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Being Practical. Notably absent from the peace conference was Guerrilla Chief Phizo, whose ill-clad, ill-fed, weary and malaria-ridden troops were reported reduced to a mere 1,000. The agreement with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept...
...their own more or less arbitrary development targets, in all probability something will have to give under the pressures of inflation and the impatience generated because practice is not living up to promise. And perhaps the greatest danger is not that development will give, but that government by the consent of the governed will be abandoned...
Poland remains far from being, however, a democrat's paradise. Compared to a New England town meeting, it would still look almost as bad as the Soviet Union. Decisions are of course, made from the top, without approval or consent of the majority. Even though jamming of foreign broadcasts has been stopped, censorship is still very much in effect in the press and radio. Brzezinski reports that toward the end of his stay in Poland, there was a danger sign of increasing censorship, as he learned that a statement of Cardinal Wyszynski had been repressed...
...curious Kashmiri newsmen Nehru frankly explained his long avoidance of Kashmir: he had for a long time been "pained and hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact...
Colonel Sumual was officially invited only as the delegate of "North Celebes," but after the conference opened, he stated his position with blunt and studied nonchalance. Said he pointedly: "I speak for East Indonesia." Chairman Djuanda interrupted. "Have you the consent of other East Indonesian areas [i.e., the Moluccas and Bali]?" "Yes," snapped Sumual, then launched into a vigorous attack against central government corruption...