UN General Assembly
1951

61. The record of the proceedings concludes with the following paragraph — and I quote from the official record: “The public security organ of the people, in compliance with the wishes of the broad masses of the people, put the seven worst criminals on a cart which, after circulating through the whole city, reached the place of execution. When the criminals’ cart and the propaganda carriage which accompanied it moved through the streets of the city, the people along the route pronounced oaths of condemnation on the criminals. The people at the foot of the Pearl Bridge and on Tongfu Street were especially enthusiastic and called out that the criminals should be made to eat many bullets”. 62. I notice that the Paris paper, Le Monde, of 8 November, published an account of similar proceedings in Shanghai for the night of 27 April and the next day. It is worth reading.