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...their copra and sugar, rice and rubber. India, Pakistan and Burma have shown no interest in the hustle and bustle around them. Indonesia, still in the shakedown stage after its anti-Communist upheaval, is only warily beginning to participate. Cambodia stands aloof, although Premier Sihanouk, who likes to root for the winning team, has lately taken steps to bleach some of the pro-Peking coloration out of his government...
...better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath the passion and the rhetoric, these two opposing views pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have-and have not-been made by the nation's 21 million Negroes...
Director Brook explains that he is not taking sides on the morality of the war. His concern, he says, is for the Englishmen whose life is ipso facto affected by U.S. foreign policy. "Here you have the basic conflict that is at the root of all drama. The Englishman is concerned about Viet Nam - and that is a lie, because he isn't. And he's not concerned about Viet Nam - and that is a lie, because he is." How the Englishmen felt about US, however, was not quite so ambiguous. The first-night audience responded with...
...those Reds! Destroy them root and branch...
...root, as usual, was the tribal rivalry that has been tearing the nation apart all year. The men of the 5th are mostly Hausas of the Moslem North, which has been carrying on a vendetta against the thousands of Christian Ibos who have come from the Eastern Region to live. Aroused by reports that Hausas had been mistreated in the East, the soldiers surged out of their barracks to exact vengeance. They...