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...second, demagogic, category of Asian leaders, the worst is Indonesia's Sukarno, whose campaign to "crush Malaysia" as a "neocolonialist" plot furnishes Indonesia with a phony national purpose and distracts attention from his own disastrous misrule. Even Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan of Pakistan plays up "the Indian menace" to strengthen his political hand, warns darkly: "India wants to settle every dispute with force and aggression...
...term, vowed the Sandhurst-educated soldier who seized power in 1958, would be different. "My government," he declared, "will be more in touch with the elected representatives of the people than before." Not only would he set up "forums of intellectuals, experts and knowledgeable persons" for official consultation, Ayub promised, but "In any case, I shall welcome a personal letter from any source if it has an original or workable idea...
Honest Broker. Ayub stoutly maintains that his cozying up to Red China will not damage U.S. interests in Asia. "For your sakes we stuck our necks out on every bloody occasion," the Sandhurst-trained ex-soldier told recent American visitors. "You can say we damned well had to because you were giving us aid. But our security is important too. Merely because you are not on friendly terms with China, you expect all your friends to do likewise...
...tour started in Washington, with a briefing by John McCone, head of the Central Intelligence Agency. After a stop in Paris, where TIME'S principal Asia correspondents joined the party, the first visit was to Pakistan. At his Karachi residence, Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan, a red rose in his lapel, bluntly discussed the problems facing his country and the U.S. Chief among these is Pakistan's bitterness over American military aid to India, which Ayub feels will sooner or later be used not against the Communists in Asia but against his own country. As a result, Pakistan...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a prominent and controversial Tory politician, and his American-born bride, Jennie Jerome of New York, Churchill was an erratic scholar as a boy, but he was finally graduated from Harrow and from Sandhurst, England's military academy...