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...hours, then issued a communiqué calling for a neutral Laos and declaring that newly independent nations "must be alert to any attempts to subvert their cherished freedom by means of imperialism in all its manifestations." Carefully avoided: any U.S. comment on Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea. Also diplomatically hushed up was the fact that another distinguished visitor from abroad slipped into Washington while Sukarno was on hand. The unheralded guest: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands...
...natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously absent from the festivities were his left-leaning neighbors, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Toure. The chief opposition party is heavily backed by Nkrumah, and when its leaders threatened to disrupt the freedom celebration, Sir Milton forehandedly jailed 31 of them...
...Central American Common Market is also in nominal existence. The Arab League has indicated a desire to exapnd its economic authority beyond the present provisions for boycott of Israel. Under Soviet hegemony Eastern Europe has been a 'free trade' area for over a decade. And the feeble Ghana-Guinea economic union is at least an indication of the regionalist predeliction of the young states of Africa...
...another two years to clean up. With the help of a Soviet $450 million arms loan, Nasution is building up military forces in the Moluccas, frankly aimed at adding weight to Sukarno's repeated demands for the "liberation" of what he calls West Irian-the half of New Guinea that the Dutch currently administer...
...long as such mediation leads to the complete transfer of West Irian to Indonesia," explained Foreign Minister Subandrio. The Kennedy Administration has already encouraged the Indonesians (and alarmed the Dutch) by refusing to send a U.S. representative to ceremonies last month celebrating the installation of The Netherlands New Guinea's first elected council (23 of its 28 members are natives), in an effort to show itself neutral in the controversy...