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...TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. With a rueful laugh, she said: "The ridiculous thing is that people keep telephoning me, asking if I can help them. People on the street are so worried. I don't know why. I don't know why the poor people so fear Communism. Why didn't they go to the other side? Naturally, all the upper class would like to get away. The rich and those with connections with the government are the ones in danger. The Communists want to destroy a class...
...Communist Vietnam is probably the least dismal of the bleak alternatives that have faced the Vietnamese people. But in its editorial "A Free Vietnam" The Crimson makes use of a ludicrously biased view of Communism to display an utterly unwarranted enthusiasm for a Communist takeover...
...Crimson's glib assertions is that the refugees are fleeing from war and not from Communism. That is clear: after all, 900,000 Vietnamese came to the south after Ho Chi Minh gained control of the north in 1954. The Crimson's advice to base a judgment of Communist intentions on "statements and actions" is well-taken; one may refer-to the Vietcong assassination lists, the mass murders in Hue in 1968, the thousands of executions associated with rural collectivization of the north (50,000 - 250,000 killed. The Economist April...
...support entirely after the Nationalists' flight to Taiwan. The flow resumed six months later at the outbreak of the Korean War, reaching a total of $4 billion before it was finally ended in 1965; Washington regarded Chiang as an important ally in the U.S. efforts to contain Communism in Asia...
Died. Tung Pi-wu, 89, elder statesman of Chinese Communism; in Peking. One of the youthful firebrands who helped Mao Tse-tung organize the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921, Tung was a veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province in 1934-35 and a member of the Politburo ever since Map's final victory...