Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize...
Soothing Words. What had changed the prince's mind? For centuries Cambodia, heir of the lost civilization of Khmer, has had to fight off incursions from its close neighbors-Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma. Two months ago a Viet Nam battalion occupied three Cambodian border villages, after having previously imprisoned a number of Cambodian peasants. Sihanouk appeared to think invasion was imminent...
...appealed to the U.S. for aid, threatening that if it was not forthcoming, Cambodia would use "all means at its disposal, political or otherwise, to achieve respect for its national integrity." When the U.S. supplied him only with soothing words, Sihanouk rushed to embrace Red China, announcing the news as he and his Cabinet, in a typical Mao stunt, posed working in the fields to show the common touch...
...news was ominous enough to wrench State Department eyes momentarily away from the Mideast crisis. Carl W. Strom, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, flew home to Washington for consultations. Neighboring Thailand abruptly declared a "state of emergency" on its border with Cambodia. Voices were raised in the Philippines for a meeting of the SEATO powers to deal with Cambodia's action...
...Saigon, Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was the most seriously disturbed, for Red penetration of Cambodia would outflank his nation and give the Communist Chinese access to the Gulf of Siam. Diem rushed his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh to negotiate a settlement of the border question, and the Cambodian radio announced that terms had been discussed in a "relaxed atmosphere." Sihanouk promised, as soon as he returns from his current junket to Peking, to pay a visit to President Diem in Saigon...