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...Chou's more or less polite words were spoken at a meeting of the National People's Congress in Peking. Politeness was breaking out all over, or, at least, the characteristic churlishness of the Red regime was being held in check. Dutifully responding to recent edicts for freer expression of opinion, deputy after deputy took the floor to criticize the government and urge reforms−more authority for local governments, higher wages, improved living conditions. One deputy revealed that rioting had broken out last year in heavily populated Szechwan province, but that it had been put down "effectively...
With the air of a man being sweetly reasonable, oily-tongued Premier Chou En-lai last week offered to negotiate with Nationalist leaders for the "peaceful liberation" of Formosa, i.e., for its surrender to Red China. In short, he was prepared to be nice about it, if the Nationalists would just give up. Chou omitted his usual derogatory references to the Nationalists, blandly offered to meet with the "Taiwan [Formosa] authorities" either in Peking "or other appropriate places." At the same time Chou assured military personnel and civilians on Formosa that they can return to the mainland on visits whenever...
...recent months, Radio Peking has dropped most of the insults ("running dog," etc.) in front of Chiang Kai-shek's name, now treats him as if he were merely a stubborn old fellow. But Chou could not resist a passing reference to Formosa's "dying gasp." Answered Nationalist China's Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh: "Pure nonsense...
Promises & Problems. Red China first officially launched its offensive against the minds and morale of Chinese students in the U.S. during the summer of 1954. At the first Geneva Conference Chou En-lai accused the U.S. of "persecuting" and "detaining" Chinese students, especially 124 technicians held by the U.S. during the Korean war so that their skills would not be available to the enemy. When the U.S. lifted the ban, only half of the 124 chose to go home, but Red China decided to go after the entire Chinese student body in the U.S. Last March Peking began to register...
Next day he fired off a cable to Communist China's Chou Enlai, whose government had just put on a big trade fair in Cairo and was buying $28 million worth of Egypt's surplus cotton. Two days later, in an action likely to be followed by several other Arab-bloc countries, and likely to speed a showdown on Red China's bid for membership in the U.N. Assembly, Nasser's government extended diplomatic recognition to Peking. U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade first learned what Nasser was up to when Nationalist China's ambassador, the dean...