At 17:50 on April 16, 1955, the special plane "AirMaster" taken by the Chinese delegation to the Bandung Conference arrived at Mayotlan Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The plane was supposed to arrive at 16:00, but due to the severe lightning weather during the flight, it had to make a forced landing in Singapore, which delayed it by nearly two hours.
Seeing that the special plane landed safely, the Chinese staff who were present to pick up the plane all breathed a long sigh of relief, and their hanging hearts could finally be put down.
Since the "Kashmir Princess" incident, which shocked China and foreign countries a week ago, the security personnel responsible for the security of the Chinese delegation have not dared to relax in the slightest.
Bandung Conference
As soon as Premier Zhou Enlai stepped off the plane, Yang Qiqing, then vice minister of public security, and Huang Zhen, Chinese ambassador to Indonesia, immediately greeted him, and the rest of the staff surrounded Premier Zhou in a three-story human wall.
After leaving the airport, three identical-looking cars drove in the direction of the Chinese Embassy. Along the way, both sides of the road were lined with local overseas Chinese who had come to welcome Premier Zhou Enlai.
Because curtains are drawn on each car, people outside cannot see the inside of the car, and many people think that the person sitting in the first car is Premier Zhou, and they are very enthusiastic about it.
However, the person sitting in the first car was not Premier Zhou Enlai, so what is going on?
Premier Zhou
The Bandung Conference was fraught with danger
On January 15, 1955, The Indonesian Ambassador to China Mononutu presented to Premier Zhou a letter signed by Indonesian Prime Minister Ali Shaster Doomizoyo inviting Premier Zhou Enlai to attend the Bandung Conference.
A month later, Premier Zhou Enlai sent a telegram expressing his willingness to attend the meeting.
The Bandung Conference was the first large-scale international conference between Asian and African countries and regions to independently discuss the issue of the vital interests of the Asian and African peoples without the participation of colonial countries.
The Bandung Conference invited the delegation of the People's Republic of China rather than the Chiang Kai-shek clique, which was defeated in Taiwan, which also means that the vast number of Asian and African countries affirm the newborn government of the People's Republic of China.
Premier Zhou
As soon as this news broke, the U.S. government and the Chiang Kai-shek clique were furious, fearing that China's appearance at the Bandung Conference would have a major impact on Asia, Africa, and the world, thus posing a threat to them.
Therefore, they began to do everything possible to obstruct and sabotage the Chinese delegation's trip to the Bandung Conference.
As a result, how to ensure the safe arrival of the Chinese delegation in Indonesia has become an important issue that the Chinese staff are most concerned about.
China did not have long-range aircraft in the 1950s, and among the Asian countries that established diplomatic relations with the mainland, only India had a better long-range aircraft.
After much thought, Premier Zhou Enlai decided to fly to Indonesia via Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport to catch an Air India Kashmir Princess flight.
Kashmir Princess
A few days before takeoff, the situation changed again. Then Burmese Prime Minister U Nu invited Premier Zhou Enlai to lead a Chinese delegation to visit Yangon.
Considering that 8 staff members of the Chinese delegation had to arrive in Indonesia early due to work needs, Premier Zhou Enlai decided to change the travel plan, leading the delegation to visit Myanmar and then go to Indonesia, and the remaining 8 staff members took a special plane through Hong Kong as originally planned.
Although Premier Zhou Enlai has changed his itinerary, he still attaches great importance to the safety of the staff who arrived in Hong Kong early, and he also made a special call to his wife, Deng Yingchao, and instructed:
"Although I have changed my itinerary, there are still a few staff members who still have to travel on the Kashmir Princess, and their safety problems cannot be ignored." You must remind the British chargé d'affaires in China again, Ehs, to let him personally go to the airport to keep an eye on it, and it is important to ensure the safety of the members of the delegation. ”
Wu Nu
At the same time, the Kuomintang authorities were secretly carrying out assassinations in an attempt to disrupt the Attendance of the Chinese delegation.
The director of the Secret Service, Mao Renfeng, sent agents in Hong Kong to hire a cleaner at Kai Tak Airport for 600,000 Hong Kong dollars to sneak in before the Kashmir Princess and plant a time bomb in the right wing of the aircraft.
The plane exploded five hours after takeoff, killing all 11 passengers on board and surviving only three of its crew.
Premier Zhou Enlai, the target of the assassination, survived a temporary change of itinerary, and if Premier Zhou Enlai had flown on the plane, China's diplomacy today would have been a very different situation.
After hearing the bad news of the tragic assassination of the "Kashmir Princess", the staff around Premier Zhou Enlai dissuaded him from canceling the trip, but he refused: "The just cause of peace and friendship cannot be destroyed!" I must attend this meeting! ”
Mao Ren Feng
Escorting the Prime Minister, the Ambassador's wife bravely served as a stand-in
After the assassination, Huang Zhen, the Chinese ambassador to Indonesia, who was responsible for the security of Premier Zhou's trip to Indonesia, felt the pressure on an instant, and in order to ensure that there were no mistakes, he and his staff lined up the road from the airport to the Chinese embassy nearly a hundred times, afraid of letting go of any detail.
