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...about hearing the world's great men blowing their noses over national radio hookups. UNO's microphones picked up all sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps...
Northern Lights. Byrnes proposed that UNO ask both Russia and Iran to report officially on the status of their negotiations, wanted answers by April 2. Other delegates suggested April 4 because "magnetic storms" were delaying communications. Chairman Quo Tai-chi compromised on April 3. While UNO waited for the Russian and Iranian reports, Pravda called the whole crisis "artificial," and pronounced further discussion of the case "superfluous" in the light of "the mutual understanding reached regarding evacuation of Soviet forces from Iran...
...Tai-chi was the shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...