CHINA: Swath to Success

China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India.

Thus entrenched and resolved to sell...

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