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...cheered the way his representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia's economically powerful Chinese community. Recently, shocked by Russian intervention in Hungary, Sihanouk told his people that Communism is servitude, added: "Polish and Hungarian people have preferred to shed their blood...
Just in case these homilies proved ineffective, Deputy Director of Party Propaganda Chou Yang was ready with another means of persuasion. "Some people," he told a press conference last week, "think ideological remolding is not a pleasant phrase, but people need to wash their brains as well as their faces...
After ten days in Red China, a "goodwill delegation" of eight Japanese Socialists last week flew home to Tokyo with visions of such sugarplums as increased trade and a nonaggression pact between the two countries. "Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai met us, warmly shook our hands and patted our backs," glowed one delegate. "The results obtained are just too numerous to mention." Not so starry-eyed was Tokyo's daily Yomiuri Shimbun, which called Mao's proffered sweetmeats "cakes drawn on a piece of paper. Nobody can taste them...
...from adding feet." Perhaps in reply Ch'iu Ying painted his Intellectual Conversation in the Shade of T'ung Trees, which measures nine feet tall. Done in a freer, bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring the ceremonial elegance of court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such...
...Yangtze. One of Tessai's favorites was Sung Dynasty Poet Su Tung-p'o (they shared the same birthday), and Tessai, in his painting Latter Red Cliff Ode, illustrated the poet's description of a night's boating on the Yangtze River near Huang-chou, culminating in the dramatic moment when the poet saw two cranes fly by (later revealed in a dream to have been two Taoist immortals). The painting is now in the ceremonial process of being declared one of Japan's national treasures...