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There was a brief exchange between Mao and Mr. Honth which did not come across at all in interpretation and which Mr. Heath. could not have understood. As a light hearted complirent Mao said that Mr. Heath was whereas Chou Enlai was only Nancy could do no better than sny Mr. Heath was Trime Minister, 1.2. the first of all the Ministers, whereas Chou was only Prom
10. Teng referred in one of the talks to Neville Maxwe11's articl on Nehru in the latest issue of "Foreign Affairs" and he told mo at one of the banquets that he had read the first volume of Khrushchev's alleged memoirs. This shows how well up to date ho keeps himself on foreign affairs.
I was struck by the fact that Liu Shao-ch'i's name was not mentioned throughout the visit.
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