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in the recent instruction, will probably allow communist commercial and
banking organisations more freedom to conduct their business expansion
programmes and here we can expect an intensified campaign to sell China
products following the Autumn Trade Fair now in progress in Canton.
22.
The "friendly hand and the smiling face" will become an even
greater feature of the united front campaign and social and business
approaches will be increased in many sections of the community. It is
probable that "patriotic nationalism" will be developed coincidental with
MAO Study, and will not only be found more palatable within communist
organisations, but will be used as a means of reaching and influencing the
uncommitted sections of the community. Any stress on nationalism is
likely to be increasingly effective, of course, if the Cultural Revolution
settles down sufficiently to permit a period of national reconstruction in
China.
23.
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The strikers' continue to present the communist leadership with
one of its main problems, Here again it seems that economic expediency
is likely to prevail and the communist labour organisation has now been
forced to accept the repercussions of stopping strike pay in the near
future. The adverse effect on morale in communist unions generally is
likely to be widespread but in the long term this is capable of improvement,
although it will take the union leaders a long time to regain the complete
trust of their members. Attempts will continue and be intensified to
recruit employees in the essential services and other areas in which the
"general strike" of June, 1967, largely removed communist union
representation.
2.
A significant field will be education. As soon as the communists
have consolidated their present expansion of schools, we must expect
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