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But there must be a catalytic pressure.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years.

The family is largely broken up ; ;

and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

Now the government must do that ; ;

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security.