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Star of the day was a Florida Negro, Louis William Wheaton, who rose before his fellow "Peace Partisans" and admitted on behalf of the U.S. to "an unspeakable shame before history and humanity." For all the fanfare, however, the Peking conference seemed to have flopped badly. Nobody seemed to be listening, except those who had to.
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In nearby, free Hong Kong, which is a good barometer of Mao's power and popularity, there was hardly any show of Communist colors on Oct. 1, third anniversary of Red China's founding. But ten days later, on the Double Tenth—the 41 st birthday of the Chinese Republic—100,000 Nationalist flags went up over the slum huts, shops, taxis, buses, junks and offices of Hong Kong's Chinese, in the biggest spontaneous display of pro-Nationalist sentiment since China fell.