The ''New York Times'' reported:<ref>Foster Hailey, ''New York Times Magazine'', (December 22, 1946), pp. 40-41.</ref>
The ''New York Times'' reported:<ref>Foster Hailey, ''New York Times Magazine'', (December 22, 1946), pp. 40-41.</ref>
{{QuoteBox|Most Americans who have visited Red China are accused of arriving at their judgements according to previously held prejudices. None denies, however, that in Communist China they have found matters of law and order, public health, equitable distribution of food and wealth, and other operations of Government carried out with greater earnestness and success than elsewhere in China or in most of Asia. . .<br>
{{QuoteBox|Most Americans who have visited Red China are accused of arriving at their judgements according to previously held prejudices. None denies, however, that in Communist China they have found matters of law and order, public health, equitable distribution of food and wealth, and other operations of Government carried out with greater earnestness and success than elsewhere in China or in most of Asia. . .<br>
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Another certainty is that the idea they represent, the hope they hold for the landless, overtaxed Chinese peasant, is not one that can be destroyed by force. . .}}
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Another certainty is that the idea they represent, the [[hope]] they hold for the landless, overtaxed Chinese peasant, is not one that can be destroyed by force. . .}}
By 1956, during the [[Three Years of Disasters]], U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew commented,
By 1956, during the [[Three Years of Disasters]], U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew commented,