Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arbitrarily overruled the Labor Tribunal. But above all, Nehru showed telltale signs of jealousy. For one thing, Attlee & Co. Ltd. (of Great Britain) had poached on his position as No. 1 interpreter to the world of Chinese Communist behavior. For another, Red China's Prime Minister Chou En-lai has of late been displaying a Nehru-slighting tendency to pose as the No. 1 Asian. Beware of "Communist professions," Nehru told a student group. "China often says corruption has been eliminated, but China continues to publish the names of people executed for corruption...
Soaked by the rain, Nehru gave his blessing to thousands of wretched peasants. Then pausing, he began to philosophize. He still seemed mesmerized by thoughts of Chou En-lai and Mao. "If China could build a 1,000-mile canal in 80 days using her vast manpower, there is no reason why it cannot be done here ... I want to try the Chinese method." Meanwhile, Nehru told his dripping audience, Indians should remember that the "river is life." He left them with an obscure parable: "Though a river causes great devastation, it cannot be construed as an enemy...
Said ex-Premier Antoine Pinay: "In comparing the conferences of Geneva and Brussels, Mr. Premier, you have implied it was easier to get along with the Communist countries than with our friends and allies. If Chou En-lai seemed a more ami able negotiator than Monsieur Spaak, that is no doubt because you did more to reach understanding with the former than with the latter...
...Chou En-lai's brazen attempt to separate Britain from the U.S. shocked many. "The Chinese are showing their hand," said the Manchester Guardian, "with almost insulting frankness." The conservative Time and Tide reminded its readers of the British tradition that M.P.s traveling abroad "should say nothing, do nothing and allow themselves to be involved in no situations which would be likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with...
...bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately, Chou En-lai suggested that Britain might join Red China's long-sought chain of "Asia for the Asians" nonaggression pacts-indicating that Chinese Communism, not six years out of its rebel caves, aspired to break the Anglo-U.S. alliance...