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Canton's Tung Fang (East Wind) Hotel, however, stands in unhappy contrast. Wall Street Journal Reporter Robert Keatley found it "dark and dingy . . . perhaps China's worst," and Timesman Tillman Durdin recalls "the foul, surly service we got in Canton, perhaps because the hotel was overtaxed then by trade-fair visitors...
...window unexpectedly opened on Mao Tse-tung's xenophobic society last month when China admitted a handful of foreign correspondents, including the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, an old China hand, and LIFE'S John Saar. The view turned out to be carefully circumscribed and minimally enlightening. True to his promise to admit Western newsmen "in batches," Premier Chou En-lai last week invited another group of correspondents to China. Included: the New York Times's assistant managing editor Seymour Topping, who has already entered the country, Robert Keatley of the Wall Street Journal...
...first group of American newsmen were restricted to major cities (85% of the population lives in the countryside) and apparently saw little that the Chinese did not want them to see. Correspondent Durdin wrote that "the places visited were for the most part showplaces." He also noted that "improved industrial output has given them a little better livelihood." The nation is stable and "back at work in a settled, regulated way," Durdin concluded...
...addition to Rich and Roderick, NBC's Tokyo Operations Manager lack Reynolds was also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...
Late last week the visit of the table tennis team ended, and the visas of some correspondents expired with it. But Rich and Roderick got three-day extensions, and Durdin's visa will last a full month. Observers were encouraged that China had opened its borders to veterans who had known the country before Mao, and might be less easily snowed by tour guides than younger...