Word: sihanouk
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...With Cambodia's small population, the dragon to the north, their weak neighbors in surrounding southeast Asia, and the so far apparent inability of the U.S. to guarantee political stability and independence in this area, who can blame Sihanouk [April 3] for playing the opportunistic bad boy? This is only one more reason to oppose the politically expedient in our foreign policy in favor of a course designed to carry through what must inevitably entail the unpleasant, the full commitment, and the unpopular use of statesmanship...
...TIME has portrayed so well the image and the character of Prince Norodom Sihanouk as to make additional comments unnecessarily cruel to him. However, as a fellow Asian, I cannot help believing that it would add to the wisdom of the prince to make efforts to live up to the heroic meaning of his name ("lion-hearted...
Surely Prince Sihanouk would do justice to the great tradition of his illustrious ancestors, the Khmers, if he were to shelve his wondrous scheme of contriving an international guarantee for Cambodia's freedom, and take the rugged road the lionhearted should roam...
...Sided Neutralism. An international political miracle would have to be performed to keep neutralization from turning most of Southeast Asia into one major Laos-or worse. And in Laos, even Sihanouk himself admits that neutrality is "an impossible dream." The French themselves, who started out by claiming that all of Viet Nam could be neutralized, now admit that it really comes down to neutralizing South Viet Nam only. The Chinese would never permit it in the north...
...Washington last week launched a poster campaign urging Americans to support the South Viet Nam war effort and stressing the U.S. commitment there. In its way, the drive underlined the fact that, in the end, it is only in Viet Nam that a real answer can be made to Sihanouk and others who think as he does. Only there can the U.S. prove that he is wrong in believing that Red China will win in Southeast Asia-if he is wrong. Troublesome and sometimes irrational though he may be, Cambodia's Prince undoubtedly represents the feelings, spoken or unspoken...