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...frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
First there was the big "Five-Antis" campaign of last year. Since then. Peking propagandists have been adding a bewildering list of numerical sins to the jargon of Communism, alongside "commandism." "dispersionism," "tailism," and kindred diseases. Not to be outdone, the Tientsin financial and economic department confessed that it was beset by the "Four Know-Nots": not knowing what its officials were doing, not knowing the amount of capital invested in public enterprises, not knowing losses & gains, not knowing the amount of cash on hand. Last week the Peking People's Daily proclaimed a new self-criticism campaign, labeled...
...Chinese Communists cracked down on some of the last remaining Roman Catholic missions. News reaching Hong Kong indicated that the Reds had arrested at least eleven priests in Shanghai, ten in Tientsin and an unknown number in Canton. Familiar charge: the priests were "well-known spies...
...their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping to China. Most of the ships that call there are Communist-owned, but occasional vessels flying Western flags, including the Union Jack, have been spotted...
Claudel enjoyed great spiritual confidence; he implored, harried, badgered Gide to become a Catholic. Claudel worked in the French diplomatic service, but no matter where he was-in Tientsin, Prague or Tokyo-he bombarded Gide with letters. For a time Gide was shaken. In 1907 he wrote in his Journal that, after a letter from Claudel, "I. . . have trouble getting back to work...