Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Wu Hsiu-chuan and his eight comrades from Peking said goodbye to the U.N., checked out of the Waldorf-Astoria after a 26-day stay, headed for Idlewild airport and a British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser that would fly them to London on the first leg of the long trip home, via Russia, of course...
...General Wu solemnly read a farewell statement to the press. First, he wished "the American people . . . a merry Christmas and a happy New Year." Then he denounced "Anglo-American ruling circles" for aggression, etc., and for proposing a cease-fire in Korea that was "nothing but a trickery and a plot." Otherwise, the Red Chinese smiled, waved and comported themselves like a company of bourgeois tourists...
...customs officers, eying the party, remarked that it was "just like an Easter parade." The men in General Wu's group all sported new Fifth Avenue suits. Miss Kung Pu-sheng, third in the delegation's rank, wore two orchids on her mouton coat. Miss Chou Yen, probably No. 8 in the group, rated only one orchid on the worn fur coat she had brought from Peking. Newsmen asked who gave them the flowers. The women answered: "Does it matter? Is it vital...
...Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...
Particles of Voices. Some of Murrow & Friendly's effects were fairly routine: the railing voices of Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky contrasted with the country-lawyer diction of U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. But others achieved a vivid reality, e.g., the flat, unemotional American voices recorded in a command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been...