Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take. But it gave him what he wanted. So shocked were the Poles at the action of the Western powers that the Communists were able to fasten their grip on Poland without meeting dangerous resistance. By now, most of the original Russian stooges have been liquidated, and Poland (pop. 26,200,000) is run by Marshal Rokossovsky of the Red army...
...burly, boyish-faced farmer from the upcountry hills of Kenya stood before an audience of diehard settler folk in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru (pop. 22,481). He was Michael Blundell, 48, Minister without Portfolio in the Kenya government, come home to ask his constituents for a vote of confidence. Blundell has decided that the 2½-year-old Mau Mau war can no longer be won by bullets. One of Kenya's wealthiest farmers, Yorkshire-born Blundell was seeking support for his policy of giving the colony's 6,000,000 Africans and 100,000 Indians...
...headquarters of the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Publicity stunt," argued some Manila skeptics, but last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight new villages (pop. 95,000) that the refugees were creating out of the jungle. They won respect with their drugs and their dedication. Yet the best assets of the Filipinos were their own likable dispositions. "The people need laughter," the Filipinos decided, so they chipped in their savings and gave them parties...
...Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million) came unmistakable signs that the austere autocracy of Ho Chi Minh is having trouble with its housekeeping. The rice crop of the devastated Red River Delta is down by 30% to 40%. The worst floods in 70 years have washed out irrigation dikes and dams, endangering the spring planting. Some 700,000 refugees have moved off to the rice-rich south, leaving for Ho their burned farmhouses and untilled land. An additional 10,000 refugees are fleeing the north every week. Refugees from Red Viet Nam reaching the French-held port city...
...cities like Hanoi (pop. 300,000), the Communists have instituted a monthly ration of 17 lbs. of rice for children, 33 lbs. for adults, 55 lbs. for their new privileged elite, the Communist party workers. "Rebels eat last" is the rule in the sections where Roman Catholics resist the regime. The Hanoi press extols the "selfless help" of Red China, but Red China (itself in economic trouble) has only sent Ho one shipment of 10,000 tons of rice. "We may have to accept as many as 2,000,000 deaths this year from starvation," a senior Communist admitted...