Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space of a few hours, and with little more than a seductive hint, a lifted eyebrow and a meaningful change in the tone of his voice, Red China's Chou En-lai sapped Britain's new-found resolution. In the process, he all but destroyed the purpose of Churchill's trip...
...believe that it is better to face the fact of our disagreement [with the Communists] than to raise false hopes and mislead the people of the world into believing that there is agreement when there is none." In the face of this united front, Molotov and Chou En-lai got their signals crossed. Chou, raging, had blamed the U.S. alone for the impending breakoff...
...protests were forwarded through Humphrey Trevelyan, the British charge d'affaires in Peking. A few weeks ago Trevelyan went to Geneva, and was allowed to get closer to Chou En-lai than he ever got in Peking. The U.S. asked him to try again...
...Americans are here," he was told by one of Chou's underlings. "If they have any complaints, let them come to us directly." Chou En-lai snapped to a Canadian diplomat: "The Americans are behaving like children. We are prepared to sit down and negotiate anything with them at any time. But we insist on being treated as equals, and the Americans refuse to do that...
...Dead Hopes. The bitter facts were that Molotov had killed all hope that the Communists would settle for a cease-fire or a partition of Viet Nam alone. Molotov was demanding all of Indo-China-and on the Communists' own terms. Next day China's Chou En-lai echoed Molotov's every word, rejected the West's plea for an impartial commission of Southeast Asia neutrals, insisted, like Molotov, on settling political issues before a truce was signed. Bedell Smith flung in his face one of Chou's own dictums, spoken in 1945: "Truce...