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It was for the Foreign Secretary to make the suggestion but he refrained from doing so …Chou En-Lai was an ace diplomat, in total command of details and able to weave these into a plausible conceptual framework. Nehru understood international affairs in depth and combined it with the transparent sincerity of an idealist, but did not have the matching capacity of marshalling facts.