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...break; he remarked that Moscow would "always leave an opportunity for rapprochement and understanding." From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
...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...
...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...
SOUTHEAST ASIA The Prince & the Dragon (See Cover) It was a great party. After the French champagne and the Viennese waltzes came Bopha Devi, prima ballerina of the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Sinuous and shimmering, dressed in green and gold, she danced a ritual dance in bare feet. When she accidentally dropped her ring, a woman servant slithered across the parquet floor on her belly to pick it up lest Bopha bruise herself...
...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, of many another Asian leader sitting under the shadow of the widely hated Chinese dragon-and unsure how long the U.S. can hold the monster...