THE NATION: Eyes East

Like a great camera panning across the world, the diplomatic eyes of the U.S. shifted to the Far East. Amid the waning echoes of the Big Four conference at Geneva, a simultaneous announcement crackled out of Washington and Peking: ambassadors of the U.S. and Communist China would meet this week in Geneva to discuss "the matter of repatriation of civilians* who desire to return to their respective countries [and to] ... facilitate further discussions and settlement of certain other practical matters."

Off to the discussions at Geneva went Red China's Ambassador...

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