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...Wilson Fielder knew the Far East as well as he did his own country: China was his first home. The son of U.S. Baptist missionaries, he was born in Cheng-chow, learned to speak Chinese as he learned English. After grade and high school at American schools in Honan Province, he went to the U.S. to college, studied journalism and history at Texas' Baylor University, in due time broke into the newspaper business as a reporter on the Waco News-Tribune...
McNeil repeatedly addressed Cheng as "Mr. Ambassador." At length the Chinese politely asked: "After this, how can you still call me Mr. Ambassador?" Painfully, McNeil answered: "Once an ambassador, always an ambassador." The Chinese musingly released a barbed shaft: "In my country we have a similar saying, 'Once a friend, always a friend...
When they finally got down to business, friend McNeil explained to friend Cheng that Britain would maintain de facto contact with the Nationalists in Formosa. Cheng and his staff would have three months to vacate the stately embassy in London's Portland Place before the Communists moved in. Then, if they needed sanctuary, the Nationalist representatives might stay on as exiles in Britain...
...time for friends to part. Cheng promised to send McNeil an autographed copy of his book, China Molded by Confucius. McNeil insisted on escorting Cheng to the Foreign Office door...
...Worship Caesar . . ." Next day, in his embassy's tapestry-hung reception room, Cheng spoke less subtly but no less wisely. Britain's recognition of Red China, he said, "is equivalent to burying us while we are still very much alive . . . Homage to force and violence is very dangerous . . . for if you worship Caesar you will have Caesars-and what is worse, their bad imitators . . . One day you will need us again...