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...neutralist game of East against West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced, the U.S.-sponsored Baghdad Pact. He refused to sign a military-aid agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that...
...intellectual's activity, which was formerly stifled to a large degree, is now encouraged to the point that Chou En-lai has declared that "at least five-sixths of the intellectual's 48-hour week should be spent in individual contemplative activity...
...foreign affairs. The coexistence policy, a successful operation a year ago, had been literally shot to pieces by the Russian attack on Hungary. To restore their prestige in the satellite countries, the Soviet leaders had had to call on the good offices of Red China's urbane Chou Enlai, a manifest humiliation for Russian leadership. Finally, they had the difficult job of reassuring their own elite that they were in full and competent command of the Communist world...
...neither corn nor peanuts that China's Chou En-lai paid a visit to Cambodia last November. Sihanouk gave him the royal bed, and Chou blanketed the country with Communist propaganda. Cambodian newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament...
...Pained." Consoling as the moral victory was to the Pakistanis, it was not likely to have much practical effect. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru, informed of the U.N.'s vote as he saw Red China's Chou En-lai off at the airport, announced: "I am deeply pained by this . . . But may I point out that the Kashmir Constituent Assembly has finished its work, dissolves itself tonight and disappears . . . The position remains as it is now." A few hours later, in the Kashmiri capital of Jammu. Puppet Premier Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammed formally proclaimed adoption of the constitution...