Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honey. But then the Red premier, affable Chou En-lai (TIME, June 18), invited a group of Chinese Catholic bishops and priests to tea. All that Peking wanted, he explained, was a declaration of Chinese Catholics' essential patriotism. Catholicism, he said, had been a good thing for China. Surprised and pleased, the Catholics drew up a statement supporting the ultimate aim of an all-Chinese clergy, "but only under the authority of, and in union with, the Supreme Pontiff of Rome, since without that the Church in China would cease to be Catholic...
...these signs pointed to the fact that the Korean war had proved an expensive venture for China. Last week, as General Marshall once again dropped in on Chou En-lai's side of the world to pay a surprise visit to the Korean front (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), rumors of cease-fire filled the air in Western capitals. They were given added impetus by a recent Chinese republication of a 1937 essay by Mao Tse-tung underlining the fact that a revolutionary leader must be able to switch policies at a moment's notice according to changing circumstances...
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Toward the Dalai troupe the Reds were cordial but noncommittal. Premier Chou En-lai gave a dinner in their honor, at which the guests presented Chou with samples of Tibet's golden sand and a pair of newly sprouted horns of a young deer. Said a Dalai delegate: "We will do our best to achieve a peaceful liberation for Tibet." Then Chou showed a film glorifying the power of China's Red army...
...Lai Chau last week, Regional Counselor Ter-Sarkissoff broke open the case of champagne, split a warm bottle with a TIME correspondent. Looking out upon the peaceable, beautiful country of the Thais and the Muongs, Counselor Sarkis-soff said: "It's really beautiful...