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...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...
Gist of the communiqués: as promised by the Sino-Soviet Agreement signed in Moscow in February 1950, the Russians will turn over to their Chinese comrades full control of the strategic Changchun Railway in Manchuria by the end of 1952. But the Russians tacked a hard condition on to another 1950 promise: until a peace treaty is 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...
...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...
...that the next of kin have been notified, the story behind Communiqué No. 938 can be told...
Before the shooting died down, three more men were seriously wounded and one of them died eight days later. The rest got safely back, to report the information to which Communiqué No. 938 devoted 41 words...