Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles joked that he would meet Red China's Chou En-lai only if their cars collided. In the maroon-carpeted council chamber in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Dulles never looked at Chou. But Chou's placid face seemed to hold a cobralike fascination for U.S. delegates, who watched his every move. During refreshment time, Chou moved to the buffet table for an orange juice, flanked by Russia's Molotov and Gromyko and followed by platoons of bodyguards with bulging shoulder holsters...
With rhetorical sarcasm, the U.S. Secretary of State asked at Berlin: "Who is this Chou En-lai...
...exiled governor of Formosa: "He has killed people with his own hands." From a U.S. officer who, like many others, once trusted Chou: "I left thinking he was a friend ... If I saw him today I think I would kill him." And from Chou En-lai himself: "You must't forget that I am a Communist...
Mimeograph Message. One of the master dissemblers of the age, Chou En-lai sat, urbane and self-possessed, among the powers at Geneva this week to make war with talk of peace. A dark blue tunic encased his widening but still trim, erect body. The grace of his carriage, the slim, expressive hands and the dark-browed handsomeness of his face belied the man's age (55) and the ugliness he had helped impose on mankind. Chou...
...lai-Premier and Foreign Minister of the Chinese People's Republic, member of the Politburo and Central Committee, veteran of the long intrigue and the Long March, trusted confidant of the Kremlin-spoke at Geneva as one of the masters of a seventh of the world's land surface, a fourth of its people...