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...Chou En-lai went on to chide Khrushchev for his "public denunciation" of Albania: "To openly display in the enemy's presence disputes between brother countries cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach, and can only distress friends and delight our enemies...
Next day Chou En-lai coolly accepted the challenge. Striding to the podium, he announced that Red China was a friend of the Soviet Union and of "all other countries in the Socialist camp, which extends from North Korea to East Germany, and from North Viet Nam to Albania." A scattering of applause was swiftly silenced when the nearly 5,000 delegates saw that Khrushchev and the other members of the Party Presidium were sitting motionless...
Communist leaders from the West quickly joined the chorus. But Chou En-lai was not totally friendless in the Palace of Congresses. North Viet Nam's wisp-bearded Ho Chih Minh and North Korea's chunky Kim II Sung refused to join Khrushchev in condemning Red China by denouncing Albania...
...Peking, the Reds have previously soft-pedaled the Double Ten celebration, possibly because of its accent on a spontaneous explosion of oppressed people. Last week, speaking to an audience of 10,000, Premier Chou En-lai belittled the overthrow of the Manchus as "an old-fashioned democratic revolution led by the Chinese bourgeoisie...
Modest Hope. Though cordial, out of necessity, to Red China ("I have eaten rice with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung"), Prince Sihanouk deals roughly with Cambodia's native Communists, who, he says bluntly, wish "to destroy" him because he will not practice "onesided neutrality" in the manner of Laos' Red Prince Souphanouvong. His desire to preserve Cambodian neutrality now takes the form of wanting the West to be stronger, for he believes that Communism is on the rise in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to find a counterbalance...