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...meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Council of Foreign Ministers in Karachi, Dulles helped to bolster SEATO's determination to move forward on military and economic legs. In New Delhi he sought to convince Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that the U.S. is not a warmonger and would like to be a closer friend to India. In Djakarta (where the Times of Indonesia had declared only a few weeks earlier: "That man should be kept out of here, by force if necessary") Dulles' car was heckled by youths who cried, "Down with SEATO!" But when he left, after...
...Such as India's Nehru, Eire's De Valera, South Africa's Smuts, Singapore's David Marshall, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah, many of whom spent time in British jails. Nkrumah campaigned wearing "PG" proudly on his cap, for "prison graduate...
...Uncle Nehru. Watching from afar, India's Prime Minister Nehru praised Sihanouk ("a young man with a wise head") and became his long-distance adviser and mentor. Last month, after a state visit to the Philippines, young Sihanouk began expressing views like those of Nehru. Angry at some heavy-handed "advising"' he had been subjected to in Manila, he charged the Philippines with participating in a U.S. plot to ensnare him into the SEATO pact (see above) and protested bitterly that while the U.S. had given the Philippines heavy farm machinery and hospitals, all Cambodia...
Prompted by Nehru, Sihanouk next visited Red China's Premier Chou En-lai in Peking. Up to that moment Cambodia (the most serene of the three states that once made up French Indo-China) had been one of the few remaining countries in Southeast Asia where overseas Chinese, controlling most of the country's transport, banking and merchandising, appeared to retain a basic sympathy with Nationalist China. Said Sihanouk, stepping out of the plane on his return from Peking three weeks ago: "There are two Chinas, but the only China to which Cambodians go is Communist China." Almost...
...general communique: "Don't bow any more or kneel in the dust when you meet me . . . Don't call me Highness or Prince, call me Honorable Comrade." Sihanouk called his new policy the Pancha Shila, or the five principles of purification. He borrowed the words from Nehru, but Sihanouk's five principles are: no official cars, no government housing, no titles, no fancy uniforms, no sojourning at les lieux de plaisirs (entertainment places...