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...transports capable of carrying a 15-ton load 4,000 miles. Thus most major Asian cities-Tokyo, Manila, New Delhi, Bangkok, Rangoon and others-may well find themselves within Red Chinese atomic range some time early in 1965. Peking, moreover, has launched a missile program guided by Chien Hsueh-shen, 52, a 1938 Caltech Ph.D. grad and jet-propulsion specialist. Chien was chief of the rocket section of the U.S. Scientific Commission on National Defense during World War II. In 1950 he was caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave...
...such renegade scholar was Shen Chou, whose delightful study of a cat is done in exuberant brush strokes of ink and wash. Shen Chou's acute observation of nature is expressed differently from the literati schools, which tended towards meticulous brush work well exemplified in a Sung drawing of a cat by Li Ti. The lively spirit of the cat is spontaneously displayed by Shen Chou's expressive brush. It is nearly lost amid Li Ti's minute strokes...
...real danger for nations that walk the third road, warned Shen, is the notion that they can preserve peace by placating "the strong and predatory." Thus they may force the U.N. into the same ignominious fate as the League of Nations, which capitulated repeatedly to the prewar Japanese militarists, to Mussolini and Hitler. "The League," said Shen, "was too much in love with the easy doctrine of peace at all costs. It did not hesitate to bring pressure to bear on the victims of aggression to surrender peacefully' so war might be avoided. By so doing, it actually aided...
...itself is doomed, argued Shen, if Nationalist China is ousted and replaced by the Chinese Communists, who by their own actions are "clearly disqualified" for membership. Without facing the thorny fact that Russia and its satellites are, by this reasoning, equally disqualified, Shen insisted: "The U.N., created to preserve the peace in conformity with law and justice, is now in danger of being perverted in the interest of powerful warmakers who have no respect for the principles and purposes enshrined in the Charter. Appeasement is very much...
Moral Confusion. The most striking example of what Shen was talking about came from Mali's Borema Bocoum, who invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...