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...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...
...overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west Java, stronghold of the Moslem Masjumi Party, they had apparently replaced President Sukarno...
...Shooters. Communist China rolled out the Red carpet for Singh, called him the "potential leader of Free Nepal." But suddenly he was dropped by the Communists (a casualty in Chou En-lai's new policy of coexistence with India), and at the Bandung Conference Chou En-lai agreed to return Singh and his followers to Nepal. Singh arrived in Katmandu to the sound of brass bands and cheering thousands, found that corruption and inefficiency in local government had enhanced the memory of him as a Robin Hood. To stimulate the legend of his past military feats, he took...
...first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent James Bell that he does not recognize the legality of Sukarno's Communist-infested super-council. Said Djuanda: "You must remember that the Constituent Assembly still sits in Bandung. Hence, the solutions in government structure now in evidence are temporary. The Constituent Assembly might well decide that what we need is a Senate and not a National Council...
...correspondent for the Afro-American, whose circulation is greater than any other Negro newspaper, he has covered the Asian Socialist Conference, the Korean peace negotiations at Panmunjon, and the Asian-African conference at Bandung. He has traveled as extensively as any American reporter can behind the Iron Curtain...