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...interview with a French journalist, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai suggested that if worse comes to worst in Southeast Asia, "the Chinese and Russian peoples will close ranks." But there was no sign whatsoever of incipient togetherness last week when Chou met a delegation of Russians in Bucharest, where Communists of all stripes had gathered for the state funeral of Rumanian Party Leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu...
Walking along only a few paces from Chou, Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan remained aloof and impassive as the mourners trooped with the funeral procession across Bucharest toward what is resoundingly known as the Monument to the Heroes in the Struggle to Liberate People and Homeland for Socialism. There Dej was entombed...
Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...
...bear's tail. Rumania's Premier Ion Maurer winged off to Peking last year and agreed to boost trade with the Chinese Communists by 10% . He stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back and kindly volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed, and Russian was dropped as a compulsory language in the schools. The Rumanian press quoted liberally from Chinese diatribes against the Soviets. The Kremlin bit its lip and wangled an invitation for President Anastas Mikoyan to attend Bucharest's celebration of its 1944 "liberation...
...self-educated son of a metalworker, who joined the Reds in 1929, went to jail three years later for leading a rail strike, was freed by the Soviet Army in 1944, and came to power when King Michael was ousted in 1947, ruling ever since; of pneumonia; in Bucharest (see THE WORLD...