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Are Chinese Reds Merent Prom those in Russia? Views of First -Hand Observers Stated Liberty in Captivity Exists in Yenan
she did mentioned this to the Yenan students. They answered, "That is not Communism. Those people are brigands! True Communism is found in Yenan'!"
Yet it is from Yenan that Red
apostles have gone forth to spread areas were taken over and 2,000 their doctrine, destroy railroads, propagandists were shipped into murder land owners and divide their Competent foreign correspondthem. No one stays less than six properties. Here are some of the ents and even U.S. Army officers, months or more than two and a ti ings that are happening in Red who have visited Red regions and half years at this school. When areas, as taken from first-hand redealt with Chinese Red leaders in the Party needs a student for field ports. person sometimes voice the opinwork he obeys the call instantly. In one North China seaport, as ion that Chinese Reds are of a There are no classes; but every brand quite different from those of day all read the Communist news- scot as the Reds took over from the Japanese in August, 1945, all Russia. The magazine, "World paper and then comment upon it. Report," says: "The Chinese ComDiscussions are carried on first in the chamber of commerce, of the board munist Party, although it started of education, and all direcsections of ten, then in groups of out as a replica of that in Russia forty, and then in full assembly, tors of schools were compelled to go into the interior for an indefiand still uses the hammer-and -sickle That should make the Red pro- hefore the 1,000 comrades. These nite period of "re-education ",Some insignia, has departed widely from gramme in China perfectly clear. are usually in the form of debates, the Russian policies and appears no must keep returned after three, others after Democracy (and they mean the though all speakers six months; others longer to have any close connection never came Russian variety, of course) is only strictly within the Party line: no back, Absolute secrecy was imwith the Communist Party of Rus. a temporary expedient, to be dis- one ever criticises the basic prinposed on those who returned, but sia" ciirded for State absolutism as ciples either of Communism or the Are these men, who have first- soon as possible, "Liberty of Thought, Re- ,ome of the captive Europeans statwhen the land Party. d they had suffered or witnessed hand evidence, insincere or else en- that is now being distributed to the ligious Liberty, Liberty of Speech, inhuman treatment. tirely wrong in their conclusions? poorest of the poor will be taken Personal Liberty" are sacred exWhy is it that other first-hand ob- away again and collectivised. STALIN. All "capitalists" i. e. Chin- pressions which all repeat like a bankers, servers who have resided for years "We too, can read the land owners, important merchants, For Stalin to be given place of ese Communism differs from the Litany. us in China's Red areas inform Bible," one student said "Our lib- were entirely despoiled Russian variety only?because it is of honour In China is significant, that the Reds here are essentially not yet so far advanced. rary has one, We are free, just their goods, their houses pillaged, the same as those in Russia? like the people of Russia " and afterwards they were brought bound to obey the sisters any From a pair of Old China Hands But in the library everywhere t. trial by the "people"i e. neigh- more; they could come and go A man who spent ten years with who early this year were permitted the Chinese Reds sums the whole to do a ten-day conducted tour of was the same monotonous list of bouring beggars coolies etc. some- whenever they wished, and the sisthing up in a few sentences: "The Yenan, "Holy Land of Democracy," Communist Fathers: Marx, Lenin, times numbering 200 to 300. Who- ters should be reported if they askCommunists do not wish to estab- the power -house of Communism in Stalin, Gorky-historic materialism ever refused to make charges ag- ed them to work against their will. China, we gather some details that with little competition. The squir- ainst the accused was himself de- The Reds promised to pay frequent nounced as an accomplice and de- visits to protect the orphans againhelp to fill out the picture. "In rel in its cage hops about and thus the central hall of the Party school, possesses a certain liberty. It is spoiled of everything he bad, even st the sisters! between the portraits of President this sort, liberty of captivity, says if he was already poor. As a reign The Americans were always reMao Tze-tung and General Chou- the report, which exists in Yenan, of terror was in force, any sort of ceived with great pomp and given teh, the students venerate the four "In a discussion about dialectic accusation was made so as to insure what they probably took for a men who are the indisputable mas- materialism with a teacher I criti- personal safety. Finally the accu- warm welcome by the Reds. They ters of their thought: Marx, Engels, cized him for imposing on his pupils sed was forced to admit that the did not know that on the following Lenin and Stalin." For anyone a system of thought which has not sensations were all true. "You day the Communists always organAfter an hour's hear" he was then told, "the voice ised anti-American who knows the traditional Chinese been proved. and anti -Euroyou." pean distrust for foreigners, this giving friendly debate the professor admit- of the people condemning processions in the streets. of the place of honour to the Big ted before witnesses, "I: is true: When the trial was finished the The position of foreigners has been Four of Communism is strikingly my materialism has not yet been punishment took place and thespee- toes. miserable from the beginning proved'. With them it seems that tators became actors in a horrible significant. of the Red occupation. Forbidden Armed with lashes and dialectic materialism is simply a drama. to engage in any occupation, such The report goes on to point out means for unifying thought with a clubs, they