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...seemed not to notice. Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with
...must cease arming Japan; 3) America must not be permitted to arm Western Germany; 4) Britain's Labor Party must "arrange a more reasonable foreign policy along such lines." Thus, after ten days of "bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately, Chou En-lai suggested that Britain might join Red China's long-sought chain of "Asia...
Well fortified with edible portions of the lotus plant, symbol of indolence and forgetfulness, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his roving band of British Laborites last week craned their tourist rubbernecks at Red China. The entertainment provided at Peking was at least as lavish as that shown the British in Moscow. One night there was a ten-course dinner for 400 at The House of Magnanimity (a former imperial palace), where the menu featured melon prepared in the shape of the shaven head of one of Buddha's disciples. On another occasion, a reception for 600, 23 toasts...
Some 40 hours later, after a brief stop in Outer Mongolia, the touring Britons arrived in Peking, to be welcomed by Premier Chou En-lai at a cocktail party for 400. At a lunch given by Chou next day, they happily munched on roots of the lotus flower. Perhaps they found time later to recall the Moscow memory of what New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury cryptically described as "a mildly admonitory toast offered [late] in the proceedings by possibly the most senior Russian present...
...contrast, the sunniest tale in the book is by that late great skeptic, André Gide, who tells his version of how Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent...