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...Facts. What seemed particularly annoying about the U.N.'s position on Goa was that Afro-Asian nations which, like India itself, have always preached patience and compromise to the U.S., did not even raise a whisper of protest over India's Charter violation. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "One could hope that a few voices would be heard in the neutralist camp to deplore, in however friendly a fashion, the Indian decision. It seems that anticolonialism excuses everything." Obviously unable to line up any support from Afro-Asian nations to censure India, the U.S. dropped...
...archaic fear of colonialism, and easily susceptible to Communist influence. As in the Goa case, many of them act blindly on a double standard, ready to condemn the West, rarely ready to criticize their own friends or the Communists. Does this mean, as some suggested last week, that the "Afro-Asian bloc" must be written off. and with it, the U.N.? By no means...
MORE emotional overtones were attached to the word "mercenaries" than to almost any other factor in the Katanga war. To the newly independent Afro-Asian nations (and to many U.S. liberals) who still regard imperialism as the paramount issue in world affairs, Katanga's white officers and soldiers were hired killers, sinister remnants of colonialism. This line, of course, has been happily aided by the Communists. Supporters of Moise Tshombe. however, insist that "mercenary" is merely an inflammatory term; all underdeveloped nations need foreign assistance (the U.S. sends thousands of officers and men abroad in its military aid missions...
...countries have just about exhausted all the known adjectives in expressing their condemnation of the Soviet nuclear tests-but they'll polish up some new ones when we begin testing." Yet the U.S. may certainly be pardoned for feeling that this transitory expression of world opinion-including new Afro-Asian adjectives-is less important than its own security and the future of freedom everywhere in the free world...
...Thant first joined his country's U.N. delegation in 1952, was appointed permanent delegate in 1957. Among other key U.N. posts, U Thant this year served concurrently as chairman of the Development Fund, the Congo Conciliation Commission and the Afro-Asian Standing Committee on Algeria. Rejecting Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically...