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...Democratic primary winner running in a final election in the Deep South. Last week he got combined backing of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Besides this powerful support, Boland can count on the consistent anticolonial stand of his native Ireland to help win Latin American and Afro-Asian nations. His rival, Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, can count for sure only on the nine votes of the Communist bloc...
Shrewdly, the Afro-Asian bloc last fortnight submitted a bland resolution that did not mention independence or describe the rebel F.L.N. as a legitimate government. The French delegation, clinging steadily to its insistence that Algeria is part of France and hence none of the General Assembly's business, once again boycotted the debate. But Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria (TIME, Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard...
Then the love affair palled. Red China decided that the Southeast Asian governments were more important than the Overseas Chinese and. wooing the Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was mutual. Hua-chiao students returned from China complaining of hardships under the Reds. The relatives back home saw little of the money that had been sent them, and sneaked out bitter reports about the communes...
...another issue in the U.N. last week, the vote went badly for France. Led by the same Afro-Asian bloc that supports the Algerian rebels, the U.N. General Assembly-which has never condemned any previous nuclear tests-by a vote of 51 to 16 called upon France to abandon plans for exploding its first A-bomb in the Sahara some time next year. The U.S.. and Britain sided with France...
...conference took place just 200 miles from Bandung, where in 1955 newly liberated Afro-Asian nations, full of hostility toward their former rulers, joined in opposition to all colonialism. Red China was there too. Since then Red China has lost friends over Tibet, the older Western nations have won increased understanding of their own motives because they have learned to understand the new nation better, and the new nations themselves have gained in political maturity. The harsh spirit of Bandung was hardly detectable among the delegates who in Jogjakarta last week enthusiastically voted to continue the Colombo Plan until...