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...cold war the appearance of sweet reasonableness sometimes can be as powerful a weapon as a supply of atom bombs. Last week, at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped a psychological blockbuster. After purring about peace and understanding all week long, Chou announced that the Chinese Communists were willing to confer with the U.S. on the question of "relaxing tension" in the Formosa area (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...lexicon relaxing tension means lulling the non-Communist forces to sleep while the Communists build up their strength. Some of the delegates at Bandung understood that meaning and heard Chou's proposal in that perspective, but others were lulled. From the U.S. Government, the reaction was swift and clear and firm...
...long after the first reports of Chou's statement reached Washington, President Eisenhower was on the telephone from his farm in Gettysburg with Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (Secretary John Foster Dulles was at his island retreat in Lake Ontario.) By nightfall, the State Department had issued a reply: "The United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world. In the Formosa region we have an ally in the Free Republic of China and, of course, the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions concerning...
...Chou. Nasser smiled. Chou asked if this was Nasser's first trip out of Egypt and, told that it was, added: "You should take advantage of this trip and travel to all the Asian countries." Nasser smiled again. In Rangoon, the Premiers sipped iced coconut milk and spent hours together conferring on matters coming up at Bandung. Chou En-lai was the first to leave for Bandung, but the last to arrive. Presumably concerned by what happened to a plane carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane...
...some very unusual features. Something must have happened suddenly. There must be a full inquiry." Peking did not wait, either. Even before the delegation left, said the Foreign Ministry, the government had learned of a "sinister plot ... to assassinate the members of the Chinese delegation, headed by Premier Chou En-lai and to sabotage the Afro-Asian Conference," and had warned the British to take special precautions. The Communist government charged the British with "heavy responsibility." The British formally rejected the charge, insisted that they had been warned only against the possibility of Nationalist demonstrations, not sabotage. Therefore no special...