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Despite Peking's eagerness to see India take a shellacking, the war hardly fits China's devoutly held Leninist belief in an inevitable clash between Com munism and the "capitalist-imperialist" West. Here were two former colonial states, both Asian and both underdeveloped, at each other's throats. Yet Communist China tirelessly reiterates that it is precisely such nations-the "have nots" of Asia, Africa and Latin America-that must eventually encircle the West and destroy it in a worldwide holocaust of "people's wars." Time and again, Peking has shown its readiness to provoke such...
...Commonwealth heads of state to follow suit. Red China gleefully came out for Pakistan, and on a Karachi visit last week, Foreign Minister Chen Yi pledged China's support of Pakistan in repelling "Indian armed provocation." Indonesian students in Djakarta joyfully wrecked the Indian embassy, screaming "Crush India, the imperialist lackey...
...esprit of Hanoi's Communist cadres, North Vietnamese morale has slipped since the bombings began. Says British Orientalist P. J. Honey: "They are holding constant indoctrination courses to intensify the people's hatred of the 'imperialist' Americans, which they never had to do against the French. The way they keep up spirits is to claim they have shot down hundreds of American planes. But the planes keep coming over in increasing numbers, which must make the North Vietnamese peasant wonder...
Applause & Riots. The treaty was applauded in Washington, which had long worked on both nations to bury their differences. Since the agreements significantly exclude Communist-ruled North Korea, Asian Reds loudly echoed Radio Peking's charge that it was "another step in the program of U.S. imperialist aggression...
Last week things reached a climax of sorts when Odinga, in his first direct attack on his President, rose at a rally on the shore of Lake Victoria to de clare that Kenyatta had fallen under imperialist influence and was all but taking his orders from the U.S. and Britain. It brought an outraged response from Kenyatta's Cabinet ministers, who called the attack "cheap politics" and "calculated to further the cause of Communism." Five party leaders, already angered by Odinga's role in Communist arms imports (TIME, April 23), signed a petition demanding his resignation from...