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...when China admitted a handful of foreign correspondents, including the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, an old China hand, and LIFE'S John Saar. The view turned out to be carefully circumscribed and minimally enlightening. True to his promise to admit Western newsmen "in batches," Premier Chou En-lai last week invited another group of correspondents to China. Included: the New York Times's assistant managing editor Seymour Topping, who has already entered the country, Robert Keatley of the Wall Street Journal, and the Times's star columnist James Reston, who will go in June...
Perhaps the best story to come out of China so far was filed last week by Freelancer Audrey Topping, wife of the Times executive. In a dinner-party interview with Chou, she got his personal account of China's split with the Soviet Union, including a description of a meeting in which Mao told Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin that their dispute would last 10,000 years. Chou said that in 1969, at Kosygin's request, he conferred with the Russian leader for three hours at the Peking airport after Ho Chi Minh's funeral. They agreed...
...owed to the members of the U.S. Ping Pong team. Because of their friendly reception in Red China, we will hopefully be able to ease the tensions of more than two decades. Thanks is also due President Nixon, who acted swiftly to thaw relations with Red China. Premier Chou En-lai has stated that he would like to visit the U.S. Let's hope that if he does come, he will receive the same friendly greeting that the Ping Pong team received...
...Chiang Kaishek, Soong was called the Alexander Hamilton of China for making economic reforms as Chiang's young Minister of Finance. Soong later rallied the support of Shanghai bankers for the Generalissimo in his 1927 power struggle with the Communists. But during World War II Soong cooperated with Chou En-lai in forging a Nationalist-Communist alliance against the invading Japanese. As Foreign Minister, Soong shuttled among Western capitals seeking financial help for his government. He scored his biggest success with F.D.R. Appointed Premier in 1944, Soong resigned two years later after failing to solve his country...
Miss Universe? Meantime the delicate business of diplomatic signaling continued. Secretary of State William Rogers took pains to underscore the Administration's official attitude to Premier Chou En-lai's comment that a "new page" had been opened in Sino-American relations. Said Rogers: "We would hope that it becomes a new chapter." President Nixon pointedly called in Team Leader Steenhoven to congratulate him on his role in the affair. Steenhoven himself waited until he was home in Detroit to announce the next step, an American tour "in the near future" by a Chinese table tennis team...