LONDON, Monday, January 12, 1959
Professor Denis Brogan, a well-known British scholar and author, today expressed the view that China would be the area where the most momentuous happenings are likely to take place in 1959.
"The Chinese are the most numerous people in the world and one of the most competent."
Professor Brogan wrote in an article published in the News Chronicle.
"If they can be remade. If hundreds of millions of human beings can be cut off from their roots, led alike to despise the family and the dead, induce to accept willingly a degree of control by the state that the Russian communists at the moment when they were most "dizzy with success" never dreamed of then we have something new, something formidable, something from our Western point of view, horrible as well as new."
"But our horror will matter not at all if Mao brings it off. Will he?"
"Abandoning all pretence of prophecy, I can only say 'I hope not.'"
"I don't expect 1959 to differ much from 1958 - except in China, wehre the Red Dawn may come up like thunder, or go down in darkness," Professor Brogan added.
Source: Reuter
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