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...discipline by the most efficient group of administrators China had ever known. Heading that group was a man so mild and affable in manner that many a Westerner who knew him in the past had suspected him of only playing at Communism. He is a professional political organizer named Chou Enlai. Once he had found it necessary to remind one of his American admirers: "You mustn't forget, you know, that I am a Communist...
...Premier Chou Enlai, a mandarin's son whose smiling, suave manner had once persuaded many U.S. diplomats that he was one of the "all right" Communists, last week quietly announced a stupendous fact. Summing up the accomplishments of 20 months of Red rule, Chou reported that the Communist government has killed 1,000,000 "saboteurs" and Nationalist guerrillas.* The figure does not include an estimated 500,000 executed in the current purge of "counter-revolutionaries...
Toward the Dalai troupe the Reds were cordial but noncommittal. Premier Chou En-lai gave a dinner in their honor, at which the guests presented Chou with samples of Tibet's golden sand and a pair of newly sprouted horns of a young deer. Said a Dalai delegate: "We will do our best to achieve a peaceful liberation for Tibet." Then Chou showed a film glorifying the power of China's Red army...
...Panchen Lama, who came to Peking in person from Tsinghai Province, was met enthusiastically at the station by 90 high Red officials, including Premier Chou, three Vice Presidents, 500 civil bigwigs, Peking's Tibetan colony, and a brass band. That night, after a banquet, Chou declared benignly that Mao Tse-tung had "long ago decided to liberate Tibet and help the Tibetan people return to the big family of China." Replied the 14-year-old Panchen Lama: "We firmly support the policy of Chairman...
Sociology Professor Chou Ching-yao: "I used to assign English books to my students, and always wanted my students to go to America . . . This was a most serious crime...