Deep within Peking's Forbidden City, beneath lacquered ceilings, Mao Tse-tung last week received the onetime Prime Minister of Great Britain, Clement Attlee, and the Labor Party delegation to Red China. It was the first significant audience Mao had granted Westerners since he conquered vast China in 1949.
Smiling, his broad peasant's face edged with long black hair, Mao came forward to shake hands with each member of the Laborite delegation; he inquired courteously after their health, and concerned himself whether or not they were enjoying their visit. Amid the City's glaze work and...
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