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Pakistan's handsome President Mohammed Ayub Khan last week completed Stage 2 of his diplomatic grand tour. His first stop had been Peking, where he got the red-carpet treatment, was hailed by cheering thousands who beat gongs and drums in welcome, and had formal banquets and long talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Out of it all came an interest-free $60 million loan with which to purchase Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
...Ayub Khan expected more of the same in Moscow, he was disappointed. The Soviet reception was correct but cool. There was no 21-gun salute; there were no TV cameras, no crowds of citizens trucked out from the city or little girls with floral bouquets. After all, Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand...
...Karachi, Chou got red-carpet treatment, though his name was misspelled "Chau" on a welcoming banner. He had a long and private talk with Ayub Khan, and a formal dinner at the President's floodlit house. Next day a Pakistani spokesman said the discussions had concerned the "tense and delicate situation prevailing in Southeast Asia, with special reference to Viet Nam." Pakistan hoped that "all nations, large and small, Asian and non-Asian, will play their role in bringing tranquillity and peace to that unfortunate country that has seen warfare for over two decades." Ayub was clearly enjoying...
...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...second, demagogic, category of Asian leaders, the worst is Indonesia's Sukarno, whose campaign to "crush Malaysia" as a "neocolonialist" plot furnishes Indonesia with a phony national purpose and distracts attention from his own disastrous misrule. Even Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan of Pakistan plays up "the Indian menace" to strengthen his political hand, warns darkly: "India wants to settle every dispute with force and aggression...