Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fluttering Flags. In Cambodia Kishi was welcomed with fluttering flags and welcome arches, agreed to extend $4,000,000 (in yen) in economic aid over a three-year period. In the crumbling Laotian capital of Vientiane, sarong-clad beauties pressed bouquets on Kishi, and Laotian government officials welcomed his offer of $4,000,000 in aid and technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major...
...done it? Nobody could be sure. Many took it as a warning of new anti-American activity by Communist groups still terrorizing the swampy country near the Cambodia border. But if the Communists had hoped to disrupt the Colombo conference, they had failed miserably. Dancing an exotic Brazilian samba to the music of a New Orleans jazz band at the Cercle Sportif that evening, an Indian economist announced happily, "The bombs had no effect whatever on our conference. This city is simply full of life...
...blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great days of a truly free China are still to come...
...celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Communist conquest of China. There were the well-drilled children of the Young Pioneers, paratroopers, government workers with flowers in hand. Overhead roared Soviet-made jet bombers and Chinese-made jet fighters. Also on hand were goodwill delegations from Burma and Cambodia, Bulgaria's Premier Anton Yugov, and Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar...
...Bangkok last week, there was a good chance that this kind of appeal might fall on receptive ears. In Thailand, as in the neighboring kingdom of Cambodia and to a lesser extent even in Diem's own homeland of South Viet Nam, neutralism and anti-Americanism have shown a marked and steady increase during the past 18 months. Bangkok diplomats just smiled when Thai Premier Pibulsonggram, one of the shrewdest politicians in Southeast Asia, observed blandly of Diem's visit: "Politics won't be discussed. This is a state visit." The fact is that, though Pibulsonggram...