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After a long period of self-imposed isolation, Peking has apparently decided to recommence at least a measure of diplomatic contact with the West. As a result of the fashion-show conversations, Stoessel was invited to the Chinese embassy for a meeting with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang. The two men talked and sipped tea for more than an hour. Though the content of their discussion remains secret, President Nixon's top foreign policy advisers are convinced that Peking may well be on the verge of resuming formal talks with...
...negotiations, but they feared that the Chinese would take his recall to mean that the border talks were doomed. The Kremlin solved this by ordering Kuznetsov home for a meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Meanwhile Peking, for its part, got into the diplomatic game last week by authorizing its chargé d'affaires in Warsaw to meet secretly with the U.S. ambassador-possibly to revive the Sino-American talks after a two-year hiatus...
...Peking, mounds of earth from newly burrowed bomb shelters line the streets. When British Chargé d'Affaires John Denson peered too closely into one such hole two weeks ago, a shouting crowd surrounded him for two hours and accused him of spying. The Foreign Ministry brushed aside his protests and suggested that perhaps he should stay home, where he belonged...
...When the top U.S. diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
Meanwhile, Chargé Fessenden, 53, a career diplomat, soldiers on in his efficient, unobtrusive way in Bonn. Says Fessenden of the ambassadorial void: "In the day-to-day business of the embassy, it doesn't cause any trouble. As charge, I can see anyone I want to. But for the psychology of the host country, an ambassador is important. He is the chief representative, and sooner or later you have to have a man with the prestige and the personal representation of the President...