Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the most important of the friends is Prince Souvanna Phouma, one of the two rival "Premiers" of Laos. Fortnight ago, neutralist Prince Souvanna sent an aide to Wilde's hotel room in Pnompenh, Cambodia, to tell him he had just half an hour to get one of the best stories of his career: a trip to the Communist side of the front in Laos. Wilde hurried aboard the Ilyushin-14 that was waiting at Pnompenh airport to fly Souvanna north...
...world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos of all foreign bases. All he asked was that a commission come in from his neutral neighbors-Cambodia, Burma and Malaya-to stop the fighting and to identify and denounce any foreign interventionists...
Russia was in no hurry to come to terms. Premonsoon rains had turned Laos' few roads to quagmires, bogging down the halfhearted Royal Army drive against rebel strongholds. Cambodia, under heavy pressure from Red China, declined to participate in the King's plan, and called again for a grandiose, 14-nation conference on little Laos. Such a round table would only prolong the sputtering civil war indefinitely-while giving the Red Chinese a seat and a propaganda forum...
Tough Side. In a last effort to save the King's gambit, President Kennedy himself made a direct appeal by letter to Cambodia's nervous young Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Alternatively, there was talk of finding some other neutral nations to fill out the commission. But the U.S. had obviously bent about as far as it intended to. In fact, the more reliable anti-Communists of Southeast Asia were openly miffed. "The neutrals sidestep the responsibilities in the area and the really tough decisions," griped a Thai diplomat. "And then you keep inviting them back to settle everybody else...
Meanwhile, with no fuss whatsoever, President Kennedy asked some 40 career ambassadors to remain at their present posts. Among them: Roy Rubottom, Argentina; H. Freeman Matthews, Austria; John Moors Cabot, Brazil; Edward Page Jr., Bulgaria; William C. Trimble, Cambodia; Christian M. Ravndal, Czechoslovakia; Robert McClintock, Lebanon...