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...Communists in 1950, and many Western observers, otherwise unsympathetic to the Communists, hastily acknowledged the Communist achievement-too hastily. Last week Chinese Communists admitted that not only is corruption widespread in Red China, but that it has infected tens of thousands of supposedly hard-core party members. Reported Po Ipo, head of a kind of a Communist Kefauver committee called the Austerity Inspection Committee: "More than 1,670 corrupt persons have been exposed in 27 government agencies." Identified as top grafters: Communications Chief Chang Wen-en, Secret Police Chief Sung Te-kuei, Tientsin's Party Regional Headquarters Chief Chang...
...give information which led to the unearthing of 6,000 other bribery and corruption cases. Last week, with thousands of Chinese rushing to get in first with their confessions, the Communists had turned China's ancient "squeeze" racket into a neat squeeze play. Complained Austerity Inspection Chairman Po: "One bureau which employs 566 people has denounced only...
...thick with outcries. Most indignant were the Belgians, who cried that their high standard of living and control over inflation stems from sound monetary policy, for which the Wise Men now propose to penalize them. The Italians said they just couldn't afford more arms, because the Po floods had inundated them with unforeseen costs. The French grumbled that their Parliament was in a tax-cutting mood...
...began when unusually heavy rains, pounding down the Alps into northern Italy, swelled the Po. Italy's largest river went on rampage, smashing dikes, crumbling farmhouses, sending truckloads of refugees into Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss...
...week's end, as though Italy had not suffered enough, typhoid threatened to break out. Engineers surveying the area concluded that it would be months before flood waters receded from the Po delta, bread basket of Italy...