On April 16, 1955, Premier Zhou Enlai led a Chinese delegation to Jakarta on a special plane, the AirMaster, which was scheduled to arrive at around 16:00 p.m.
However, at 17:00 p.m., the other delegations from Yangon had already arrived in Jakarta, and the Air Overlord on which the Chinese delegation was sitting was still missing.
The staff who had been delayed in waiting for the arrival of the Chinese delegation were anxious in their hearts, and Ambassador Huang Zhen, who was worried that there would be an unexpected situation, immediately sent an urgent telegram to report the situation to the central authorities.
Air Overlord
Fortunately, at about 17:50 p.m., the "Air Overlord" on which the Chinese delegation was riding finally appeared in people's field of vision.
It turned out that the plane was affected by bad lightning weather during the flight, and it was forced to land in Singapore for safety, which was delayed for two hours.
The Staff of the Chinese Embassy who saw the plane landing safely breathed a sigh of relief, and their hanging hearts were finally able to be put down.
Although Premier Zhou Enlai had arrived in Jakarta safely, Huang Zhen still did not dare to slack off in the slightest, after all, no one knew what kind of unbearable measures the vile and vicious Kuomintang would take.
As soon as Premier Zhou Enlai got off the plane, Huang Zhen quickly greeted him and stood beside him, and Ambassador Huang Zhen's wife, Zhu Lin, and the rest of the embassy staff immediately surrounded him and built a three-story human wall around the premier, surrounding him to leave the airport.
Zhu Lin
After leaving the airport, three small cars with the same appearance drove into the direction of the Chinese Embassy under the protection of the police, and the local people and Overseas Chinese welcomed their arrival, the scene was very lively, many people thought that Premier Zhou must be sitting in the first car, so they were the most enthusiastic about the first car.
In fact, however, the person sitting in the car was not Premier Zhou Enlai, but Zhu Lin, the wife of Huang Zhen, the Chinese ambassador to Indonesia.
In fact, after learning of the Chinese delegation's decision to attend the Bandung meeting, the staff of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia began to make corresponding arrangements for the itinerary and safety issues of the Chinese delegation.
Ambassador Huang Zhen, who is experienced in security, arranged three identical cars to pick him up in advance, and formulated a careful order of rides: the first car was taken by Ambassador Huang Zhen's wife, Zhu Lin, and the interpreter; The second was taken by Ambassador Huang Zhen and Premier Zhou Enlai; The third car was taken by Chen Yi.
Premier Zhou
For the sake of secrecy, he did not even tell his wife, Zhu Lin. When Premier Zhou Enlai left the airport and Huang Zhen took him to the second car, Zhu Lin was stunned when he saw this situation. Huang Zhen quickly gave her a look: "You take the first car in place of the premier." ”
Seeing the look in her husband's eyes, she instantly understood and quickly took the interpreter into the first car.
On the road from the airport to the Chinese Embassy, all sides of the road were lined with crowds of people who came to greet Premier Zhou, and Zhu Lin had a clever move, thinking that if Premier Zhou saw so many people cheering for him, he would definitely say something.
Therefore, Zhu Lin quickly put his hand out of the window and waved to them in the form of Premier Zhou. Without any danger, Premier Zhou Enlai successfully arrived at the chinese embassy in Indonesia.
Premier Zhou
Stick to the revolutionary front and not engage in specialization
This beautiful "stand-in" of Zhou Enlai is the wife of the first generation of ambassadors of New China.
Zhu Lin was born in February 1920 to an ordinary peasant family in Sima Village, Xiaoyi City, Shanxi Province. Zhu Lin's family conditions have not been very good, the whole family only relies on the land property bought by the second grandfather to live, the income is very meager, and sometimes it is difficult to meet even food and clothing.
When she was eleven years old, her parents moved to Fenyang with her family in order to make a living, and the living conditions of the family were greatly improved after they went to the city to work.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and it was not long before Zhu Lin's father was framed by bad people and imprisoned in the police station, and the family suddenly lost its top pillar.
In order to support her family, Zhu Lin, as an only child, had to suspend her studies and follow her mother to work in the factory, and a few years later, her father was released, and Zhu Lin was finally able to return to school and return to the classroom.
Zhu Lin and Huang Zhen
During his studies, Zhu Lin was deeply influenced by the progressive revolutionary trend of thought, and vowed to contribute his share of strength in the future.
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident in 1937, Zhu Lin's Mingxian Middle School was forced to suspend school, and unable to continue her studies, she decided to join the anti-Japanese propaganda team to carry out anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in the Taihang Mountains, and together with the young comrades in the team, she wrote and directed a live newspaper drama to publicize the revolutionary spirit to the local people.
