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- me death of Chou En-lai at the age of se. enty-eight in Peking on January 8th brought to a close a political career ira: spanned fifty-seven years of actLine centre or events shaping rodern Chinese history. This, itself, is estimonv to his skill in the devious --er-party warfare that had led to the •urge and disgrace of all but a tew C-airman Mao Tsetung's oldest and c'ases: associates by the beginning of : = 1970s.

last years, Chou served as piece in Chinals qovernmental us and its diplomatic corps. cad repulation lor sudve uruodds with the crude strongamm: hods of the regime which he Tere: alca.

Ghouls extraordinary staying power the multifarious purges that dot the history of Chinese Stalinism resided - an absence of principles and a keen sense of which way the wind was blowi-g at the top of the party hierarchy. 'Moderation' The Western capitalist press. after Feking's turn towards Washington in 1972, professed to be charmed with Chou's personality and pleased with his moderation as a diplomat. on his death, the editors of the New York Times hailed him as 'one of the more far-sighted statesmen of the 20th century', citing as evidence his part, along with Mao, in 'repairing the longshattered Sino-American relationship'.

These gentlemen, who are no friends or ine cninese revolution. are not shamming in voicing their regrets on They are expressing chou's passing. appreciation for an estwhile enemy. for real services rendered. It is this internal transformation of Chou, „Ine selfless proletarian revolutionist into Chou the bureaucra-administrator: anich constitutes the central thread or his lite and wnich detines nis prace in Chinese and world history. Stalinism Chou took part in virtually every major event in the revolution of 1925La revolution brought to a bloody and disastrous 'defeat' by Stalin's *coricies of collaboration with the bourgeois Kuomintang & bureaucratic dictation of tactics to the CCP. It Chou was formed as a revolutionist. was arrested at Canton in March 1926 in C-ang Kai-shek's first move against ..e CCP: he participated in the Shanguprising in the spring of 19278 mas one of the main leaders in the c:: who decided to welcome Chiang's leading to the anti-communist