Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...
Meanwhile, North Korea's Nam II, who had not been seen in the flesh since October, dispatched a letter to the U.N. calling for full-scale resumption of truce talks. Nam echoed Chou En-lai's line that 1) no Communist prisoners are really unwilling to accept a return to Communist control; 2) if some seem unwilling, because of "intimidation and oppression," they should be put in custody of a "neutral" country pending final disposition. There was no doubt that this vague proposal could lead to difficulties-if the Communists wanted it to. The basic question was whether...
...surprising absence of a buildup of Malenkov personally. Since the first week, when he made the key funeral speech, was proclaimed Premier and was shown snuggled up to Stalin and Mao in a doctored photograph, he has been neither seen nor heard from. China's Chou En-lai proposed the Korean talks and Molotov seconded them. Beria publicly redressed the "error" of the doctors' purges. Voroshilov announced the price cuts. Such popular gestures are the kind that might be presumed useful in building up Malenkov as the first among his peers and the benign father...
...grim, worried satellite leaders who journeyed to Moscow for Stalin's funeral was Klement Gottwald, 56, President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ceremonies; only Chou En-lai of Red China stood closer. Although, in Moscow's view, Gottwald was merely a tried and trusty puppet, to the Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged the last...
...debt. As if to underline his sense of independence, Mao did not go to Moscow for Joe Stalin's funeral, instead sent a delegation under his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the first news of Stalin's death, Mao cabled President Shvernik, and Chou En-lai cabled Vishinsky; their condolence messages must have reached Shvernik and Vishinsky just as they were being fired, suggesting that Peking had no advance word of Malenkov's shake-up plans...