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Like many Peiping intellectuals, some of the 16 correspondents in residence there this winter viewed without alarm the prospect of Communist capture of Peiping. Boss Mao Tse-tung had promised complete press freedom, and correspondents hoped to get an on-the-spot picture of the Red army. But when Red...
For foreign correspondents, Peiping was once one of the world's most comfortable beats. Life in the walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's...
Instead of friendship, Communist organizations denounced the A.P.'s Spencer Moosa and the U.P.'s Michael Keon for "base insults" to the people of Peiping. Cried one Red committee: "We cannot tolerate frenzied barkings from the scum of the journalistic world."
1. Achieved the surrender of Peiping.
China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen continued his forlorn efforts to make peace with the Communists. In Peiping, Li's unofficial peace delegation found some signs of Communist cooperation-in matters where the Reds stood to gain by cooperation. Two Nationalist freighters were on the way north...