Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian Communists sent a 5,000,000-lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
...Red China's pudgy Mao Tse-tung had made the long trip from Peking to Moscow to pay fealty to Joseph Stalin. A Soviet diplomatic mission met Mao at the Manchurian border, put him on the Trans-Siberian railway, escorted him all the way to Moscow (ten days, some 3,500 miles). So far as is known, it was Mao's first trip outside his native land...
...being the world's richest land; but it did earn genuine gratitude. Under overall sponsorship of the Church World Service, Inc., children of 19 countries have labored to draw and paint Christmas cards thanking the U.S. for its gifts. Norse youngsters pictured their Little Dwarf with the red hat, who brings them the season's gifts; from Germany came a nightmare scene of a ship called Bremen at the bottom of the ocean, from Italy a picture showing two children amid Rome's ruins...
...Red Rout. For the time being, the Nationalists were safe on Formosa. Last October, the Communists had launched the beginning of an invasion when they tried to storm the tiny island of Chin Men, just off the mainland from Amoy and 130 miles across the Strait of Formosa. The attack was a bloody failure. Nationalist troops commanded by trim, V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen, who four months ago was placed in charge of Formosa's defense, routed a Communist assault force of 20,000, returned to Formosa with 7,000 prisoners. Most of the Reds have since been...
...need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...