Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overwhelming congressional endorsement of President Eisenhower's historic message proved, among other things, that men of quite divergent attitudes found in it evidences to support their stoutly held positions. Senator Knowland could see a line drawn and a determination to stand firm in Asia. Premier Chou En-lai denounced it loudly as "a barefaced war cry" and a "brazen threat of agression." But to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden, who has made a fine art of picking out what he finds most useful in others' policies, the key Eisenhower phrases were: "We would welcome action...
...Anthony had been waiting for, and working for. To some State Department officials, the President's mention of a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire meant only that "you've got to show sympathy to the idea of stopping the shooting," and they confidently counted on Chou En-lai to reject...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, said that Eisenhower's request put the United States in a strong position by advocating a cease-fire under United Nations suspices, especially in view of Chinese Communist Premier Chou En Lai's subsequent rejection of this approach...
Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...
...Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder at the harm that might be done once such a deft and ruthless professional as Red China's Chou En-lai gets to maneuvering the inexperienced, the emotional and the naive among the men who represent more than half of humanity...