Word: sihanouk
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...Real Issue. Even in the paralyzed U.N. General Assembly, Peking's pals were busy raising a final bit of hell before adjournment. In Cambodia, Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk, who long ago decided that the Red Chinese are bound to win in Asia, is convening an Indo-Chinese People's Conference, at which many of the area's Communist and pro-Communist groups will no doubt demand the withdrawal of the U.S. "aggressors." Sihanouk's scheme was dignified by a letter from Charles de Gaulle, whose Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, was in Washington pushing...
...TIME stated that "Cambodia is virtually a Peking satellite. Prince Sihanouk is openly aiding the Communist guerrillas in Viet Nam by providing them sanctuary" [Nov. 13]. It is clear that, in your opinion, any Asian country that rejects invasion by your armed forces and your ridiculous military bases can only be a satellite of China. The Viet Cong guerrillas have no need of Cambodia as a "sanctuary," where they have never been tolerated. Though your forces may control the towns of South Viet Nam, almost the whole of the rest of the country is in the hands of the guerrillas...
...NORODOM SIHANOUK Chief of State Pnompenh, Cambodia...
TIME based its judgment not on Sihanouk's rejection of U.S. aid, but on his sympathy for the Viet Cong and flirtation with Red China. Last week Pnompenh radio announced that China agreed to supply 20,000 Cambodian troops with heavy artillery and other equipment...
...Supposedly a "spontaneous" expression of outrage on the part of freedom-loving or newly emerged peoples, the demo is actually a carefully prepared propaganda device, and sometimes a safety valve through which shaky potentates can let off the steam of an uneasy citizenry. As Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk said after a mob of students and agitators tore up the U.S. and British embassies in Phnompenh last spring: "The riots were inexcusable but comprehensible. They translated the legitimate exasperation of Cambodian youth before the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers." Of course the riots...