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Certainly the White House staff was only too happy to agree with Chinese wishes to withhold information on all top-level discussions. After the first Nixon-Mao meeting, Ziegler would not even pinpoint the location of Mao's home in Peking, or describe the refreshments. "Absurd," growled the New York Times''s Max Frankel, who was told it would be "fair to assume that tea was served." Arrangements for filing cables were fine. Phone calls were put through in a matter of minutes. But what...
Deprived of the customary briefings and backgrounders, correspondents were forced to fall back on color and trivia, including the length of Mao's handshake with Nixon and the width of Chou En-lai's grins as portents of how the talks were going. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. fumed about the low-key reception and grumbled that the sole Chinese concession seemed to be that "they did not make President Nixon stop for red lights." Buckley eventually suggested in print that some slight was also intended because Chou drank "to the health" of President Nixon instead...
...prolonged contact with responsive individual Chinese, as the Times's Frankel did with some students at Peking University, the results could be unnerving. One student said the bloodshed during the recent Cultural Revolution was necessary because it helped expose enemies of the people. Frankel: "Then why does Chairman Mao now say that violence is not the way?" Reply: "Because violence...
Back in Washington Columnist Art Buchwald seemed happy enough to be left behind. Comfortably reflecting on the fact that Chairman Mao writes uplifting verse, Buchwald offered a collection of poems that President Nixon might quote back at him, in Mao's own florid style. To the harried word reporters in Peking, one was especially to the point...
Trotsky was as complete a revolutionary as one could find that side of Mao Tse-tung. He thrived equally on the chaos of armed insurrection and the enforced peace of prison life. It was in jail and during the doldrums of exile that Trotsky became a leading Socialist theoretician and defender of what he saw as the only true political faith -permanent, international revolution of the urban working class. As stage manager of the Russian Revolution's 1905 dress rehearsal, as founder of the Red Army and Commissar of War after 1917, Trotsky tasted his share of glory...