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Phony Money. "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma and his half brother, Red Prince Souphanouvong, arrived from their headquarters in the Plaine des Jarres. Each was accompanied by a bodyguard: Souphanouvong's men in faded green outfits and squashed Red Chinese-style caps; Souvanna's paratroops in camouflage uniforms supplied by the French...
...Afro-Asian nations which, like India itself, have always preached patience and compromise to the U.S., did not even raise a whisper of protest over India's Charter violation. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "One could hope that a few voices would be heard in the neutralist camp to deplore, in however friendly a fashion, the Indian decision. It seems that anticolonialism excuses everything." Obviously unable to line up any support from Afro-Asian nations to censure India, the U.S. dropped the matter with unseemly haste. This situation reflected the new facts of life...
...tons of surplus wheat and 30,000 tons of edible oils at cut-rate prices. Marshal Tito, the Communist dictator of hungry Yugoslavia, originally requested twice that amount after Yugoslavian wheat harvests turned out poorly: then Tito proceeded to denounce the U.S. at the Belgrade conference of "neutralist" nations (TIME, Sept. 15). The half-a-loaf grant was made in the hope that Tito, however hostile to the U.S., might still be useful as a Communist leader who can operate independently of Moscow when he has a mind...
...best to ignore Communist China's latest incursions in a vast (50,000 sq. mi.), disputed area oi northeastern India, Nehru declared recently that Portugal's lush, Rhode Island-sized colony of Goa on India's west coast was becoming increasingly "intolerable." Last week, for all Neutralist Nehru's past protestations that India would never use force tp eject the Portuguese from the last European colony on Indian soil, his armed forces were building up on Goa's 180-mile border, and Nehru himself announced that he was "on the verge" of military intervention...
...been apparent for a long time: Panch Shila's use as the guiding force in India's China policy is, as the Indian Express put it, "dead as the dodo." Not dead but severely damaged was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's claim to a special neutralist magic in his dealings with Communism...