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...gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...outside world knows little about the man who is generally ranked No. 2 to Mao Tse-tung. Greater headlines have gone to Chou En-lai and to Marshal Chu Teh, but the man next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician. Last week Red China published his 16,000-word keynote speech to the 19-day closed session of the eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. His confident theme: "In the past the party concentrated its efforts mainly on socialist revolution . . . Now we can and must concentrate on socialist construction...
...many Britons eager to try again in the phantom hope of restoring a big Chinese trade, British Labor M.P. Harold Wilson, recently back from Peking and a two-hour interview with Premier Chou Enlai, last week reported a significant new bob and duck in the interminable reeling and trolling of the Communist line...
...Britain were to vote at the U.N. for the admission of the Chinese government and the exclusion of the Chiang Kai-shek representative," Chou En-lai promised to behave better. "It mattered not whether Britain were voted down: probably she would be in a minority," Wilson was told. "But if at any rate her position were made clear, China would immediately agree to the exchange of ambassadors...
Further, reported Wilson, Chou said he had told the leaders of Singapore, "Mr. David Marshall and later Mr. Lim Yew Hock, that he hoped Singapore would, on achieving self-government, remain in the British Commonwealth., He had sent a similar message, through friends of Tengku Abdul Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would...