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enhanced the reputation of the kaifong movement. There are signs that the two rival groups will busy themselves with activities in competing for popular aclaim, and since the real strength of the kaifong movement lies in the local work of the individual associations it will be a pity if the split
leads to less useful but more dramatic activities centrally organised.
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Other social groups have been involved with C.D.0.s. The Rotary Clubs with their affiliated Rotaract and Interact Clubs have produced both money and manpower for schemes. The sports clubs in the King's Park area, particularly the India Club, have become more outward looking and joined in local activities.
Local public works are not often appropriate in the urban areas but several have been undertaken with help from the Army, Rotary Clubs and the P.W.D. The Army has also made a football ground available regularly and army units have been hosts to kaifong from the districts in which they are stationed.
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Entertainments and sports activities have been popular in all Districts. The short-term nature of these undertakings makes them very appropriate for making initial contacts, and the resulting publicity has helped to build up the image of C.D.O.s as being interested in recreation as well as more mundane affairs. There has been some criticism that C.D.O.s should not waste their time on this sort of thing but there is nothing like a successful short-term operation of this sort to generate mutual sympathy, which has a longer term value, between C.D.O.s and
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