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...tortuous articles for the occasion. A new opera, the theme of which was the Communists' famed "long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only the first.' " Planes roared overhead and scattered...
...Honey. But then the Red premier, affable Chou En-lai (TIME, June 18), invited a group of Chinese Catholic bishops and priests to tea. All that Peking wanted, he explained, was a declaration of Chinese Catholics' essential patriotism. Catholicism, he said, had been a good thing for China. Surprised and pleased, the Catholics drew up a statement supporting the ultimate aim of an all-Chinese clergy, "but only under the authority of, and in union with, the Supreme Pontiff of Rome, since without that the Church in China would cease to be Catholic...
When they were unable to get the newspapers to publish either their statement or Premier Chou's honeyed words, the Catholics concluded that the whole tea party had been a brazen attempt to fool them into giving a fuzzy declaration that could be twisted to look like a breakaway from Rome. Meanwhile, as the Reds turned on the heat, signatures began sprouting all over China on petitions for an "Independent Catholic Church." Archbishop Anthony Riberi, the apostolic internuncio to China, decided that the time had come to take off the gloves...
...career, he got his first good look at the East. He set off on a westward jaunt around the world in 1940, reported the war's effects on Free China and Hong Kong, took a look behind the Japanese lines, and, incidentally, had several interviews with TIME coverman Chou Enlai...
...these signs pointed to the fact that the Korean war had proved an expensive venture for China. Last week, as General Marshall once again dropped in on Chou En-lai's side of the world to pay a surprise visit to the Korean front (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), rumors of cease-fire filled the air in Western capitals. They were given added impetus by a recent Chinese republication of a 1937 essay by Mao Tse-tung underlining the fact that a revolutionary leader must be able to switch policies at a moment's notice according to changing circumstances...