrushchev pulled the plug on Stalin last February. The workers, taught to regard pale ex-Miner Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though...
...Communists have systematically stripped businesses while holding their managers virtual prisoners. Last week the last of hundreds of U.S. businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan's C. V.Starr and Co. His company's losses totaled nearly $5,000,000 before the Reds were satisfied. Said Miner: "Our companies were wrung dry like dishrags until we had lost everything...
...group built its American-Asiatic Underwriters into Asia's biggest insurance operation, with more than half of China's total business; it accumulated large real-estate holdings, opened Studebaker and Buick-Vauxhall agencies, published Shanghai's English-language Evening Post & Mercury. When Charles S. Miner took over in 1948, the company was doing a highly successful business and hoped it could continue under the. Communists. Starr's Evening Post even fell for the line that the Reds were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow, went so far as to welcome Mao Tse-tung...
...before to the Nationalists. Starr's land company lost all its undeveloped land to nationalization, was stripped of 200 rented houses in one grab on the pretext that the titles were invalid. As business foundered, each dismissed employee had to be paid off in U.S. dollars; once Manager Miner was jailed for ten days when U.S. currency restrictions held up the necessary cash. To top it off, the Communists calculated interest on unpaid claims at 1½%, compounded daily...