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...last week, the telephone awakened Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations. An aide told him that the Chinese Communists would welcome him to their capital. Delighted, Hammarskjold got ready for a journey on which he will seek the release of 15 Americans captured during the Korean...
...Assembly, by a vote of 47 to 5, had denounced the Reds for holding prisoners in violation of the Korean truce agreement. Immediately, Hammarskjold shot off a cable seeking an audience in Peking "soon after Dec. 26th" with Red China's Premier and Foreign Minister, Chou Enlai. For six days no reply came, other than bitter and belligerent Radio Peking broadcasts. On the seventh day Chou answered adroitly, with, two almost simultaneous cables...
Chou's other cable, sent first, referred Hammarskjold to the later message for "the case of the U.S. spies." However, Chou continued cordially: "In the interests of peace and relaxation of international tensions, I am prepared to receive you in our capital, Peking, to discuss with you pertinent questions. We welcome you to China...
Chou's double cable talk made sense-for the Communists. Obviously, he wanted to cut off any discussion of the captured Americans-the purpose of Hammarskjold's trip. At the same time, he was glad to receive the U.N. chief as an envoy to his capital, and determined to discuss broader issues than the fate of the 15 flyers...
After he got Chou's cables, Hammarskjold flew to Stockholm to join the Swedish Academy of Letters (replacing his late father, Hjalmar Hammarskjold, Sweden's World War I Premier). While there, he lunched with Keng Piao, Red China's ambassador in Stockholm, to make practical arrangements for the trip and perhaps to set up a deal with Keng Piao's master. He is scheduled to return to the U.N. briefly this week, to leave shortly after Christmas for the 12,000-mile flight to Peking's marble halls and flinty masters...