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Personal Attention. Host Prince Norodom Sihanouk had long been on record as considering De Gaulle and Mao Tse-tung the two greatest men in the world; thus, since Mao had never made the scene, De Gaulle was clearly Cambodia's all-time guest. Ever since De Gaulle invited himself, Sihanouk had been beside himself with preparations, personally presiding over every detail...
...headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on the future of Africa. In Cambodia he was to meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, presumably to condemn the war in Viet Nam. In Tahiti he was to watch the detonation of the eighth nuclear device of his celebrated force de frappe...
...weeks ago, it seemed that U.S. relations with Cambodia's sensitive Prince Norodom Sihanouk were finally looking up a bit. The Pentagon was talking less heatedly about the North Vietnamese infiltrating the south through Cambodia. Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman had wangled an invitation to visit Pnompenh in September to discuss a resumption of diplomatic relations, which Sihanouk suspended 15 months ago. A few days later, at a Washington press conference, Secretary Rusk even had a few words of gentle praise for Sihanouk, who had "done a very constructive and positive job in the development of his country...
Then came the U.S. bombings of a village along the vaguely defined Cambodian-South Vietnamese border fort night ago. The U.S. claimed the village was guerrilla-infested and in South Viet Nam. Sihanouk claimed it was peace-loving and in Cambodia, huffily suggested that the U.S. did not recognize that his country had any frontiers at all. With that, Sihanouk last week abruptly passed word that Harriman was no longer welcome. "I am 'Monsieur' Sihanouk, ethnically Cambodian, and do not exist according to the American conception," Snookie sniffed. "Therefore, it is not possible to hold talks with...
Since Cambodia's Sihanouk now offers the Reds active support, he is risking a widening of the war. If the Communist monsoon offensive is to be checked before the rains come, both trails must be severed-or at least heavily interdicted-before they join up in a ribbon of men and supplies that cannot be cut. Though there is no indication that the U.S. will cease to respect Sihanouk's phony neutrality, his policy inevitably carries with it the chance that more and more of the bullets of war will spill over into Cambodia itself...