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Smiling, sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands...
...Harvard Ph.D. graduates are among the right-hand aides of Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China...
They are the Pu brothers--Shou-chang and Shan--and they both accompanied Chou on his tour of South Asia. Shou-chang got his doctorate in Economics here in 1946, while his brother received a similar degree four years later. Both did their undergraduate work at the University of Michigan...
...clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes from acting as the world's conscience, there is no substitute for dramatic gestures. The first fruit of this realization was on a trip to Peking in January 1955, to negotiate with Chou Enlai for the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers. "Everything the Secretary-General said to Chou could have been said by diplomatic pouch," admits a U.N. bureaucrat. "But the physical fact of the trip served to focus world attention and moral pressure, and the flyers were turned loose...
...Kong capable of such efficient exploitation, the Communists stood to gain by using the violence to 1) test Hong Kong's strength for a possible Communist takeover, 2) to discredit the Nationalists internationally. A pointed warning came from Communist China, just across the border. "China," said Red Premier Chou Enlai, "can neither ignore nor permit such events." Said an official broadcast: "We will watch carefully whether the British are capable of maintaining peace and order in Hong Kong and Kowloon...