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...because the campaign made no impact on the Chinese people. Now, party dialecticians are trying a new propaganda tack-later marriage. The government lists all sorts of advantages: health, industrial efficiency, psychological adjustment, almost everything except the need to keep the birth rate down. Peking College Medical Professor Yeh Kung-shao spelled it all out explicitly in a recent issue of China Youth Daily. Wrote Yeh: "The ideal age for women [to marry] is from 23 to 25, for men 25 to 29 ... I suggest the women have their first child generally...
...portions of outright subversion. Their base is Fidel Castro's Cuba, where Peking agents now operate a newspaper, show Chinese Communist movies at the biggest theaters, and harangue the 30,000 Havana Chinese (overwhelmingly sympathetic to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists) at streetcorner rallies. In Havana sits Kung Mai, Peking's manager in Latin America for Hsinhua, the New China News Agency. Kung Mai has constructed an intricate web of correspondents and "cultural representatives" through half a dozen major countries in South America. Kung's local correspondent in Buenos Aires now cables more wordage...
...recent Communist Party meeting in Peking, an ambitious delegate who began to recite the once-obligatory eulogies to "the great agricultural leap" was harshly reminded by one of his colleagues that, after all, China's Communists were "not like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China...
...switch pleased the Communist critics of Khrushchev's peaceful-coexistence line. SOVIET ROCKET PROTECTS PEACE, blared the Chinese Communist publication Ta Kung Pao's enthusiastic headline last week. It also served to refute the charge that he had become "soft on democracy." Even domestically, it could serve a purpose. If Russia's Ivans were wondering why Khrushchev's vaunted prosperity was not paying off as handsomely in comfort and amenities as they had been led to believe, this was an excuse of sorts: the money was going to protect Mother Russia against wicked imperialists...
...Secretary of State Herter moved last week to make "the strongest possible protest" against the sentences. But it is doubtful whether Bishops Walsh or Kung will ever emerge from prison. But his old friends in Hong Kong are more proud than sad at the news of his trial. Said one: "Bishop Walsh wanted to share the agony and the suffering of the Chinese priests. Don't feel sorry for him. He's where he wants to be, doing what he wants...