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...fateful June day in 1947, when General George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, rekindled Europe's war-deadened spirits with his promise of massive infusions of U.S. financial help, economic aid has been one of the most effective instruments of U.S. foreign policy. But at Cairo's Afro-Asian Conference last week (see below), Soviet representatives were gleefully hammering away at a new theme: "The capitalists no longer have a monopoly of credit and machinery. The Socialist countries are really giving...
...Cairo last week, Indian M.P. Anup Singh took sharp exception to Western criticism of his supreme creation, the week-old Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference (TIME, Jan. 6). "The conference,v insisted Singh, "was neither inspired nor financed by the Communist Party, nor is it deliberately following the Communist line."Then he added brightly: "But you can say that the decisions of theconference are helping the Communists...
...vanished by conference's end. Nasser held a reception for the 500 conference delegates at Cairo's Abdin Palace, granted long private interviews to the heads of Soviet and Red Chinese delegations. The single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations on $29,000 contributed by Egypt. The council's ten-man permanent secretariat, which includes representatives of Russia and Red China, will have an Egyptian secretary-general. When...
...fact, Nasser had with his own hand struck a grievous blow at his prospects of achieving leadership of Afro-Asia's restive peoples. For by giving Egyptian backing to the permanent Afro-Asian Council, he had in effect gone into partnership with Russia in a campaign to undermine Western influence in Africa. And in a partnership between Egypt and Russia, even self-confident Gamal Abdel Nasser could scarcely doubt which partner would call the tune...
...Time for Turkomans. The conference's origins lay not in Cairo but in India, where 2½ years ago a pro-Communist Ihdian M.P. named Anup Singh organized the "Asian Solidarity Committee" to influence the first Afro-Asian conference at Bandung (TIME, May 2, 1955). Last year Singh approached Nasser, suggested a conference in Cairo as a suitable sequel to Bandung. It was a play on words. The delegates to the Bandung conference had been official representatives of their nations, many of them heads of their governments. The delegates to the Cairo conference officially represented nobody but themselves. Unofficially...