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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon saw that the real resistance to Communist regimentation lay not in the rifles of a few thousand guerrillas, but in millions of hearts. In 1950 he told a Peking Public Security Administration Conference that the suppression of "counterrevolutionaries" was the first necessity of the new state, that it would be a continuing necessity, and its scope and difficulties would increase rather than decrease as the revolution continued. On this thesis Lo built his rise to power...
...missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies, or harried them into leaving the country. Of China's 6,475 foreign missionaries, only eleven priests (eight in prison and three under house arrest) and 14 Franciscan Sisters now remain. Of China's 4,000,000 Christians, only a few thousand worship freely today, and in their churches the Chinese red flag hangs above pulpit or altar...
...Kansas, which the playwright had only mentioned in the original stage production. This get-together turns out to be a hugh affair, complete with pie-eating competition, talent contests, and all the Mid-western trimmings. The picnic fills the screen, all right, but it is abyssmally dull. A few thousand people franticlly enjoying themselves all over the Kansas countryside are just not a particularly interesting subject for drama...
...Lively Arts. In Tokyo, Commercial Artist Shigenari Niwa was arrested on charges of counterfeiting more than 2,000 thousand-yen ($2.78) notes, explained that he had designed them for a scene in a film, added sadly: "They were so good, it seemed a shame to waste them on a movie...
...committee is now studying plans for the switch including the purchase of "several thousand dollars" worth of new equipment, according to Kalmus. A new transmitter would have to be acquired for the station which is located in Dudley Hall, a University owned building...