In the big conference room in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, the U.S. found itself confronting an almost unified opposition. Four years after the Korean armistice, most of its Western allies were itching to get a chunk of the Red Chinese market and unwilling to agree that trade with Red China should be subject to heavier restrictions than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China...
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