The Communists had banned it as superstition, but the custom was coming back.

As Suen wrote to Adelson, the Communists had banned gambling not only because it was against party principles but because "it has been a curse to my people way back in history like opium.

He contends that the issue of banned books - and not anti-Semitism - is the point about the publication here of "Mein Kampf": the Communists banned it, too.

The local Communists in the city council would ban certain plays, and we would produce them anyway in the National Theater.

Communists responded by revoking Czechoslovakian citizenship of many of these refugees and banned them from returning to their homeland.

She was worshipped a millennium ago by fishermen in southeastern China, but the Communists banned the practice during the Cultural Revolution.

Gambling flourished in China until 1949, when the Communists took over and banned it as a capitalistic vice.

Some 75 years after the Communists banned the icon painting that Palekh had practiced since the 15th century, replacing it with miniatures of Russian fairy tales, songs and Soviet village idylls, some Palekh artists, like Mrs. Shchenitsina, have returned to religious traditions.

"I think the Communists have already banned themselves," he said in an interview last June.

The situation for the members of the ILP contingent in Spain was made extremely uncomfortable by the attacks on POUM and it became more so as the Communists banned the ILP's Spanish 'brother party'.