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...long as Chou remained alive, even gravely ill on a hospital bed, the policies pursued by Teng Hsiao-ping bore the stamp of the Premier's authority. For many world statesmen???notably including Henry Kissinger?Chou personified what they would like China to be: reasonable, flexible, nonaggressive (see obituary, page 30). With the Premier's death, China lost half of the remarkable team that symbolized the People's Republic both to its own people and to those outside. Now only Mao remains, mentally alert at 82 but frail, slack-jawed and slurred of speech...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen???Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...
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