beat the poor victim, as the customs, banking or comthe almost fanatical enthusiasm of who was finally paraded view to common action. through "They merce, they had no way to make a Yenan's students. There are speneglect to criticise it, and teach it the streets of the city, dressed in a living. Money was not allowed in cial "Winter Schools" for adults. A ridiculous manner, covered with inas a dogma." for them from other places, and for person who knows 100 KARL MARX. Chinese scriptions, preceded by a band of nine months no one was permitted In this carefully guarded "liberty" China flooded with his writings, characters teaches one who knows musical instruments and followed to leave the city. The beds invadcan only fifty while the latter teaches Yenan Catholics practice their by a mob. ed their homes, made use of their beginners, Two winters are enough religion? The best commentary on At times during the past year lish complete Communism in China to inculcate 1p00 or 1,500 charac. that is the fact that they have had kitchens, cut down their trees, went American aviators landed at the at once, for China is not yet ready. tera, which permits the reading of ti remain ten years without a resiaway with their coal, vegetables, were accompanied They must first industrialise the the Communist paper. The ordin- dent priest for the beautiful cathed- city. They etc., and there was not the slighteverywhere by Reds speaking perthen form a country, proletariat ary middle -school of the region ral, with only an occasional visit est recourse against all this pillage. it; lasts only three instead of the usual from a passing missionary. Yet fect English, who forbade any of and only then communise White Russians were sent as prithough some don't want to wait the six years throughout the rest of Catholic ideas are no; unknown to the foreign inhabitants to speak to them privately. The prudent soners to Russian-occupied Dairen, twenty years or more needed to do China. the Reds. Comrade Keue, whose where their families were broken answers to the visitors' questions it Meanwhile, in Red areas, the The Yen-ta University has sev- five troupes of actors stage about holds the eral hundred students, with courses twenty performances a month, ex- were therefore always, "No, we do up, the children placed in orphanCommunist minority not need anything: everything is ages, the men taken for forced labmasses under it, control, moulding in finance, padagogy and letters. plained how he imitates the Mystery them to its own manner of life." These students, boys and girls, live Plays of the Catholic Middle Ages: going all right; we have no com- our in Siberia or at Port Arthur, Some months the women turned on the streets. This explains logically why Chinese and study in caves six to a cave, "The Church knew that people plaint to make." ago relief flour was flown in by the These statements are from people the their professors living and eating cannot be taught with dry Communists, though having words. Americans for the European popu- who know the situation well. Yet same aims as their Russian com- with them, Classes are held in You have to entertain, 'to give lation, but the distribution was en- more than one foreign correspondrades, have not yet been able to the open air. Many of the stu- some zest to teaching if you want the honeyed carry out the complete Marxist dents finish in one year, whereas it to be assimilated. Moreover, it trusted to the Red authorities, with ent, influenced by the result that only one white fam- words of Red spokesmen in the safpt ogramme. most Chinese universities require i.; Catholic missionaries who have ety of comfortable Shanghai hotels, ily received anything. Eleven sacks Older men who, after a few given the example of the spirit of An interview given A.P. Corres- four. were brought to the Catholic or- has expressed the opinion that the pondent, John Roderick, at Yenan, years of primary school, have de. sacrifice required of all Communists phapage, but the children were told Reds could do a better job of runlast January, confirms the above: monstrated administrative ability, They leave everything and devote it was a gift of the Russian So- ning China than the National GovCommun- viets "The Chinese Communists are com- skip middle school entirely to enter themselves completely. sent through the Americans; ernment is doing! Too bad they pletely, irrevocably and aggressive- the university for a year of spe- ism tries inculcate this spirit." that 'the dour was for the orphans could not stay long enough in a cial work. ly Communist in the full sense of Commenting openly on the Mu- alone and that the sisters must be Red area to see Chinese CommunThe Party school is something sion of Liberty, the report says: reported if they touched any of it. ism in action. the Marxian and Leninist word.. .. But it is impossible, Marx avers, different, a place where the final "One of us who had been dragged In all fairness, we must state Red deputies from the Mayor's to jump from feudalism to the final touches are given to Red leaders along in the dirt by Communists in office conducted an official investi- that in certain parts of Red China and This goal, step year it North first propagandists. are not too bad: misConsequently the China after a woman had gation of the orphanage in May. conditions zinst be democracy. Mao Tzetung had only 1,000 students instead ofspit on his face because he insisted They told the children that there is sionaries are on good terms with new on the liberty of not thinking as no God and that they were not says: 'Only through democracy can last year's 3,000 for many (Continued on Page 12.) By JAMES F. KEA.ILVEY,
one arrive at Theefore, in the broad areas of China democracy is in full flourish, not There are no colCommunism. lectively -owned farms as in Russia The main thing in this period is to place the power in the hands of the people. The landlords must go. There have been dissenters in the Party who feel that i: should leap from feudalism to socialism over -night. These have been scolded by Mao."
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