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...this respect, the U.S. could learn from the artful Chou Enlai. who has a talent for making minimal requests of countries he cannot order around. The only request the Communists make of the French, for instance, is not to rearm Germany; they ask the Indians only to be in favor of "Asia for the Asians." Implicit in these small and easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have...
...Communist conquerors of Geneva continued their slow, triumphal progress homeward, waving at friends, accepting bouquets and basking in the plaudits of admirers-and those who suddenly found it wise to be admirers. After listening to Warsaw's official cheers, Red China's Chou En-lai and the Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong moved on to Moscow. There, Foreign Minister Molotov laid on a huge reception, attended by foreign diplomats, top Russian brass and correspondents. Afterward, they were honored with a lavish dinner presided over by Premier Malenkov himself, flanked by the man who jostles...
...nice town, prettier than Glasgow." The other guests got up to go, but Khrushchev persisted, kept tipping his glass with Hayter's. "Now we don't want any war, and we are not afraid of each other." Khrushchev told him. He turned and linked his arm with Chou's. "Now here's a good example of friendship-the Soviet Union and China. That's how we all should be friends." At the end, Malenkov and Chou left together through a double line of applauding guests...
Offensive at Home. Yet Chou's victory was secured against a desperate background that Asians-and the West-seemed incapable of understanding. In a very pressing sense, Chou had to Wave peace in Indo-China...
Bestowing Peace. Yet, needing peace desperately, Chou successfully managed to convince most of the world that he was bestowing it. He did more. Posing as Asian champion of "the irresistible forces of peace," he sought non-aggression pacts with Nehru and the other neutralists, thereby protecting his base from outside and eliminating U.S. influence from Asia...