Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva, Red China's poker-faced Premier Chou En-lai allowed Communist newsmen to photograph him at his assured ease. The pictures were released to Western newsmen, who were not allowed to talk to Chou. It all made a prettied-up picture, to go with the whole confident facade of advancing and unstoppable Communism in Asia...
...would never do such a thing himself that if the Communists asked for too much, the U.S. might get mad and make Indo-China another "Korea." He seemed willing to nibble at the smallest bait. British trade delegations flew in to confer with Chou En-lai about increased British-Chinese trade, and the Foreign Office announced happily that the Chinese had agreed to let some British businessmen leave and allow others to come...
...Gromyko suggested supervision by a "neutral" control commission comprised of Poland, Czechoslovakia, India and Pakistan. Bidault retorted that a commission which merely balanced countries of opposite tendencies would be impotent, as the Korean commission had shown, and "being impotent is not the same as being neutral." To Chou En-lai's claim that Communist countries are as neutral as can be, Bidault whipped out a 1940 quotation from Mao Tse-tung: "From now on, the word 'neutrality' is only good to deceive the people...
Recognized Hazards. Most important, the Communists' stalling had at last raised some doubts in British minds. At week's end Foreign Secretary Eden sought out Chou En-lai and warned him that if he presses his demands too far, the U.S. might be provoked to immediate action. Chou, thinking he saw an opportunity to exploit allied differences, replied slyly that he counted on the British to restrain the U.S. Eden was shocked into firmness. There should be no mistake, he said. If a showdown came in Indo-China, Britain would fight at the U.S.'s side...
...recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take tea with Chou En-lai and dine with Molotov? The British newspapers are running over with enthusiasm for these exploits, without stopping to consider whether anything is gained by drinking tea with the Chinese Communists...