Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absolute Secrecy. All week there had been a strange sensation in Moscow that maybe there was no Sino-Soviet meeting at all. The Kremlin acted as though the showdown never took place. Dom Priemov, the reception house where the sessions were supposed to be held, was carefully avoided by Soviet reporters and photographers. Asked why, a Moscow news executive said sarcastically: "It's payday. They've all gone for their money." After meeting twice to discuss formalities, the Russians and Red Chinese met only three times during the next seven days. Just before one session began, a Western...
Scarcely had the Sino-Soviet talks gotten underway than the meeting headed for collapse. It did not much matter when Red China's seven-man delegation would pack their bags and actually leave Moscow; back home Peking's People's Daily seemed ready to call it quits. "We want unity, not a split," said the voice of Red China. "But we have to point out with heavy hearts that events have gone contrary to our hopes. The situation is very grave...
...life behind the massive, cream-colored walls of Dom Priemov were the boots of a Soviet soldier, which protruded beneath the spiked iron gates when he opened a peephole to scrutinize an arriving automobile. For the first time, Russians were willing to talk and even to joke about the Sino-Soviet conflict. One crack making the rounds in Moscow suggested that the way to solve the whole thing was for Mao Tse-tung and Charles de Gaulle to conclude an alliance, thus letting the two troublemakers take care of each other...
...these Sino-Soviet exchanges were carefully framed to put the blame for the split on the other fellow. Obviously the Chinese never expected the Moscow meeting to succeed, insisted on it merely to embarrass the Soviets. The Kremlin, in turn, could not afford to appear intractable. At week's end the Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they...
Nothing was said that should be written in marble, but it really was a kind of town meeting. International problems, from food surpluses to Sino-Soviet relations, were talked over in an offhand, idiomatic way. "I want to tell you, Anthony," said Ike to Eden, "that we will be there if you people ever get in trouble. You know that...