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The Circles on Paper. The authors Hanson, who have made a solid reputation with biographies of the Bronte sisters, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Eliot, are too fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What...
TIME Correspondent John Beal, a veteran of international conferences, is a case in point. At Geneva, Beal found some familiar faces in the Chinese delegation. The first was Chou Enlai, Red China's Premier, Foreign Minister and head of the Geneva delegation. Beal had last dealt with Chou in...
Another Geneva figure Beal recognized was the delegation's secretary, Wan Ping-nan, "a heavy, sinister-looking, ' German-educated Chinese whom I had known in Nanking." One member of the delegation was unidentified by the West for the first three days. On the fourth day of the conference...
TO observe the home life of the Chinese delegation I went to dinner at one of their hotels. As they came into the dining room, three men and a woman sat at one table: another group of three men sat next to them. One of these, I felt certain, was...
I waited in the lobby until they had finished and accosted Chang. He answered to his name. When I introduced myself, he remembered me from Nanking with what I thought was a friendly but guarded air. Our conversation went like this: