CHINA: Fourteen Million Dead

From reports of agents within Red China, and from day-by-day analysis of local Red newspapers and Red Chinese documents, the American Federation of Labor last week compiled a grisly box score of killings committed by Mao Tse-tung's Red Chinese regime. Among them: ¶Landlords or village despots—4,970,000. ¶Kuomintang (Nationalist) reactionaries—2,950,000. ¶Bandits—2,600,000. ¶Treacherous merchants—875,663. ¶Slave laborers impressed into the Red army and worked to death or assigned to the suicide units used in "human sea" assaults—2,127,640.

¶Prisoners of war beheaded, buried alive or otherwise killed for "attempting to escape" or because they resisted Red "thought reform"—524 U.S. troops, 21,400...