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...second bell has rung, and I am leaving
...headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...
...relevant aspect of the case: the old relationship of the two men. How had Chambers returned the documents to Hiss's house, as he stated, sometimes as late as 2 a.m.? How had he gotten in? Said Chambers: "I believe I had a key." He might simply have rung the bell, he was not sure. But Hiss's door, ran the burden of his testimony, always opened...
When the Communists captured Shanghai, Wang returned to resume editing Ta Rung Pao. Reporters who unwittingly persisted in the old independent approach to the news were quickly set straight. A fortnight ago, Editor Wang and one of his staffers pleaded guilty on Page One to an "irresponsible attitude" in covering a speech by Communist General Chou Enlai. The irresponsibility: publishing the story without submitting it in advance for revision by "the person involved...
Last week Editor Wang's staff pleaded guilty again in an editorial: Ta Rung Pao had been so dull that the "comparatively backward elements" whom the Communists are seeking to convert "do not like to read the paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly...