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...almost totally ignorant of science (which he dislikes) and, by the testimony of one of his former teachers, is "terrible at mathematics." Except for whatever he may have picked up on two brief trips to Moscow, he knows the world outside China only at secondhand, and according to Chang Kuo-tao, once his colleague on the Chinese Communist Politburo, he is a poor administrator ("Vague about details and has a rather poor memory about people who are not constantly around him"). Essentially, Mao's world is an imaginary one-a curious melange of Chinese monarchical concepts and Marxist ideology...
Weekly Torture. In charge of the program is a layman named Ho Chang-hsiang, officially in charge of the government's Department for Religious Affairs...
...began by ferreting out a few priests willing to collaborate as a step to higher rank, installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint...
Result: Rhee's Liberals won 122 seats, Vice President John M. Chang's Democrats 77, Independents 27. The result was a victory for Rhee's heir-apparent, Lee Ki Poong, 61, Speaker of the Assembly, who last year gave his 20-year-old son to Rhee for adoption. But Rhee's Liberals failed to win the two-thirds majority they sought, which would have enabled Rhee to amend the constitution so as to prevent U.S.-educated Vice President Chang, 58, from succeeding if Rhee dies during the remaining two years of his term...
South Korea. At 82, Syngman Rhee still holds the country under his thumb. Last year the country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that...