Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Issue. Even in the paralyzed U.N. General Assembly, Peking's pals were busy raising a final bit of hell before adjournment. In Cambodia, Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk, who long ago decided that the Red Chinese are bound to win in Asia, is convening an Indo-Chinese People's Conference, at which many of the area's Communist and pro-Communist groups will no doubt demand the withdrawal of the U.S. "aggressors." Sihanouk's scheme was dignified by a letter from Charles de Gaulle, whose Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, was in Washington pushing...
...existence on U.S. determination and skill. After a U.S. retreat from South Viet Nam, not many would care to make such a bet. In short, withdrawal would largely destroy American credibility as a reliable anti-Communist ally-in Bangkok, in Seoul, in Manila and elsewhere. It would push Cambodia and Indonesia completely into China's lap. Malaysia would catch the brunt of this power realignment, thus forcing the British into a narrow, nasty corner. According to many experts, Russia would regret this move as much as the U.S., since it would immensely strengthen Peking's pretensions...
...been briefed many times, as have other members of the Foreign Relations Committee and all this time witness after witness from the State Department and from the Pentagon have admitted under examination that they had no knowledge of any foreign troops in South Vietnam, from North vietnam, Red China, Cambodia, or anywhere else." Rather, "the sad fact is that the only foreign troops that have been in South Vietnam in any numbers have been American troops...
...desertion of a friend who has risked his life for me. Red China's most effective propaganda in the Far-East has been calling the U.S. a paper tiger who will not support her friends. We lost the trust of Pakistan for this reason. We lost the trust of Cambodia for this reason. Following the twisted rationalization of the May 2nd Committee we shall lose all of Asia for this reason. William H. Overholt...
...reasons, the United States should welcome Soviet influence in North Viet Nam. First, unlike China, Russia favors a negotiated settlement of the war and is reluctant to spread the "peoples' rebellion" to neighboring Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Eventually America will have to go to the conference table to end this war, and Russian intervention brings that table one step closer...