Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...
...that the male toads outnumbered the females two to one, that the males walked while the females hopped as well. They also learned that in a 24-hour period of the migration, the average toad covers at least three-quarters of a mile, that he will refuse to eat en route, no matter how many worms are dangled in front of him. Occasionally the males fight over a female, and the fights sometimes turn into a regular free-for-all. Gradually the boys' notebooks began to fill with observations: "4th March, 1952. In order to measure certain migrating males...
...Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder at the harm that might be done once such a deft and ruthless professional as Red China's Chou En-lai gets to maneuvering the inexperienced, the emotional and the naive among the men who represent more than half of humanity...
...Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business as he crossed one international border after another. On his trips to reinforce the free world outposts, Dulles sometimes merely shored up a wall that the Reds had breached...
...refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris en route to Lausanne, he told reporters: "I am not renouncing politics. I will remain in politics all my life." But, mindful of the rumors, he cautiously added: "I have no political projects at the present...