Word: enlai
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...cold and cloudy day, Nehru's DC-3 touched down at Peking. The Red capital's factories and offices were closed in his honor, and 1,000,000 Chinese lined his route. "Since the dawn of history," croaked Nehru throatily to Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, "India and China have coexisted as good friends . . . We should try to deepen our mutual understanding." But what happened during the next few days showed that the Communists wanted all the understanding to come from Jawaharlal Nehru...
...party dogmatist, who was made head of "the highest organ of state power," the People's Congress Standing Committee. By constitutional definition, the all-powerful Standing Committee has the right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory...
...Nehru and his only daughter, Indira Gandhi (36) will fly to Peking as guests of Chou Enlai. But, of course, the look of neutrality would be scrupulously preserved. While Nehru is in China, India's Vice President Radhakrishnan will be presenting an ivory gavel, carved from an Indian elephant's tusk, to the U.S. Senate. The Senate's gavel, in use since the days of the first Vice President, John Adams, was recently broken by hard-gaveling Richard Nixon. India offers to replace it as "a symbolic gesture of friendship towards...
...courteously after their health, and concerned himself whether or not they were enjoying their visit. Amid the City's glaze work and its splendid vases, cups of fragrant tea were served. Then Mao, flanked by the party's chief theoretician, Liu Shao-chi, and by Premier Chou Enlai, began to speak. Before them in a hall where Chinese emperors once received their vassals, Clement Attlee and his Britons settled back into overstuffed chairs...
...this mean that Chou Enlai, cocky after his victory in Indo-China, was now ready to attack across the Formosa Strait, even at the risk of taking on the U.S. Navy? His words clearly implied that; but U.S. intelligence has reported no unusual military buildup along the China coast during the past six months...