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...double virtue of being perfectly appropriate and independently memorable. In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies. He uses sound again when he swallows a whistle and his squealing hiccups bring dogs and taxicabs...
...union 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...
...ta ca quyet nhat dinh rang nhung nguoi thiêt mênh o dây se không phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...streets teem with Russian soldiers. Dairen Chinese are now forbidden to use the old Chinese term mao-tse (literally: hairy one) when referring to Russians; Russians must be called lao-ta (literally: elder brother...
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...