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...declared in Washington last week, "let us do so with our eyes open." The conservative Senator's personal contribution to the effort seemed more calculated to make eyes pop. A 46-page study published under the imprimatur of Eastland's Senate Internal Security subcommittee last week blames Mao Tse-tung and his comrades for the deaths of anywhere from 34,300,000 to 63,784,000 Chinese since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists began fighting Mao Tse-tung's Communists...
Classic Examples. Walker cites many sources-including such Internal Security subcommittee favorites as the New York Times, the Washington Post and Radio Moscow-for his figures. Conceivably his tabulations could be close to the truth, though most Sinologists doubt it. Mao himself once guessed that 800,000 died during the land seizures of 1949-52, which saw the last mass executions known to have occurred in China. But Sinologist Stuart Schram reckons that the true toll might have run as high as 3,000,000. How many Chinese have been executed, starved or otherwise killed during the years of turmoil...
...making progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed of peoples of all nations and this gave it an advantage of the gradual accumulation of the wisdom of different countries...
Come Again. Dinner was described by Reston as a "neverending stream," featuring such fare as sea slugs and quail eggs. Chou proposed a toast with a glass of the strong Chinese liquor mao-tai, but did not swallow a drop. At one point, Reston went after a decorative but tough leaf under his portion of ground pork and drew a polite reproof from his host: "Please don't eat the lotus leaves...
Dinner over, Reston and Chou resumed their interview until past midnight. Then, Reston reported, Chou "took us to the door, which could not have been more than a quarter of a mile away." There would be no chance to see Mao Tse-tung this time, said Chou. "The Chairman is preoccupied with other matters. But of course you can come with your President next time." Reston declined with thanks. "I'll worry about him from now till then and let you worry about him after he gets here...