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...cold and cloudy day, Nehru's DC-3 touched down at Peking. The Red capital's factories and offices were closed in his honor, and 1,000,000 Chinese lined his route. "Since the dawn of history," croaked Nehru throatily to Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, "India and China have coexisted as good friends . . . We should try to deepen our mutual understanding." But what happened during the next few days showed that the Communists wanted all the understanding to come from Jawaharlal Nehru...
...deputy chairman and legal successor the Congress elected neither Premier Chou En-lai nor Communist Party Secretary Liu Shao-chi, the two men who are generally believed to stand next to Mao in true authority. Instead they chose 68-year-old Chu Teh, the onetime war lord who turned from a life of opium-smoking and concubine-collecting in the 1920s to serve brilliantly as a soldier for the Red cause. Chu's new post appeared, however, to be a quasi sinecure, a sort of recognition of his past services and comparative popularity...
...party dogmatist, who was made head of "the highest organ of state power," the People's Congress Standing Committee. By constitutional definition, the all-powerful Standing Committee has the right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory...
Nehru himself went to the New Delhi airfield one day last week to meet Premier Sastroamidjojo, treated him to a bigger welcoming crowd than Chou En-lai had rated, and weighed him down with garlands and praise. Proudly, Nehru expounded his "Five Principles" for Asian peace, terms he had insisted on incorporating in the Tibet treaty concluded with
...achievement in the further democratization of China's political life," the Peking People's Daily proclaimed as the farce began. Delegates were carefully schooled on who was to get the most respect: after party chairman Mao Tse-tung, "his close comrades in arms. Liu Shao-chi and Chou En-lai." Delegates listened dutifully to onrushes of grey gobbledygook, in which the only interesting point was the renewed slavish dedication to Moscow. From Mao: "The people of our country should learn from Soviet Russia and be prepared [through] several five-year plans to build our country." From Moscow-trained...