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...Sins. The climax of the struggle came in mid-September. In one frantic four-day period Chou En-lai abruptly canceled most of his appointments and the entire Politburo dropped from public view, possibly because its members had been summoned to an emergency session in Peking. China's military leaders also disappeared, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made...
Though the Chinese delegation was still en route to New York, it had already had quite an impact on the U.N. In the General Assembly and in the multitudinous committees, urgent matters were being set aside until the men from Peking could be heard from. The General Assembly, for example, delayed debate on a Soviet-sponsored proposal for a nuclear disarmament conference attended by all nations (China is known to favor such a meeting). Also waiting for the Chinese, the U.S. postponed a major address to the budget committee...
...force have also dropped out of sight -and did not even reappear last week to greet their visiting Pakistani counterparts, an occasion when protocol absolutely demanded the presence of Peking's military chiefs. Still, the only certain judgment was that, whatever the nature of the struggle, Premier Chou En-lai was not likely to come up a loser. The abundance of Chou protégés on the delegation due in Manhattan this week seems proof that the agile Chou has not lost his footing...
Even though they have never lived in the U.S., the top men in the delegation are familiar with Americans. Chiao was a capable young aide of Chou En-lai's in the 1940s when Chou was dealing with such Yankee generals as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and George C. Marshall. Later, Chiao and his wife, who had been Chou's pretty press spokesman during World War II, were a popular couple in Hong Kong, where they represented Peking's news agency. At the 1961 Geneva Conference on Laos, where he was Chou's chief counselor, Chiao proudly...
Vogel said that there was an inner power struggle in China and that "in the showdown Chou En-lai came out clearly ahead...