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...charge was treason, and the testimony proved fascinating. So nervous that he often mumbled incoherently, the once-glib Subandrio admitted to a secret meeting with Chou En-lai in January of last year, in which the Red Chinese Premier had offered weapons to arm 100,000 Indonesian workers and peasants. He also admitted that he had learned that the Communist coup was in the wind but neglected to tell Sukarno about it. Why? Subandrio assumed that the President already knew. Besides, he confessed, "I have an inferiority complex about telling such things to the President...
...martial strains of The East Is Red. Sinologists studied the standing order for clues as to who was up and who was down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards as not being revolutionary enough, was on the stand in a place of honor. Apparently Mao felt that the prestige...
...Guards limit their scorn to foreigners. To Premier Chou En-lai's recent order to stop insulting and beating people, a member of the Red Guards last week replied: "Why shouldn't we insult? We shall also do some beating." The announced targets were "the rightists and revisionists" within the party, but in fact the Red Guards seemed to have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou...
...Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai. He recently ordered cadre leaders to stop beating up Chinese and removing art from public buildings. He also told them to stop pasting up the big-character wall poster that denounced the widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the founder of the first Chinese Republic...
...Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...