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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon a full-fledged counterfeiting plant was set up in isolated Block 19 of Sachen-hausen concentration camp under the supervision of SS Officer Bernhard Kriiger. His team of some 160 inmates, mostly Jews once employed in printing and banking, got special rations and good treatment. By early 1943 the Sachenhausen presses were turning out 250,000 bogus British notes each month...
Every other summer for twelve years the Communists have served up a monster propaganda rally for fellow travelers of the younger set from all over the world, and for any other ingenuous souls who could be enticed along. Until this year, the circuses were always staged behind the Iron Curtain, with plenty of Red police to keep things moving by the numbers, and press censorship to blank out any slipups. But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere...
...press had misgivings about so rigid a course. Said the Economist in one of its sharpest attacks on the government to date: the Devlin report "was testimony to British justice and fair play. It could even have been regarded as a feather in the cap of the government that set [it] up. Instead, the government's response has been roughly, 'Tell the truth and shame the Devlin.' Politics has overridden the appearance of detached justice. Mr. Macmillan has involved the whole credit of himself and his government...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...
...Britain last week, commercial television (never to be confused with the state-supervised BBC) celebrated its fifth birthday by repaying the last shilling of the ?550,000 government loan that got the enterprise started. Despite such success, critics carped that a Briton's TV set was no longer his castle. The big payoff, wrote the London Evening Standard, was financed by U.S. shows. "Not only are there too many imported programmes on the home screen, but our homebred programmes are becoming more and more influenced by America...