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...Peace & Relaxation." In one cable Communist Chou angrily denounced the U.S. for "seizing" Formosa and "manufacturing" a mutual-security treaty with the Nationalists there (TIME, Dec. 13). "To convict foreign spies caught in China is China's internal affair," he said coldly. "There is no justification at all for the United Nations to try to interfere. . . No amount of clamor on the part of the U.S. can shake China's just stand of exercising its own sovereign rights...
...Chou's other cable, sent first, referred Hammarskjold to the later message for "the case of the U.S. spies." However, Chou continued cordially: "In the interests of peace and relaxation of international tensions, I am prepared to receive you in our capital, Peking, to discuss with you pertinent questions. We welcome you to China...
...Chou's double cable talk made sense-for the Communists. Obviously, he wanted to cut off any discussion of the captured Americans-the purpose of Hammarskjold's trip. At the same time, he was glad to receive the U.N. chief as an envoy to his capital, and determined to discuss broader issues than the fate of the 15 flyers...
After he got Chou's cables, Hammarskjold flew to Stockholm to join the Swedish Academy of Letters (replacing his late father, Hjalmar Hammarskjold, Sweden's World War I Premier). While there, he lunched with Keng Piao, Red China's ambassador in Stockholm, to make practical arrangements for the trip and perhaps to set up a deal with Keng Piao's master. He is scheduled to return to the U.N. briefly this week, to leave shortly after Christmas for the 12,000-mile flight to Peking's marble halls and flinty masters...
...What Chou obviously has in mind is a much bigger deal-or at least a propaganda maneuver in which the Communists can turn their loss of prestige in the U.N. vote into a discussion of Red China's entry into...