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Soothingly, Burma's U Nu suggested a resolution wrapping up the "five principles" of coexistence with the U.N. charter of human rights. "There is nothing in this proposal which can be opposed by anybody," said Nehru approvingly. But Pakistan's Ali insisted stubbornly: "This conference will not be realistic if it discusses only one side of colonialism and not the other." There, with a pro-Western majority confronting Neutralists Nehru, U Nu and Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, the conference deadlocked. (In the end, the conference agreed to denounce "colonialism in all its manifestations...
...JOHN KOTELAWALA, 58, Ceylon's Prime Minister, is a man Nehru tends to patronize, and others to underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour...
...implacable enemy was and is the Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who wanted him to fight Japanese instead of Communists), in the 1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were finding that the grapes were bitter, Chiang Kaishek, who himself has erred grievously in other things, both by omission and commission, clung to his hedgehog...
...young Pitt became George III's Prime Minister at 24. *Eden's elder son Simon, an R.A.F. navigator, was lost over Burma in World...
...Communists it appears, incorrect though this impression may be, that the U.S. is interfering in a Chinese civil war, by supporting and encouraging a hostile pretender one hundred miles of the Chinese coast. The leaders of Asian neutral opinion--Mr. Nehru of India, Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, and Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon--feel the same way, regarding the present U.S. policy as inconsistent and dangerous...