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...curious. Is the odd-looking vessel so strategically placed at the feet of Premier Chou En-lai during audiences with Western visitors [Aug. 23] a spittoon, a good, old-fashioned chamber pot, an incense burner or a Chicom fire extinguisher used for dampening Western overtures? (MRS.) ANDREA R. WALCOTT Kingston, Jamaica...
China-ization. Turning away from global matters, Chou En-lai was even more interesting. He showed considerable knowledge of the U.S. A friend had told him that the blacks were making progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed...
...some work, your New York Times, by making public the secret Pentagon papers," Chou complimented Reston, who helpfully offered to print any unpublished Peking papers of the period. Sorry, said Chou, "we have no secret papers like that." Chou acknowledged that China's top leaders were "old men." But there is a combination of the old, the middle-aged and the young running all the instruments of government, he said. Had the revolutionary leaders kept personal records or journals? "No," Chou replied, "none of us kept a diary and none of us want to write our memoirs...
Come Again. Dinner was described by Reston as a "neverending stream," featuring such fare as sea slugs and quail eggs. Chou proposed a toast with a glass of the strong Chinese liquor mao-tai, but did not swallow a drop. At one point, Reston went after a decorative but tough leaf under his portion of ground pork and drew a polite reproof from his host: "Please don't eat the lotus leaves...
Dinner over, Reston and Chou resumed their interview until past midnight. Then, Reston reported, Chou "took us to the door, which could not have been more than a quarter of a mile away." There would be no chance to see Mao Tse-tung this time, said Chou. "The Chairman is preoccupied with other matters. But of course you can come with your President next time." Reston declined with thanks. "I'll worry about him from now till then and let you worry about him after he gets here...