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...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
...does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where he was hailed as a conquering hero of anticolonialism, he pumped the hands of Nehru and Chou Enlai; he bartered a mass of Egyptian cotton for products from Red China. Last year, he sent a trade mission to Moscow, and next year he plans to go there himself...
...harem of concubines. But he was no mere playboy Oriental monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head-in-sand neutrality. Cambodia, he decided, is a monarchy ruled by politicians; he would become a politician...
...warned that there would be no transfer to sovereignty "by peaceful means," as Prime Minister Nehru suggested. The challenge was an embarrassment to Nehru, who constantly advises other countries to settle their differences by nonviolent means, and is reported to have boasted to Red China's Chou Enlai: "Watch how we get Goa without using force." This month, as India's Independence Day approached, in the absence of any better policy towards Goa, Nehru permitted his followers to try satyagraha again...
...Chou was merely inviting the Chinese Nationalist government to surrender without a fight. Yet Washington decided to put the best face on Chou's remarks. Said Dulles at his news conference: "Chou En-lai's speech went further in the renunciation of force than anything he had said before." Dulles, who had not yet heard Colonel Arnold's story, added hopefully that there was some evidence that the Chinese Communists had"laid their pistol down," and that "it might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door...