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Nehru himself went to the New Delhi airfield one day last week to meet Premier Sastroamidjojo, treated him to a bigger welcoming crowd than Chou En-lai had rated, and weighed him down with garlands and praise. Proudly, Nehru expounded his "Five Principles" for Asian peace, terms he had insisted on incorporating in the Tibet treaty concluded with
First volunteer to step up from the audience was Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo, currently Nehru's favorite Asian friend because Indonesia was the only nation at the Colombo meeting last April to agree that the tired old wolf, Colonialism, was more terrifying than the bumptious new tiger, Communism...
...China: 1) mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty; 2) mutual nonaggression; 3) noninterference in each other's internal affairs; 4) equality and mutual benefit; 5) peaceful coexistence. Did not Premier Sastroamidjojo think these were far better than Manila-type alliances with white men? Sastroamidjojo certainly did. "Peace in our part of the world cannot be assured by military pacts, such as that recently concluded at Manila," he told the Indian Parliament. "There is a better way to preserve peace-by cooperation and coexistence...
...Indo-China; 2) indefinite suspension of H-bomb tests; 3) a vote of censure against "colonialism." Nehru expected some opposition at Colombo from Pakistan's young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. But he counted on support from Burma's Thakin Nu, Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo and Ceylon's Sir John Kotalawala. All of them had recognized Red China, were trading freely with it, and had often let Nehru speak for them in the past...
...into trouble. Pakistan's Ali insisted that withdrawal of the Big Powers from Indo-China would be meaningless: there was no way of insuring that Red China would stop supplying the Red Viet Minh. To Nehru's surprise. Ceylon's Kotalawala supported Ali. Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, who rules back home with Red support, took his stand to the left of Nehru and stayed there for the rest of the conference. But then came another surprise: Burma's young (47), soft-spoken Nu, a longtime Nehru man, came out hard against the Nehru plan: the plan...