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...decades. Western journalists writing about China found themselves using phrases like "As Chou En-lai once told Edgar Snow . . ." or "As Mao Tse-tung recently explained to Snow . . ." Journalist-Author Snow not only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...
...nurse from Peking, but they could not help. Last week, with his wife, son and daughter at his bedside, Snow, 66, died in his farmhouse at Eysins, Switzerland -on the Chinese New Year's Day, and just six days before President Nixon's arrival in Peking. Said Mao in a personal message to Snow's widow: ''His memory will live forever in the hearts of the Chinese people...
...finally broke through the Nationalist blockade of the Communists in northern Shensi province in 1936 and spent four months with Mao, Chou and other leaders. The resulting book, Red Star Over China, was a masterpiece of reporting, and it cast Snow from then on as both a biographer and a sometime spokesman for Mao. Author Theodore White, who covered China during World War II. calls Red Star "an example of classic reportage. Ed's discovery and description of Chinese Communism was a staggering achievement, like Columbus discovering America." Said Snow of Mao: "Here is a man in whom...
...McCarthy's heyday, Snow was castigated as a Red propagandist. Ironically, he was also the target of gossip linking him to the Central Intelligence Agency. Whatever the charges, Snow never forgot that he was an American. He made no move to renounce citizenship, as did some admirers of Mao, and his 20-year-old daughter Sian (the name means "Western Peace" in Mandarin) is a student at Antioch College...
...last trip to Peking, in 1970, Snow was invited to stand beside Mao on the rostrum at the National Day celebrations. The visitor accurately interpreted this honor as a sign that Mao wanted better relations with the U.S., and Mao confirmed that in his interview with Snow, in which he virtually invited Nixon to come to Peking...