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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After recently completing a vacation trip through Canada, I headed back to Canada again almost immediately. This time the trip was in line of duty. At Ste.-Adèle-en-haut, Que., we had scheduled a meeting of the people who work on TIME'S Canadian edition...
...arbitrarily overruled the Labor Tribunal. But above all, Nehru showed telltale signs of jealousy. For one thing, Attlee & Co. Ltd. (of Great Britain) had poached on his position as No. 1 interpreter to the world of Chinese Communist behavior. For another, Red China's Prime Minister Chou En-lai has of late been displaying a Nehru-slighting tendency to pose as the No. 1 Asian. Beware of "Communist professions," Nehru told a student group. "China often says corruption has been eliminated, but China continues to publish the names of people executed for corruption...
Soaked by the rain, Nehru gave his blessing to thousands of wretched peasants. Then pausing, he began to philosophize. He still seemed mesmerized by thoughts of Chou En-lai and Mao. "If China could build a 1,000-mile canal in 80 days using her vast manpower, there is no reason why it cannot be done here ... I want to try the Chinese method." Meanwhile, Nehru told his dripping audience, Indians should remember that the "river is life." He left them with an obscure parable: "Though a river causes great devastation, it cannot be construed as an enemy...
...shrewdest political brains and a politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...
Happy Hospitality. But the delegation, in the happy swirl of rice wine, tinkling gongs, friendly smiles and endless toasts, seemed not to notice. Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with