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...Bill of Rights. So comparatively peaceful is China this spring that President Chiang Kai-shek has at last had time to put in shape a Constitution and Bill of Rights???something Chinese have never had. Just now the text is secret, but soon it will be laid before the People's (Nationalist) Congress at Nanking. There will be, said Government spokesmen last week, no right of Red speech in the bill, no excessive guarantees of freedom...
...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights???that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...