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After six weeks, Mao flew hurriedly back to Yenan. Communist bigwig Chou Enlai, in charge of Yenan's public relations, remained in the big city as liaison officer until negotiations broke down. Chou is the smoothest, most urbane of the Communist leaders; in school he was famous for his female impersonations in theatricals, his most brilliant role being that of a sexy peasant wench in a play called One Dollar...
Back in Paris, he became a bigwig at the Scientific Institute of Economic and Social Research, a writer on economics for Léon Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well...
Died. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 73, onetime bigwig Italian diplomat, who, as a delegate to the League of Nations, was Mussolini's chief apologist for the invasion of Ethiopia; in Rome...
Died. Professor Ludwig Christian Alexander Karlovich Martens, Soviet engineer and onetime party bigwig, "ambassador" to the U.S. of the unrecognized Bolshevik government (from 1919 to 1921); of unexplained causes; in Moscow...
Died. Richard W. Lawrence, 70, New York financier and Chamber of Commerce bigwig, onetime (1928-29) president of the National Republican Club; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...