Word: lai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bustling into the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal on the way home from his trip to India last spring, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai wore his sunniest friendship grin. Mouthing sentiments of peace and solidarity, Chou happily played the role of Nepal's big brother in Asia, signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala that was designed to soothe border frictions...
...trade fair to coincide with the conference, and sent 100 officials to man it; they spent more time buttonholing the conference delegates than minding their stalls at the fair. On the conference's opening day, cables of greeting from Khrushchev and Red China's Chou En-lai were read to loud applause ("The Soviet Union is the truest and most disinterested friend and ally of the African peoples," cabled Khrushchev). The companion greeting from U.S. Secretary of State Herter was ignored. After the U.S. embassy protested, the message was read the following day, received only scattered handclaps...
Coincidentally. as he flew into Washington last week, that policy was being tested in Nepal's capital of Katmandu. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived for talks on China's claim to a slice of Nepal containing the world's highest peak, was greeted by paintings of Mount Everest prominently labeled "Nepal." Meanwhile, half a world away. King Mahendra earnestly told a joint session of Congress: "Our policy of nonalignment does not arise from our desire to sit on the fence . . . We shall certainly not be neutral when we are confronted with a choice...
Smiling his way through mountainous Nepal, whose King was visiting the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was still inwardly seething at the chilly treatment he had received in New Delhi, where neither his charm nor his bullying had produced concessions by the Indians on the prickly frontier squabble. In Parliament, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru defended Chou's visit but minced no words. "The only alternative was to sit and curse like an old woman, or go to war." His talks with Chou, he said, had foundered on "a rock...
...China. Bland, approving copy has flowed westward, uncensored, on Red China officialdom ("gracious and courteous"), babies ("cute and chubby and cuddlesome"), the sights in the capital ("Peking is almost ready for the tourists; it has little to be ashamed of and much to be proud of"), Premier Chou En-lai ("vibrant personality"), and industry ("The organization of China's industrial enterprises is excellent"). Sometimes his stories have sounded as if they were translated from the original Red Chinese: "The West must come to China, even if it involves the loss of Formosa. The world has reached a stage where...