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When he heard the news of France's recognition while on tour in Africa, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai broke into rapturous French. "Bonjour, bonjour, comment allez-vous!" he cried to France's ambassador in the Sudan. "That's great. I am very happy." He also recalled that he and Foreign Minister Chen Yi "were both students together in Paris many years...
...learned about life and Marxism in Paris. We loved Paris. I hope to see Paris some day soon." If Chou was angling for a visit, De Gaulle turned a deaf ear, for no invitation came his way. At big moments, le grand Charles likes to be alone onstage...
...just in time to report that country's own brief rebellion against statesmanlike President Julius Nyerere. In the left-leaning police state of Ghana, meanwhile, there was worse trouble for TIME Correspondent James Wilde, who flew down from Paris to cover the African junket of Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. With the London Observer's Anthony Sampson, Wilde was arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked him up was "charming, really charming," reported Wilde...
Nikita Khrushchev had a fine man on hand for the job in Vice President Kassim Hanga, who studied at Moscow's Lumumba University for 21 years. And if Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was interested, he had only to pop over from West Africa and talk with Peking's good friend, Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed. "Babu" would certainly listen...
...will promptly sever diplomatic ties with Paris. The U.S. counseled the Nationalists against a quick break on the grounds that 1) if Red China sticks to its longstanding position that no country may have diplomats in both Peking and Taipei (a view repeated last week by barnstorming Red Premier Chou En-lai in Mali), De Gaulle would be acutely embarrassed and the onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic...