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...Saigon, their opposite numbers were doing the same in the North Viet Nam capital of Hanoi. In this case, the military advisers were a Red Chinese mission that significantly included the commander in chief of Red China's air force. The delegation's leader, Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, described China and North Viet Nam as "lip and teeth neighbors" who maintain "fraternal cooperation and friendship in all fields." Hong Kong Communist newspapers boast that Red China will match U.S. help to Saigon with increased help to Hanoi, and imply that Marshal Yeh is Mao Tse-tung...
...give the Kuomintang its first real opposition (TIME, Sept. 19), the authorities apparently decided to arrest him first on sedition charges and then see what proof they could find. They also arrested his business manager, Ma Chih-su, 38, and his former accountant and secretary, quiet, moody Liu Tzu-ying, 54. Without waiting for the trial, the government's Central Daily News laid out the government's case. Secretary Liu had confessed, reported the News, that before Nanking fell in 1949 he was chairman of the city's Communist Party headquarters. Subsequently he decided...
...sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...course, virtuous Moon Lady is restored to her riches and reunited with her son. But as the author probably intended, what the reader remembers is more likely to be the song of the low-living and unrepentant beggar Ying...
...sent into the fields. In slack agricultural seasons or in their "spare time" they are put to dam building, construction of primitive factories, or industrial labor. All members of the commune get regular military training, and even when not on duty they must move by the numbers. At Chao Ying commune in Honan, according to an enthusiastic Red newsman, "assembly bells ring and whistles blow at daybreak. In about a quarter of an hour the peasants line up. At the command of company and squad leaders, the teams march to the fields, holding flags. One no longer sees peasants...