Word: colombo
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...nation upon another must endanger peace," Nehru pointedly remarked one evening at dinner. "I earnestly hope the people of China will cooperate." And when Chou suggested that Red China should attend Nehru's projected conference of Asian and African neutrals, Nehru silkily referred Chou to the sponsoring "Colombo Powers," for "it is not I who will be sending out invitations...
First volunteer to step up from the audience was Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo, currently Nehru's favorite Asian friend because Indonesia was the only nation at the Colombo meeting last April to agree that the tired old wolf, Colonialism, was more terrifying than the bumptious new tiger, Communism...
...Ceylon, the Rev. Bob Richards, 28, consultant in Christian life activities at California's La Verne College, world's top pole vaulter and holder of the national A.A.U. decathlon title, was invited to address the Sunday school of the Methodist Church in Colombo. Suddenly the invitation was canceled. Reason: Bob, known as "the pole-vaulting padre," was found to have participated in Sunday sports...
...will undertake in that event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. working draft had specified "Communist aggression." But Secretary of State Dulles was persuaded to take out the word "Communist" in order to render the agreement more attractive to the four "Colombo powers" (India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon-especially the last two) who had stayed away. In a separate protocol, the U.S. made it clear that it promised to react only to Communist attacks, in order not to get mixed up in brawls between non-Communist Asian nations-for example, a fight between India...
...powers of Asia with the largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...