Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yuan Kai-li was an ordinary laborer at Shanghai's Second Steel Mill until he was bitten by the Stakhanovite bug and started doing twice as much work as before. He was promptly elected Shanghai Model Worker. He was sent to a national congress of model workers, met Communist Boss Mao & Co., found himself a member of eight different committees...
After his twelve-hour stint in the steel works, Yuan was expected to sit in at meetings lasting from three to ten hours. Soon, to keep going, he was taking five injections of glucose a month. Said Yuan to a Communist reporter: "From last December until May, I slept only three hours a day, sometimes five hours, sometimes not a wink except a nap over the desk...
From Formosa, the Chinese Nationalists punctuated the Communist Minister's remarks. The Nationalist Control Yuan this week told the U.N. that China's Communists, with Russian backing, have plans for killing 150 million Chinese in a deliberate program to reduce China's 450 million population to more manageable proportions. According to the Nationalist Defense Ministry, 1,000,000 Chinese anti-Communists have already been killed...
...even encouraged negotiations between the Tibetans and the Red masters of China. Last April a seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country: "How can there...