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Indonesia, Malaya and the Philippines are "triplets who became separated at birth, who were placed under the care of different foster parents but who have now come of age and are trying to rediscover their common origin and shape their common destiny." This description of the three Malay states was offered last year by Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal. In Manila last week, the top ministers of the three nations made plans to bring the triplets together again. The event suggested that, at least for the time being, cantankerous Indonesia is getting to be a more responsible citizen in the Southeast...
...leaders were ever less likely to be chummy than Indonesia's President Sukarno and Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman...
Over the past few months, Sukarno has desperately tried to block the formation of the Tunku's Malaysian Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, which would successfully contain his expansionist ambitions. Indonesia has threatened Malaya with force, ranted that the Tunku was "round the bend." But at a surprise meeting in Tokyo last week, Sukarno and Abdul Rahman embraced each other as if they had been exchanging posies instead of brickbats...
...American soil for the readiness to help and the friendship which it has shown us immediately after the war and during the following difficult years." Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, presiding at the birth of a new nation, regretted that "with Malaysia in the offing, my presence in Malaya is very necessary." One guest who was scheduled to speak sent regrets at nearly the last moment. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, honeymooning in Venezuela, wired that he knew "those present at this dinner constitute a substantial profile of mid-twentieth century history," then added: "I feel sure that all present...
...South Viet Nam, would open up, permitting the Reds to pour arms and men into that embattled land. Control of Laos' Mekong River valley would also give the Communists a highway for subversion of neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, which in turn would increase Red pressure on Burma and Malaya...