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WORKMEN had all but finished festooning the reviewing stand atop the mammoth vermilion-pillared Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking Peking's Tienanmen Square. The spectators' stand had been built and bamboo scaffolding prepared for the traditional giant portraits of Mao Tse-tung and Lenin. Squadrons of military and civilian marchers were rehearsing for the biggest event on the Chinese political calendar, the National Day parade, scheduled...
Foreign Affairs was and is an unusual journalistic enterprise. Its circulation is only 73,000, but guided by Armstrong's intelligence, it became a sort of house organ for world leaders. In the first issue-which Lenin read carefully-former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root proclaimed America's global destiny. Other contributors have included Leon Trotsky, Nikita Khrushchev and, in 1967, Richard Nixon, who explained the necessity for stabilized relations with mainland China...
Horsecarts and Hypocrites. In fact, the fair offered politics as well as pommes frites. Hulking busts of Lenin sold for $4.50. There was a 15-hour marathon in the central committee tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...
...silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body the way the Russians had embalmed the remains of Lenin and Stalin. According to one witness, "the body was so natural that it looked like Evita was only asleep...
...evenhanded direction over the past 49 years, the quarterly has been a barometer of American foreign policy thinking. Its contributors have proposed, analyzed and, in many instances, carried out U.S. diplomacy. Its subscription list is a Who's Who of academic and political leaders around the world. Lenin is said to have read and underlined the first issue, and when Nikita Khrushchev wanted to signal a thaw in the cold war, he did so in an article in Foreign Affairs...