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...National Review, delivered an extraordinary speech in Manhattan that combined eloquence and caustic wit with touches of Chinese opera. Peking, he asserted, "struggles in its endless ordeal against human nature," and executed between 10 million and 50 million people "in the course of giving flesh to the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung." Taiwan, on the other hand, "is the West Berlin of China." The Chinese on Taiwan have a special mission, said Buckley, because "in the years and decades to come, their separated brothers on the mainland will look all the more wistfully to Taiwan in consideration of what...
...When word of the outcome reached Peking (Henry Kissinger learned of it five minutes after he was aloft and homeward-bound in the presidential 707), Chou celebrated. At an embassy reception in Peking, a smiling Chou moved from table to table, shaking hands and lifting his glass of fiery mao tai to acknowledge congratulations. The favorable vote was "unexpected." Chou said. But, he laughed, "I'm happy, of course...
...matter of membership. Peking should be admitted, the Americans argued, but there was no justification for expelling the Taipei regime, even if both governments did claim to be the sole legitimate representative of China. The pro-Peking forces argued that it was merely a question of credentials. If both Mao and Chiang claimed to rule all of China, only one could be right. Accordingly, they maintained, Peking, obviously in control of most of China, should be given the seat; the Nationalists, losers in an interrupted civil war, should be tossed out. The U.S. countered with a warning that to expel...
...blow may have been struck by the White House. Once Richard Nixon had announced his plans to travel to the Forbidden City, it was almost inconceivable that the U.S.'s allies would queer their own chances for a rapprochement with Peking by rallying round an outdated U.S. commitment to Mao's old foe, Chiang Kaishek. Then there was Kissinger's presence in Peking as the great debate proceeded. As France's Ambassador Jacques Kosciousko-Morizet put it at the U.N. last week: "In order to make the dual representation scheme a success, it would have been better to avoid...
...United Nations was approaching a moment of monumental importance and high drama. Mao Tse-tung's China was about to be admitted. The U.S., which had blocked Peking's entry for more than two decades, was now conceding the Communists' claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours...