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LAST month's talks between Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia and Chester Bowles, Johnson's special envoy, produced enough noise to conceal their lack of substance. Bowles and Sihanouk agreed to ask the Southeast Asian International Control Commission to save Cambodia from drowning in the overflow of the Vietnam war. As a diplomatic exercise, the joint appeal may have been something of a success. But as a means of protecting Cambodia, the ICC would prove hopelessly inadequate...
PRESIDENT Johnson probably welcomed returning Korean envoy Cyrus Vance last week with a smile as big as a Texas barbecue. Vance, after all, had just pacified another of our finicky Asian allies--at what must have seemed bargain price: 100 million dollars in additional Korean aid. The calculable cost may indeed have been small. But on the balance, the Vance mission is a sad reminder of the short-sighted statesmanship which has generated America's open-ended Asian commitments...
Repeatedly urged to withdraw their names by letter, telegram, and personal envoy from Rockefeller, the delegates decided to stand fast and ignore their candidate's wishes...
...Purple Code. The World War I episode concerns the notorious telegram sent by the German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmermann, to his envoy in Mexico; in code it stated Germany's intention of opening unlimited submarine warfare against the U.S. and offered various bribes to get Mexico's support. Decoded by British cryptanalysts, the telegram provided President Wilson with telling evidence to support the U.S. declaration of war on Germany...
...freedom, verve and humor that Disney might have admired. Their short subjects (four minutes maximum) range from settings of favorite nursery rhymes to imaginative moralistic fables like The Amazing Colossal Man, written and produced by a dozen workshoppers. In this no-nonsense parable, suspicious earthlings annihilate a peace envoy from outer space...