Word: bandung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe the pacts to rearm West Germany as part of the West's defense against Communism were at last in effect. Reacting almost desperately to that fact, the Soviet Union was anxiously seeking a settlement in Austria. In Asia, at Bandung, the prime minister of Asian Communism, China's Chou Enlai, had encountered angry and unexpected opposition from fellow Asians. As a result, he had been forced to revise his tactics...
...added up to net progress for the U.S. and its allies. The Reds still had the initiative in the Formosa Strait-it was they who could start a war or grab territory-but the U.S. was parrying their diplomatic thrusts. For the moment, the anti-Communist feeling shown at Bandung was the big, new fact in Asia. And the recent European success of the anti-Communist forces far outbalanced all Red Asian gains...
Annoyed, Sir John furiously delivered himself of the conference's plainest talk. If Chou really believed in coexistence, said Sir John, why did he not call off the subversive activities of the Communist parties throughout Asia? (see box next page). From that moment on, any move at Bandung to denounce "Western colonialism" while ignoring Communist imperialism was doomed to failure...
...Nehru tends to patronize, and others to underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour of the U.S. last year, he told everyone from President Eisenhower on down that...
Other proven friends of the West (Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines) spoke effectively for the West at Bandung. The significance of Sir John Kotelawala's speech was that it came from a neutralist, who, perceiving the bogus neutrality of Nehru's anticolonialism, clearly redefined the issue. Excerpts...