There is a National Dang Ba, one for every province and one for every hsien. This latter is destined to be the most important of all and. beneath it there are local boards for large towns and sub-locals for smaller villages or districts. In searching for a name in English to describe the Dang Bu the term "Board of Public Safety" suggests itself but! from all that I have seen so far the name "Board of Censors" seems to suit it better. For certainly their' main work up to and including the resent time has been the indict~ ment of almost everything that was: associated with the old order. As their local chairman expressed Jur business is to examine into everything and make report of what. is bad." "And if anything is good you also make a complimentary report?" I asked, His reply wa the affirmative but from the smile that went around the company it} was easy to guess that not many complimentary reports had issued, from their office.
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