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Most dramatic symbol of the cold war's progress last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was Tibet's Dalai Lama, who, at the cost of physical defeat, won a psychological victory. Red China's rape of Tibet stirred the neutralist powers of Asia as the Soviet rape of Hungary never had. With shock, Asians suddenly realized that there could be "yellow colonialism" as well as "white colonialism...
...rulers had no political program at all. But, because the tide of Arab nationalism was running high everywhere, Colonel Aref had a somewhat hazy idea for closer relations with Nasser's United Arab Republic. In Kassem's mind was a similarly muddled idea for setting up a neutralist Iraqi state...
Swedes had never seen the like of Nycop's Expressen. Circulation climbed as Nycop championed the underdog (e.g., juvenile delinquents), riled Sweden's neutralist government by urging membership in NATO, gibed at the institution of monarchy. "The monarchy," says Nycop, "is undemocratic. I'm all for King Gustaf. He's a remarkably good executive. But the next one could be an idiot...
Either way, neutralist India would prefer not to have to think about it. At his press conference last week, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed that "it is well known that there have been troubles in certain parts of Tibet," but added that he did not want to exaggerate them-just as he only softly acknowledges "reports that the Chinese have moved into one or two small pockets of our territory...
...scale. The 36-year-old Prince (who resigned as King in 1955 because he likes being Premier better) has welcomed aid missions to Cambodia from the U.S., France, Russia and Communist China alike. After tours of Red China and the U.S., he proclaimed himself impressed by both. But Neutralist Sihanouk is sadly out of tune with his next-door neighbors on the Gulf of Siam...