Word: afro-asian
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...hypocritical nature of Indian foreign policy has been at last revealed to the world. It is most regrettable that a man like Nehru is allowed to get away as the "spokesman" of the Afro-Asian countries. By her bullying action the present Indian government has lost all claim to moral authority...
...Joined Britain at the United Nations in backing France's claim that France should be allowed to settle her problems in rebellious Algeria in her own way (see FOREIGN NEWS). Thus standing off the Afro-Asian bloc's demands for an immediate Algerian cease-fire and elections, the U.S. served notice that it does not intend to carry its enthusiasm for burgeoning independence movements to the extreme of upsetting well-established friendly governments...
...French demanded that the proposed Common Market investment fund contribute development capital to French colonies-something which the Germans felt would discredit the organization in the eyes of the Afro-Asian nations (this one is still not settled). The Italians wanted the investment fund to concentrate on underdeveloped areas of Europe, specifically the Mezzogiorno, or Italian South...
...Mollet had actually restated his intentions largely for its effect on the U.N., whose Afro-Asian members have once again called for a General Assembly debate on Algeria. For the first time, the French have agreed to let the matter be debated. But, reiterated the Premier, Algeria is a French domestic problem, and "I must ask the U.N. not to interfere." Quai d'Orsay officials privately warned American correspondents that if the U.S. votes for any resolution recognizing U.N. authority to intervene in Algeria it would seriously jeopardize Franco-American friendship...
...more European unity, also told his press conference that the U.S. differed with Britain and France on some "fundamental things," particularly colonialism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and that in the years to come the U.S. would not give 100% support to either the colonial powers or the new anticolonial Afro-Asian powers. Even in London Dulles' candor caused outspoken anger, and in France U.S. prestige sank. Already disillusioned by U.S. "equivocation" over Suez and profoundly worried by France's isolation in her desperate colonial problem. Frenchmen should not have been surprised to learn that the U S. a Pacific...