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Three days later, while Taipei crowds looked up and cheered and China's chief of staff, General Chou Chih-jou, literally jigged in delight at Hsinchu air base, six U.S. F80 Shooting Star jets streaked over from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training...
...classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...
Their generation of Chinese was discovering (almost simultaneously) the Bible and Karl Marx. Wu eventually turned to the Bible and became an Anglican; Chou turned to Marx, is now Premier and Foreign Minister of China's Communist government...
...million people to seal their alliance with open panoply. Soviet dignitaries repaired to a Kremlin hall. In their center stood Comrades Joseph Stalin of Russia and Mao Tse-tung of China. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky scratched his name several times. China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did the same. The documents they signed proclaimed that: ¶ For 30 years, Russia and China would aid each other "with all means ... in the event of ... attack by Japan or any state allied with her . . ." (i.e., the U.S.). ¶ Russia would transfer toChina control of the strategic Changchun...
...treaty between the Soviet Union and its satellites elsewhere. Washington and London wondered what other agreements might have been sealed in secret codicils, a ceremonious exchange of handshakes, or nods of the head between the Russians and the Chinese. "We know something about Mr. Mao Tse-tung and Mr. Chou En-lai," observed a British Foreign Office spokesman, "but, frankly, the gentleman we are most interested in is Mr. Quid...