TEST FOR POLICY
Referendum In Cambodia PHNOMPENH (Cambodia), October 3 Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, has proposed a referendum to enable Cambodians to choose between him and his policy of neutrality and two alleged rebel leaders and “a rallying to the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation,” it was officially announced today. The International Control Commission set up to supervise the 1954 armistice in Indo-China, and foreign powers supporting the alleged rebel chiefs. Sam Sary and Son Ngoc Thanh, would be asked to supervise the referendum, according to a Government communique on the Prince’s speech Which was made at Siemreap. earlier this week.
The popular vote would be “a definite reply to the propaganda of a handful of traitors taking refuge in Saigon and Bangkok” who claimed the Prince held power “against the will of the nation,” it said.
If the people opted for Prince Sihanouk and neutrality “no nation pretending to be a friend of Cambodia would be able to continue to support the insurgents and their undertakings of sabotage and subversion,” the communique said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29017, 5 October 1959, Page 11
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