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...West should "bend over backwards" to understand the newly-independent African states before criticizing them, Kumar Goshal, foreign affairs editor of the National Guardian, told a Liberal Union audience yesterday...
...Goshal, who recently interviewed leaders of sub-Saharan Africa, repeatedly insisted that though nations like Ghana have just attained independence, the U.S. wrongly expects them to behave with the political sophistication that took America 200 years to develop...
...plan was devised last March. Communist delegates attended a "Southeast Asia Youth Conference" in Calcutta. A planeload of experts from Moscow came to give them their orders. Representing Burma was stout, 30-year-old Hari Narayan Goshal. From Malaya came Chinese Communist Lee Soong and from Australia, Laurence Sharkey, who flew back to Singapore with Lee for a two-week stay after the conference...
Most nearly reduced to the Indo-China level was Burma, in normal years the world's largest rice exporter. After Goshal's return from the Calcutta conference, a series of uprisings broke out which reached their peak just when Burmese peasants should have been out in the paddy fields gathering the new crop. Last week, as Burma's parties battled for power, and food prices in Rangoon soared, it was doubtful whether Burma this year could even feed herself...
Most of the confusion in Burma was caused by rival Marxists. Hari Goshal, carrying out the Calcutta plan, was busily at work with the so-called White Flag Communists. A group called Red Flag Communists worked separately from them. Closest to the government in outlook, but believing in cooperation with the Communists, was a group of veterans of the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized by former Premier U Aung San, assassinated last year. Another important group is the Karens, who are mostly Christian, and oppose the government, which they say is heavily Marxist...