Appeal For Unity Among Chinese

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 15

Appeal For Unity Among Chinese

(NZ.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

PEKING, April 17. The Peking “People’* Daily” today called on the Chinese people to "be united and struggle to seek new victory.” The Chinese Commun*. Party newspaper published a front-page editorial commenting on the results of the National People's Congress, which ended last night. The “People’s Daily” said: “In the past four years we gained great achievements on all front lines. More than 500 million peasants were organised in people’s communes, raising agricultural collectivism to a higher level.” The editorial said three years of natural calamities had caused "great difficulties” which were being overcome. “For the present, . . . the most difficult time has passed, and the economic situation of our country ha* begun to take a turn for the better.”

The “People’* Daily” said: “Various heavy industry departments should increase energetically their production of good* needed for agriculture as well as the raw materials. equipment and fuel needed by light industries, and carry out positively internal adjustments.” The editorial called for unity of all nationalities and classes of China's people and sgid “smears and slanders of

our people by United States imperialism and it* followers can only stimulate our people towards even closer unity.” In Britain, the “Guardian” said today that China was a nation where sign* of a new flexibility were everywhere apparent—even in relations with the Soviet Union. “There is a new effort to win the co-operation of nonCommunists, of those who are ‘expert but not Red,’ of religious believer*, of national minorities,” the newspaper said in an editorial. “All these aspiration* have long been part of official policy: how far they will, or can. now be translated into action remain* to be seen.” The “Guardian” said that economic planning might be coming to China at last: the old slogan “Let politic* take command” was giving place to the still unexpressed doctrine “let economic* take command.” The first item on the programme wa* to increase agricultural production and to send worker* and functionaries back to the land where they would be easier to feed. (Earlier Report, Page 22)

New Government Mr Ahmad Bach Rel Adama* last night formed a new government in Syria, accord.ng to Damascus Radio report* quoted by Amman Radio.— ArMfnan (jordan), April 17.