Word: chou
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Coincidentally. as he flew into Washington last week, that policy was being tested in Nepal's capital of Katmandu. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived for talks on China's claim to a slice of Nepal containing the world's highest peak, was greeted by paintings of Mount Everest prominently labeled "Nepal." Meanwhile, half a world away. King Mahendra earnestly told a joint session of Congress: "Our policy of nonalignment does not arise from our desire to sit on the fence . . . We shall certainly not be neutral when we are confronted with a choice...
Nepal's border squabble with China was smoothed over by week's end by a return to the traditional split of Mount Everest between Nepal and Tibet. But Nepal's Prime Minister flatly refused Chou's offer of a nonaggression pact. As for Nepal's bedrock problems. King Mahendra. during a month-long tour of the U.S. and Canada, hoped to expand Western sympathy for an awakening land hampered by feudal poverty and widespread (94%) illiteracy...
Smiling his way through mountainous Nepal, whose King was visiting the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was still inwardly seething at the chilly treatment he had received in New Delhi, where neither his charm nor his bullying had produced concessions by the Indians on the prickly frontier squabble. In Parliament, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru defended Chou's visit but minced no words. "The only alternative was to sit and curse like an old woman, or go to war." His talks with Chou, he said, had foundered on "a rock...
...paged in India, Lerner's 'story evoked angry opposition questions, a fudging denial from Menon. Huffed Menon: "Lerner is no gentleman. An English journalist would never report what was said over tea." This week Lerner will end his double educational mission in India by covering the Nehru-Chou talks and holding his last seminar. He leaves with mixed feelings. Nowhere else has he found students so "intellectually hungry" and yet so lacking in "a sense of mission." India is tough on a teacher whose chief creed is that of Mr. Justice Holmes: "It is required...
...with Red China. Bland, approving copy has flowed westward, uncensored, on Red China officialdom ("gracious and courteous"), babies ("cute and chubby and cuddlesome"), the sights in the capital ("Peking is almost ready for the tourists; it has little to be ashamed of and much to be proud of"), Premier Chou En-lai ("vibrant personality"), and industry ("The organization of China's industrial enterprises is excellent"). Sometimes his stories have sounded as if they were translated from the original Red Chinese: "The West must come to China, even if it involves the loss of Formosa. The world has reached...