Word: lai
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After eight weeks' silence, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai last week made another pitch for a cease-fire in Korea, demanding "unconditional" resumption of the Panmunjom talks...
...days of Chou En-lai in Moscow ended with a fanfare fortissimo. Joseph Stalin himself gave a state dinner in the Kremlin for Red China's visiting Premier. The Chinese reciprocated with a banquet in the grand ballroom of the Metropole Hotel; their thousand guests sat at 50 tables, and Chou moved about, gaily drinking to the health of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Peking's press and radio hailed the Moscow communiqués of the Sino-Soviet talks as proof of an "impregnable alliance...
...provocation" which is "imperiling" the truce talks (in secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
From Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week came a sweeping order formalizing the obvious: all Christian missions, schools and hospitals supported by Americans are taken under strict Communist control. Other provisions: ¶ Missions that cannot support themselves may call on Peking for subsidies (or shut up shop). ¶ Missionaries who "oppose the People's Government" will be dismissed, and those charged with "crimes" will be punished. ¶ Missionaries who are "not reactionary" may stay on, but only in subordinate positions...
...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...