Conceived as friends

"I have conversed with Red Guards every day ... all are friendly and welcome us as friends. And even en masse, the reaction is spontaneously friendly. Everywhere the cry is against USA imperialism 'and here they speak of meeting violence with violence). But the people, including the American people (the masses) are conceived to be friends and we are treated as such," says Mr. Pearson.

"When we go to a place in a group we immediately find hundreds of people around our buses and quite ' spontaneous clapping and singing breaks out as we emerge. I have never shaken so many hands, the people all wish to touch "the foreigners" and are extremely free in their giving of Mao badges, photographs, etc.