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After six weeks' inquiry, an Indonesian investigating commission last week brought in its findings on the Air India Constellation which crashed, killing 16 persons, including eight Red Chinese on their way (after a stopover in Hong Kong) to the Bandung Conference (TIME, April 25). Verdict: sabotage. Having salvaged almost 90% of the wreckage from the shallow waters off Great Natuna Island in the South China Sea, the commission said that it found "positive evidence of an explosion in the starboard wheel-well of a timed infernal machine." The evidence consisted of 1) "deep pitting by shrapnel." 2) "a hole...
...Government . . . The Chinese people have two possible means to liberate Formosa, namely by war or by peaceful means. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means, so far as it is possible." This was substantially what Communist Chou had said after Bandung last month and, with its familiar qualifying clauses, seemed hardly calculated to advance the chances of a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits...
...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...
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...