After that, Zhu Lin was organized and sent to the Party School of the Party Committee of the Taihang Military Region to study, and then she successively served as a member of the Organization Committee of the Party Committee of the Taihang Military Region and the deputy chief of the Organization Department of the Taihang Military Region, and participated in large-scale anti-sweeping struggles such as the Hundred Regiments War on many occasions, in order to protect the confidential materials and archives of the Party Organization Department.
While working in the Taihang Military Region, Zhu Lin met her husband, Huang Zhen.
Zhu Lin and Huang Zhen
The first time the two met was at a local study meeting, and the two people who had never met before had a good conversation, and Zhu Lin also had a good feeling for the comrade in front of him.
At the Taihang District Party Congress in the autumn of 1939, the two met again, and what Zhu Lin did not expect was that Huang Zhen bluntly made a request for marriage to her.
After thinking for a moment, Zhu Lin put forward her own conditions, she hoped that she would stick to work after marriage and not idle at home.
Hearing this, Huang Zhen immediately expressed his position: "You can rest assured, I will definitely respect your decision, support you in continuing your revolutionary cause, and take our marriage seriously." ”
After that, the two submitted the marriage application to the higher party organization.
Zhu Lin and others
After the approval of the organization, 30-year-old Huang Zhen and 19-year-old Zhu Lin were officially licensed to marry and married.
After marriage, the two did not stay together every day like ordinary couples, and in order to avoid bad influences, the two still lived in their former residence, sometimes for a week or two.
In the years when the two had just married, it was the most arduous battle stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Zhu Lin, who had lost contact with her husband Huang Zhen many times, was worried about her husband's safety all day long, fortunately, jiren had its own heavenly appearance, and Huang Zhen could return safely every time.
HuangZhen
The most frightening time for Zhu Lin was in 1946, during the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation negotiations, when Huang Zhen, as the chief negotiator of the Chinese Communists in Xinxiang, was imprisoned by the Kuomintang for up to half a year.
In prison, Huang Zhen wrote a letter to his wife Zhu Lin: "As a Communist Party member, your head can be broken, your blood can be shed, but your mission is not disgraceful. ”
After receiving her husband's letter, Zhu Lin felt discouraged, and this time she was mentally prepared that her husband might never come back.
At the end of 1946, after many negotiations between the party organization and the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang representatives sent Huang Zhen and other Chinese people back to the Handan area of Hebei Province by plane, and the couple, who had been separated for a year, were finally reunited.
Mr. and Mrs. Huang Zhen
Take off the military uniform and change into a dress, and diplomacy has been turbulent for decades
After the founding of New China, her husband Huang Zhen was appointed the first Chinese ambassador to Hungary, and his wife Zhu Lin should also accompany him.
The Ambassador's Wife has always been more than just a status symbol, it is more like a profession, with a lot of knowledge in it.
In order to allow the new batch of ambassadors' wives to better learn diplomatic etiquette, Premier Zhou Enlai, who is well versed in diplomacy, specially hired a group of etiquette instructors for them to teach them the behavior and dress in line with the requirements of diplomatic occasions.
This was a difficult task for the new ambassador's wife, Zhu Lin, who had been wearing a military uniform and could not speak English, and she even had the idea of giving up.
However, when I thought that Comrade Deng Yingchao, the wife of Premier Zhou Enlai, had worked so hard to accomplish her diplomatic tasks well, she had not complained a single word. Thinking of this, Zhu Lin was even more determined to do a good job in the role of the ambassador's wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Huang Zhen
In January 1950, Zhu Lin, as the wife of the ambassador and second secretary, went to Hungary with her husband Huang Zhen to carry out diplomatic activities.
During his work at the Chinese Embassy in Hungary, Zhu Lin actively participated in embassy construction and party affairs, and often used his free time to teach himself Hungarian.
In just four years in Hungary, Zhu Lin was fluent in Hungarian, and locals praised her every time she talked.
In November 1954, Zhu Lin again followed her husband on a mission to Indonesia as the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia. During his work in Indonesia, Zhu Lin has participated in the security work of major national leaders for many times.
In addition to serving as a stand-in for Premier Zhou during the Bandung conference itinerary, Vice Chairman Soong Ching Ling was also accompanied by Comrade Zhu Lin throughout his visit to Indonesia.
Zhu Lin and others
After that, Zhu Lin successively followed her husband Huang Zhen on missions to the French Republic, the United States and other countries to assist her husband in carrying out diplomatic work.
For the sake of the motherland's diplomatic cause, Zhu Lin and Huang Zhen's seven children were raised by comrades and elders in the Liberated Areas from an early age, and they had almost no time to take care of them. But the couple never complained and fought diligently on the diplomatic front for thirty years.
It was not until 1977 that Zhu Lin and Huang Zhen returned to the motherland and were transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until they retired. After leaving retirement, Zhu Lin did not idle, she wrote her personal experience into a book "Memoirs of the Ambassador's Wife", telling the world about the history of diplomacy after the founding of New China.
On April 12, 2021, the elderly Zhu Lin died in Beijing due to illness at the age of 101.
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