Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...
Hong Kong's population is swollen by refugees from Red China, most of them rich men. Their dollars buy them anything in Hong Kong-Cadillacs, apartments (for which "key money" frequently runs as high as $2,000 U.S.) and even Hong Kong birth certificates ($1,000 and up), which would entitle them to British passports and visas...
Sweethearts & Five Stars. Communist troops have been as anxious as the British to avoid incidents along the border between the British enclave and Red China, which runs along the main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless...
Some of his fellow Communists, said Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, had been "politically blind." What they had not seen was the Red handwriting on the wall: Stalin had slated Poland for all-out economic and military colonization. A purge of the blind was inevitable...
...editors of Wisconsin daily and weekly newspapers, McCarthy sent a blistering letter charging Evjue's paper with continually parroting the Daily Worker and asking whether it was not "the Red Mouthpiece for the Communist Party in Wisconsin." He cited Evjue's own 1941 accusation that Parker was a Communist and added: "There is nothing in his writing [to] indicate he has in any way changed his attitude...