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...Czechoslovakia. A husky six-footer, Johnson spent half a year in a Japanese internment camp in Manchuria and last year, at the Indo-China peace conference in Geneva, opened the first round of negotiations for the return of U.S. prisoners. Last week in Geneva Johnson faced an old antagonist: Red China's Wang Ping-nan, 47, Ambassador to Communist Poland and a close friend of Chou Enlai...
...There are few situations in life that cannot honestly be settled and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice on a dark night." -Old Chinese Proverb...
...their unfriendly acts the Communists had achieved what men of good will had been unable to achieve (and what the Communists themselves least wanted) the pledged unity of the West. Said Premier Edgar Faure: "French-German quarrels have no meaning when we face an even more dangerous antagonist...
...Rather permit you to preserve the secret of your tactics, to lock up your documents in the vault, to send your witness to board in some obscure village, and then, reserving your evidential resources until the final moment, to marshal them at the trial before your surprised and dismayed antagonist, and thus overwhelm...
Keeping Up Appearances. The foreign audience that Molotov was probably most interested in satisfying was in Peking. Like any foreign minister, he found it harder to reassure an ally than to fulminate against an antagonist. For the benefit of the high-riding comrades in Peking, Molotov effusively corrected himself after referring to the camp of world Communism "headed by the U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled...