Communists: A Sabbath of Witches, A Canceling of Christmas

"Never before in all the history of the Soviet state has such an unbridled anti-Soviet campaign been conducted in any country, even those most hostile to the Soviet Union." The malefactor thus condemned last week by Tass was Red China, whose sparks of civil chaos are falling more on its onetime Communist allies than on anyone else.

In Peking, Chinese mobs manhandled Red diplomats, damaged cars and battered at legation compounds in such a xenophobic frenzy that the Russian, Yugoslav, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Mongolian governments all filed stiff diplomatic protests with the...

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