Word: anti-american
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Things began, dashingly enough, with a deal signed with Communist Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia for small arms, jet fighters and bombers. In Djakarta. Communist and left-wing newspapers interrupted their anti-American, anti-SEATO tirades long enough to cheer wildly President Sukarno's new link with the Reds. Bands of young toughs smeared anti-U.S. slogans on the walls of the American embassy in Djakarta; Red-run delegations streamed up the embassy steps to present resolutions telling the U.S. to keep its hands off Indonesia...
...detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
Diefenbaker's vision called for the mineral development of the vast, empty northland for Canada's exclusive benefit. Some observers detected tinny overtones of anti-American sentiment in the vision's emphasis on economic nationalism and Diefenbaker's veiled warnings to foreign owners of Canadian resource industries...
With certain exceptions, the Soviet authorities translate nothing that does not serve a utilitarian or propaganda purpose. Two big hits in Moscow were The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, and The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. Mr. Greene's novel attacked colonialism and is profoundly anti-American in a subtle and effective way, and the Hemingway book shows what happens to an old fisherman in a bourgeois society who does not have social security...
...benefit of Washington newsmen, the nation's least likely revolutionary reminisced about his student days at the University of Paris (1908-09). Discussing anti-American riots in Indonesia, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles commented: "I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally ... I can't remember now which side it was on. That shows how students just like to riot...