Busy Courtship

Red China, busily courting Britain, last week sought in small ways to show what a fine companion she would make. But she also showed plainly, in rationing out her favors, that she was in full control of her emotions. In three moves, Peking: <| Agreed without haggling to Britain's demand for -L-367,000 ($1,027,600) compensation for shooting down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents." British Industries and the British Cham ber of Commerce. Originally, only twelve firms wanted to send representatives; the list now numbers more than 60. All of them, remembering the expropriation of Britain's great investments in Shanghai, seem resigned to doing business with China, but not in China.

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