At Geneva, Red China's poker-faced Premier Chou En-lai allowed Communist newsmen to photograph him at his assured ease. The pictures were released to Western newsmen, who were not allowed to talk to Chou. It all made a prettied-up picture, to go with the whole confident facade of advancing and unstoppable Communism in Asia.
In the Communist China press, the picture was prettied up too, but still ugly spots showed through. Issues of Communist local papers reaching Hong Kong report these details of Communist unrest in recent months:
ΒΆ The government created special courts...