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...Moscow, Foo Ping-sheung, China's ambassador to Russia, pondered a telegram last week. It announced his appointment as Premier Ho Ying-chin's new foreign minister. Asked if he would accept, Foo said: "Wouldn't it be like jumping into the fire? ... I think people live longer in New Zealand...
While Foo debated where to go, Premier Ho and the rest of his cabinet picked five men to carry Nationalist China's peace hopes to the Communists. As nominal head of the delegation they named General Chang Chih-chung, former governor of Sinkiang Province and commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador...
Chief of the Red quintet that will face Premier Ho's delegation is Chou Enlai, Mao's eloquent first lieutenant. Backing him up will be General Yeh Chien-ying, Communist army chief of staff and now mayor of Peiping. When he took office in February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip...
...Francisco's huge, hangarlike Civic Auditorium was in fine fettle. Even Master of Ceremonies John Charles Thomas couldn't resist getting into the act. "I'm glad to see such a crowd," he roared. "Word must have got around that I won't sing tonight. Ho, ho, ho...
Ferociously anti-Communist during his long years of loyalty to the Gimo, Ho attended Buchmanite moral rearmament meetings while in the U.S., decided he must "fight idea with idea" rather than "force with force." After the Japanese surrender, Ho opposed Chiang's policy of attempting to hold Manchuria against the Communists. In 1948 he spurned Chiang's offer of the premiership...