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While Austin talked, Wu had sat tense as a coiled spring. In appearance, the Wu at whom the statesmen and television viewers stared for an answer bore no resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part...
...Wu's Speech. The U.S., he said, is the historical foe of China: "The American imperialists have always been the cunning aggressor . . . never . . . the friends of the Chinese people . . . The Open Door was in fact an aggressive policy aimed at sharing the spoils with other imperialists...
...said, has instigated the war in Korea to cover up its invasion of Formosa and to further "its fanatical design of dominating Asia and the world." Screamed Wu: "Who has shattered security in the Pacific? Have Chinese armed forces invaded Hawaii, or have U.S. armed forces invaded . . . Korea and Formosa? . . . The real intention of the U.S., as MacArthur has confessed, is ... to dominate every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore...
...said, has gulled the 52 nations sharing in the police action in Korea. .Shrilled Wu to the 52, in a patent move to splinter the already divided U.N. majority: "Do not be taken in by the U.S., do not pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the U.S.-because . . . you must bear the consequences of your actions...
...Kiss a Buzz Saw. Throughout, Wu never recognized the fact that the forces in Korea under attack by his master were United Nations forces. In fact, Wu demanded that the U.N. apply "severe sanctions" against the U.S. for sending troops to Korea. He demanded that U.N. force an American "withdrawal" from Korea and Formosa* (i.e., turn both over to the Reds). Whether the U.N. did so or not, militant Red China, leading all Asia, would chase off "U.S. aggressors...