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When he heard the news of France's recognition while on tour in Africa, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai broke into rapturous French. "Bonjour, bonjour, comment allez-vous!" he cried to France's ambassador in the Sudan. "That's great. I am very happy." He also recalled that he and Foreign Minister Chen Yi "were both students together in Paris many years...
Nikita Khrushchev had a fine man on hand for the job in Vice President Kassim Hanga, who studied at Moscow's Lumumba University for 21 years. And if Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was interested, he had only to pop over from West Africa and talk with Peking's good friend, Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed. "Babu" would certainly listen...
...sever diplomatic ties with Paris. The U.S. counseled the Nationalists against a quick break on the grounds that 1) if Red China sticks to its longstanding position that no country may have diplomats in both Peking and Taipei (a view repeated last week by barnstorming Red Premier Chou En-lai in Mali), De Gaulle would be acutely embarrassed and the onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic problems...
...wide knowledge of diplomacy could be put to good use-and where party officials could keep an eye on her. Nehru may soon be forced to elevate to the Cabinet someone who in fact would run the country. Likeliest prospect, and leading candidate to succeed Nehru: former Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...
...Shastri" is actually an honorific title grafted onto his real name, Lai Bahadur. Although calling him Shastri is like calling a U.S. liberal-arts graduate "Mr. Bachelor of Arts," he is universally known by that name...