CHINA: Sugar-Coated Bullets

Capitalism evidently involves doing what comes naturally, Red China's rulers reluctantly admit. They just can't seem to root out its surviving tendencies. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung has made only two big speeches this year. The first, made last summer but published only last month, decreed a drastic stepping-up of farm collectivization (TIME, Dec. 5). The second speech, made six weeks ago, was called "Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce." It still has not been made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils...

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