COMPLAINT BY CAMBODIA
ATTITUDE OF BIG POWERS
(Bee. 10 p.m.) PARIS, September 16. The Cambodian Prime Minister, Mr Penn Nouth, today accused the Great Powers of duplicity because “they are pushing us to wage war to the death against- those with whom they have diplomatic relations.” In a speech, reported by the French news agency from the Cambodian capital of Pnom Pneh, he said the Great Powers “reserve to themselves the right to conclude an armistice without giving attention to the wishes of small countries which are being rushed into war.” Mr Penn Nouth said that peace in Asia did not depend on an all-out war but on improvements in the standards of living of “threatened nations* and the realisation of their urge to freeFrance and the United States appeared to be threatening, to cut off all military and economic aid from Cambodia, but “we are more interested in our independence than any aid.**
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 9
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