(2 of 2)
Long Way Around. For a period in the 1950s, Peking, too, was making elaborate offers of aid. Indeed, thousands of blue-uniformed Chinese work ers arrived in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator and were put to use for various projects. Then, abruptly, the Chinese workers vanished earlier this year, and some reports suggested that Mongolia had ordered them out of the country. Now there is constant bickering between the two countries. Last week Mongolia was reported to be alarmed by Chinese troop concentrations on the Mongolian frontier. Ulan Bator also complains that Mao & Co. have instituted something of a blockade forcing the Russian satellite to reroute its minimal trade with Japan and other overseas countries through Vladivostok—a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides of the long border could only have provoked sighs of regret from oldtime Communists. Under Joseph Stalin, the ultimate commandment was harshly enforced: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor."