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...illness of the President, the United States has lost the initiative in the world struggle with the Communists. Congress is particularly upset by official testimony that Moscow may well be the first to produce a 1,500-mile guided missile. Reports from West Germany of the weakening of the pro-Western Adenauer coalition, reports of growing weakness in Turkey and of misuse of American economic aid in South Korea have all led to widespread demands, not merely for an investigation of the Middle Eastern situation, but for a searching inquiry into the whole purpose and machinery of American foreign policy...
...goat would not much matter were it not for the "terrible bear" to the north. Three years ago, backward* Afghanistan would not have dared to make demands on bigger and well-armed Pakistan. At that time Afghanistan was governed by two of the King's pro-Western uncles. Then Daoud Shah, brother-in-law of the King, began to get ambitious. In Moscow for Stalin's funeral, Daoud talked to Molotov long and earnestly. Six months later, backed by army leaders, Daoud ousted the King's uncles, installed himself as Prime Minister and named his brother Nairn...
...social measures. In other words, over the prostrate body of the nation would rule two demagogues, one a flaming nationalist, the other a pseudo-Socialist." His scorn was directed at the Concentration's fond ambition to pass foreign policy measures with help from the Monarchists (who are pro-Western) and economic reforms with votes from Pietro Nenni's Communist-line Socialists. It was a dangerous game, founded on the Concentration's conviction that it can use fellow-traveler Nenni without being used...
...charter of human rights. "There is nothing in this proposal which can be opposed by anybody," said Nehru approvingly. But Pakistan's Ali insisted stubbornly: "This conference will not be realistic if it discusses only one side of colonialism and not the other." There, with a pro-Western majority confronting Neutralists Nehru, U Nu and Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, the conference deadlocked. (In the end, the conference agreed to denounce "colonialism in all its manifestations...
...some of their own officials. Less melodramatically, Bandung's other featured performers streamed in. From Manila came ebullient Carlos Romulo, determined to fight off any effort to turn Bandung into an anti-U.S. or anti-Western propaganda barrage. Also lined up on the pro-Western side: Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, Thailand's Oxford-educated Prince Wan Waithayakon, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu (a former NATO delegate), and Lebanon's stoutly pro-Western Charles Malik. Besides Chou's, there was only one Communist delegation: North Viet...