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...Chinese Communist reporter last week dropped in at Mao Tse-tung's boyhood village home in Hunan province. "As I visited the rooms where our beloved leader spent the years of his boyhood," he wrote, "I encountered many of his old acquaintances. Chou Pu-hsun, a schoolmate of Mao's, asked me to convey his regards, and said: 'How nice it would be if I could see Chairman Mao once again...
...broadcast from Peking, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai spurned the Assembly Cease-Fire Committee's third proposal in four weeks for a truce in Korea. It was a trick, he cried, designed "to give the United States troops a breathing space." He demanded abject U.N. surrender...
...Chou's proposition was, in effect, as follows: a truce in Korea must be preceded by agreement to withdraw U.N. forces and turn Korea over to Communist control. In addition, Red China must have the right to take Formosa, plus a voice in other Far Eastern settlements and a seat in the U.N. Such agreement should be negotiated by a seven-power conference, including Russia, Red China, India, Egypt, Britain, France, the U.S., and the conference should be held in China...
...Survival. A few hours after Chou's reply was in hand, Secretary of State Dean Acheson belabored it as "an outright rejection . . . still further evidence of [Red China's] contemptuous disregard of a worldwide demand for peace." Next day at Lake Success, Warren Austin summoned the free nations again to "united resolution" against aggression...
...reply came at last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...