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Totalitarianism Unruffled. Against this background of unruffled totalitarianism, Premier Chou Enlai, the No. 3 Red, calmly forecast that in six years Red China would rank fifth or sixth among industrial powers. Chou based his prediction on the first five-year plan (1953-57) targets, which, he said, had already been exceeded. Despite flood and droughts, grain production for the current period would total about 1.1 billion tons. As a consequence, said Chou, a 35% increase in agricultural production will be the goal of the second five-year plan, beginning next year. This, said he, should make possible a 100% increase...
Mindful of Russia's own amazing climb to industrial power in 28 years, there were Western observers who concluded uncomfortably that Chou's targets, high as they are, may well be achieved. China's Red masters were doing well-too well for the peace of mind of the free world...
...Machines. Last spring Gentili shepherded to China a party of top industrialists, including some from the huge Montecatini chemical group and the Farmitalia agricultural implements combine. They closed $15 million in contracts for the sale of fertilizer, rayon and other nonstrategic items. Regally received by Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, Gentili himself won agreements for the export of strategic metals, machinery and tractors -if and when Italy lifts her embargo on strategic exports to China. Gentili is now busily lining up export-hungry Italian businessmen to try to do just that...
...Everything." His trip last spring to the Bandung conference, where Nehru and Chou En-lai made much of him, helped convince Nasser that he had become a world figure. His pressagents, exuberantly whooping up the cult of the Cairo hero, seem to have influenced him at least as much as their readers. Two years of almost unbridled authority have also left their mark. "I know everything that goes on in this country," he told a U.S. newsman recently. "I run everything myself...
While the U.S. hesitated, anxious not to start an arms race in the Middle East, the Russians saw the chance they had been looking for. The Nasser who found Chou En-lai's coexistence charter at Bandung "quite convincing" sounded to Communists like their kind of neutralist−a soldier, a conspirator with a smoldering sense of anticolonial vengeance. By offering arms to Nasser, the Communists could strike hard at the Baghdad Pact. They could also win a foothold at last in the Eastern Mediterranean...