Passport to Peking

President Nixon''s famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand.In the second half of 1954, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing, in response to Prime Minister Chou En-lai''s invitation to ''co...