Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, in which both nations agree in general to complete disarmament but do not see eye to eye on how to achieve it. Again the snag is inspection; the U.S. insists on it, Russia says talk about it later. At the U.N., Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk threw his weight behind the idea of inspectors from neutral nations...
...Emperor: Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. Kings: Nepal's Mahendra and Morocco's Hassan II. Princes: Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana...
...Sihanouk is eager to see an end to the tension between the U.S. and Red China, but his suggested solution is not one likely to appeal to Washington: "I think it necessary and even urgent that Washington and Peking should reconcile-the price is Formosa. Red China will never accept a compromise over Formosa, and I wouldn't be stupid enough to propose one. Besides, the Laotian affair has taught me that the role of mediator is most ungrateful: one receives blows from all sides and is suspected by everyone...
Modest Hope. Though cordial, out of necessity, to Red China ("I have eaten rice with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung"), Prince Sihanouk deals roughly with Cambodia's native Communists, who, he says bluntly, wish "to destroy" him because he will not practice "onesided neutrality" in the manner of Laos' Red Prince Souphanouvong. His desire to preserve Cambodian neutrality now takes the form of wanting the West to be stronger, for he believes that Communism is on the rise in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to find a counterbalance...
...wish only to have the respect of both sides," Sihanouk says bleakly. "There is always danger that the one who tries to separate two fighting buffaloes will have his belly ripped open. That's the basic attitude of Cambodia in the struggle of the great powers-we want to remain indifferent to their quarrels...