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Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...
Chinese Communist courts, according to Minister Shih, have been too soft on antiCommunists. Punishment must now be meted out quickly and heavily. Under her new codes, courts may order a prisoner shot for his "intentions"-which the courts must judge at their discretion. They can punish "counterrevolutionaries" who are merely "waiting for a chance to commit a crime." The new penalties may be retroactive, Madame Shih continued. Verdicts "should conform to prevailing policy...
...pictures and newsreels of the Hungnam action contributed more to forming U.S. policy than all the words in the "Great Debate." The nation-and the revitalized Eighth Army-now knows that U.S. fighting men will stay in Korea until a better place and a better opportunity is found to punish Communist aggression...
...chivalry, England's tournament-loving, debt-ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
...stay in Korea made good sense if that decision was looked on as part of a plan to punish the Chinese aggressor. The Chinese army could be fought in the north, while Red China's strength was drained by embargo and Nationalist attacks in the south. But to stay in Korea and not try to hurt Red China elsewhere would be just obstinacy, not policy...