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...suffering the biggest losses in East-West trade, the U.S. has cut its Sino-Soviet imports from $233 million in 1948 to $67 million last year, and its sales to the same bloc from $397 million to only $1 million. By comparison, Britain last year sold $156 million worth of goods to these nations; Benelux sold $97 million, Italy $58 million, France $42 million. All the sales are about one-third or less in units of the prewar level...
...work with retouching brushes and scissors to glorify Georgy Malenkov. It ran a photograph showing him with Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung-just the three of them. This proved to be a mutilation of a picture taken three years ago at the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty; some 15 other Soviet big shots, including No. 2 Man Lavrenty Beria and No. 3 Man Molotov, were excised from the picture, and Malenkov was moved closer...
...Sino-Soviet border stretches for some 5,000 miles along the northern and western edges of China. In partnership, it needs no policing. If he tried to break with Russia, fight in Korea, hold on to Manchuria, and hold off a revived Nationalist China, Mao would in effect be turning his borders with Russia into a suicidal second front...
...called for more free dom of debate and criticism in the press, quizzically quoting a newspaper article that said "only Hu Shih enjoys freedom of speech in free China." But he praised the present freedom of discussion in For mosa's Legislative Yuan (assembly), citing that the Sino-Japanese peace treaty had been passed only after Foreign Minis ter George Yeh had to put in 19 appear ances before Yuan committees...
Behind all the love, love, love stands the well-organized, well-financed Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, which in two years has grown from 3,000,000 members to 39 million, organized into 120,000 branches. (Every soldier and government employee must join.) The association promotes Russia in a big way, with a big budget: last year it sponsored 74 periodicals, 580 books and pamphlets, 200 film projection teams, 2,500 lantern-slide groups, and 20,000 evening classes in the Russian language...