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...waiting and hoping for is a fullscale, Hungarian-style uprising. He wants to be ready to support it-as the West was not ready to support Hungary. Says he: "The Hungarian type of revolt is not only possible in the future, it has been happening increasingly in Sinkiang, Tibet, Chinhai and on the borders of Yunnan and Szechwan . . . The time will come for a national revolution against Communism...
...Hong Kong these days, markets and bazaars are flooded with produce from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls...
...their hardships, Red China's scientists are producing results. From behind the Bamboo Curtain come rumors that significant supplies of uranium are being developed in Sinkiang province for export to the U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects...
Told to join the long line awaiting official transportation, impatient Willie set out with four friends, made his own way across Russia, Sinkiang. the Himalaya passes, India, and finally the sea. Crossing Russia by train in early 1941 was as pleasant as the champagne the travelers managed to buy in Xiptoc, a Russian village in the center of Asia. But in China's Sinkiang. "that province vhich has long since been abandoned by both gods and decent people." Willie broke his back in a truck crash. After a hefty Russian nurse helped him hobble out of Kuldsha...
...companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface a major concession. Joint companies are the standard Soviet devices for establishing control of satellite economies. Two of the companies had clamped a Soviet hold on the exploitation of Sinkiang's oil and mineral resources. ¶ To help Red China set up 15 new heavy industrial projects, build two railroads out from Central China to the Russian border...