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...Indians to Oxford, won honors and a law degree. Politics-minded, he became a city councilman in Calcutta, a member for 24 years (1921-45) of the provincial legislative council of British-run Bengal; in 1946 he became provincial Chief Minister. Though a Moslem, he lined up with Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian leaders in the struggle for Indian independence. In 1946, when bitter Hindu-Moslem rivalry burst into bloody street fighting in Calcutta, Suhrawardy joined Mahatma Gandhi in perilous trips through the riot areas to preach and dramatize Hindu-Moslem good will, won a reputation as a courageous moderate...
...those government leaders who went to London, two, India's Nehru and Pakistan's Suhrawardy, were notoriously incompatible, and a third-Ghana's Nkrumah-had just annoyed the British by substituting his own portrait of the Queen's on Ghana's new stamps and coins...
...Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty...
Kishi's tour of Southeast Asia was designed as a prelude to his U.S. visit: he wanted to claim to speak for Asian opinion. In New Delhi Kishi outlined to Jawaharlal Nehru his own plan for a U.S.-financed billion-dollar Asian development program, listened in mild surprise when Nehru labeled the idea "American aid in disguise." In Rangoon Kishi impressed his Burmese hosts with Japan's desire to supply technical know-how to other Asian nations. Somewhere along the way he came down with a case of dysentery. (It may be pure coincidence, but the head...
...soft and kind young man, a devout Buddhist who abhors seeing any of his people suffering, Sihanouk has been through many changes of heart. The whole world cheered the way his representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia's economically powerful Chinese...