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Many thanks for all your enlightening news on Chou En-lai [TIME, May 10] - the kind of information so badly needed. You handled the deadliest weapon against the threatening Communistic . . . systems in the widespread publication of the naked truth on the personalities of these Red gods and the crimson trails of their careers ... I have no doubt that the terrible truth of such consistent information will have greater effect than the now flourishing hate campaigns launched by the Russian press...
...During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai...
...truck on which they traveled was so overcrowded that they rode atop the driver's cab. At that time, Chou-as well as the other Chinese Communist leaders-wore peasant garb and espoused poverty. Chou was very friendly; Mao Tse-tung even asked my husband to come back and organize a Y.M.C.A. in Yenan. Both, however, told my husband that no Christian could join the Chinese Communist Party...
Recognized Hazards. Most important, the Communists' stalling had at last raised some doubts in British minds. At week's end Foreign Secretary Eden sought out Chou En-lai and warned him that if he presses his demands too far, the U.S. might be provoked to immediate action. Chou, thinking he saw an opportunity to exploit allied differences, replied slyly that he counted on the British to restrain the U.S. Eden was shocked into firmness. There should be no mistake, he said. If a showdown came in Indo-China, Britain would fight at the U.S.'s side...
...delights in recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take tea with Chou En-lai and dine with Molotov? The British newspapers are running over with enthusiasm for these exploits, without stopping to consider whether anything is gained by drinking tea with the Chinese Communists...