Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...
Gromyko talked last week about "Austria-type" neutrality for Laos, a phrase that does not make much sense when applied to so primitive a land, but sounds soothing to the British and French. The Chinese are blunter. Marshal Chen demanded "a unified, independent" Laos and did not mention neutrality at all. Obviously, Chen was delighted to hang around indefinitely, flaunting China's power in an area where the West was in disarray. One possible clue was in the length of the lease he took on a fleet of 20 cars. Expiration date: November...
...Washington, President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred urgently with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown, who had been hastily summoned from his post, to discuss, among other things, the advisability of returning exiled, neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma to power. In Peking, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi warned: "If the lawful Laotian government (i.e., the rebels) asked the Chinese government to give aid, I can assure you we would give it." In Paksé, Prince Boun Oum loaded worried Western diplomats on a caravan of elephants and took them on a leisurely tour of surrounding villages, where lithe...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...
...Hong Kong, J. D. Chen denounced this U.S. interference, insisted that every treasure had been brought out of Red China before 1950. In fact, he said, the U.S. was being plain silly in making it so difficult for people to rescue China's treasures from the Communists. The Treasury Department was not impressed, predicted that before it was through it would have rounded up more than $1,000,000 worth of illegal Chinese...