officer in New Guinea. Bishop gives a very interesting and illuminating account of the situation in China. The Chiang Kai Check - T.V. Soong regime, according to him, is rotten to the core and fighting a losing fight against the communists. The nationalist regime seeks to preserve the old feudal order, and is doing it by the harshest methods. The communist movement is a movement of the people. It is not the communism of Moscow, but a peculiarly Chinese version of communism. The communist armies do not ransack the country as the nationalists do. Instead, they do all they can to rehabilitate the country and bring the land under production. When territory is captured the communist soldiers are put to work to repair war damage and plant crops. As the farmers return, farmer's committees are formed to take over the land from the army and distribute it to farmers, growing crops and all, free of cost. Where original landlords remain, they are allowed to retain owner- ship of a part ( I think 40%) of their former lands, and rentals to tenants are fixed to reasonable rates. The communist army pays cash for all its food and supplies. The farmers - about 30% of the population lives on the land - soon learn to trust the well disciplined communist soldiery, inform them of nationalist movements, and take care of their wounded. Captured nationalist soldiers are well treated, kept a couple of months, then given the choice of staying with the communist or returning to their army. Some stay, some don't. Those who return to the nationalist side remember their lot as captives, and when again fighting the communists they do so without fear of being butchered if they give themselves up. Thus the morale and fighting of Chiang's armies is being undermined. During the truce which General George Marshall arranged between nationalists and communists, U.S.I surplus military stores were being handed over to Chiang in great quantity, and a constant stream of other supplies for war was arriving from the United States. Chiang's armies were being trained by Americans. The truce was only a delaying move to give Chiang a chance to get his forces in shape to clean up the communists. This treachery has earned Americans the hatred of all Chinese who are not on Chiang's side. North China is not safe for any white man now. On one occasion Bishop entered communist territory in an American army truck, and was fired on and captured by communist soldiers. When captured he was robbed of everything, but on establishing his identity everything was returned to him. Everything but his watch, which was sent to him two months later. Bishop says that in Germany the people are actually starving in the western zone. Fascist, anti-semitic demonstrations are common. Jews are being brought back to Germany and reestablished, as victims of fascism. This is being done by a U.S. committee which took over from UNRRA. The personnel of this committee apparently is entirely Jewish. With few exceptions Bishop's 300 refugees from Shanghai were a despicable lot and gave a lot of trouble. They were brought to Germany free of charge. There were six physicians in the group, and all of them refused to give medical attention to their fellows without payment. When payment for medical services was arranged, at a flat sum for the ship's voyage, the six so arranged it that only one a day was on duty. When transferring to a train in Italy, some of the Jews acted up and were clubbed by Italian police. (The Italian police are as fascist now as in Mussolini's time). On the train a refugee woman had a miscarriage and was refused attention by the six doctors - the arrangement for payment did not apply to the train journey. These are only a few of the things told by Bishop of the mess in post-war China and Germany.