Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your radio is insulting us and encouraging subversion on our soil." And when Red China's Chou En-Lai sent a formal invitation to visit Peking, Norodom shrugged: "I have enough worry on my hands...
Chou was merely inviting the Chinese Nationalist government to surrender without a fight. Yet Washington decided to put the best face on Chou's remarks. Said Dulles at his news conference: "Chou En-lai's speech went further in the renunciation of force than anything he had said before." Dulles, who had not yet heard Colonel Arnold's story, added hopefully that there was some evidence that the Chinese Communists had"laid their pistol down," and that "it might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door...
Communist props were everywhere. There was a Communist "pavilion of peace" and a little African girl at the entrance, selling a booklet entitled "South Africans in the Soviet Union." Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai cabled a message of support. To most of the 4,000 Africans who listened to the vivid harangues, much of the Marxist language probably made little sense when translated into Zulu or Sotho. But to the small group of Negro intellectuals, a "Freedom Charter," introduced at the meeting, did have an appeal. With the literates among them leading, Africans, Indians and colored folk...
...ease tension in the Formosa area," said Communist Chou En-lai in a speech broadcast from Peking last week, "the-Chinese Government is willing to sit down and enter into negotiations with the U.S. Government . . . The Chinese people have two possible means to liberate Formosa, namely by war or by peaceful means. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means, so far as it is possible." This was substantially what Communist Chou had said after Bandung last month and, with its familiar qualifying clauses, seemed hardly calculated to advance the chances...
...SHAI LAI...