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...printing presses rumbled their accompaniment. From Vice Minister of Health Fu Lien-chang came a long eulogy of Soviet medicine; from Feminist Teng Yingchao (wife of Premier Chou Enlai), a brochure extolling Soviet standards in marriage and personal relations...
...Communist Choibalsan died in the Kremlin hospital last January, but Moscow planned to keep a firm grip on the country he created. When the new Premier, U. Tsedenbal, arrived in Moscow last August, he was received with honors equal to those given Chinese Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the airport to shake the Premier's hand was Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky. Tsedenbal and the Russians went into a huddle and called a play calculated to dissolve any lingering impression that Outer Mongolia had traditional attachments to China...
...days of Chou En-lai in Moscow ended with a fanfare fortissimo. Joseph Stalin himself gave a state dinner in the Kremlin for Red China's visiting Premier. The Chinese reciprocated with a banquet in the grand ballroom of the Metropole Hotel; their thousand guests sat at 50 tables, and Chou moved about, gaily drinking to the health of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Peking's press and radio hailed the Moscow communiqués of the Sino-Soviet talks as proof of an "impregnable alliance...
...signed between the Communist states and Japan,* they will not turn over to the Chinese the powerful naval base of Port Arthur, on Manchuria's Liaotung Peninsula. Beyond these specifics, the communiques said only that other "important political and economic questions" had been discussed. At least ten of Chou's top 14 advisers remained behind in Moscow, presumably to work out the Sino-Russian program...
...London guessed that Peking was disappointed because there was no mention of Russian industrial or financial aid, which the Chinese need to withstand the strain of the Korean war. But some of Russia's top military, production and trade experts had taken part in the talks. Very likely, Chou had got less than he wanted-but more than the communiqués admitted...