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Sihanouk took back the premiership of his country only eight weeks ago, after sacking dutiful Premier San Yun in a welter of malicious and unproved charges that San Yun had been doling out valuable import licenses, mostly for high-priced consumer goods, to assorted ministers' wives, political chairwarmers, and some ladies closely related to the royal family itself...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
...this was officially and publicly laid on the line in Peking last March 5, on the first anniversary of Stalin's death, by Vice Premier Chen Yun. The Communists are almost as frank in telling the world their difficulties. According to recent Communist accounts, a nationwide shortage of food and clothing is "continuing to develop this year and has already become a question of concern to the broad masses of the people." Surplus workers are being rounded up and deported from the cities to farms and mines (75,000 were removed from Shanghai alone). Unrest, food shortages, crop failures...
...Peking last month, when the party observed the first anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death, the orators showed that they were not blind to the problems and weaknesses before them. "The peace policy was a very important part of Stalin's life work," explained Vice Premier Chen Yun. "The Soviet Union secured 20 years of peace from 1921 to 1941, and it was an indispensable external condition for the completion of Socialist construction...
...masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters" got off with long prison terms...