Nixon visit shouldn't have been allowed says Sihanouk

SHARP differences and the liberation movements in Indo-China have been revealed in Peking by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of the Cambodian National Liberation Front.

The Prince has attacked the Soviet decision to allow Nixon's visit to Moscow to go ahead despite the bombardment of North Vietnam and the blockade of its ports.

He told a French correspondent recently that Nixon should never have been allowed to visit Moscow.

And in an interview with Harrison E. Salisbury Sihanouk 'New York Times', slammed Soviet proposals for a new Geneva conference.

'Such meeting,' he said, 'would only provide the entr'acte [interval] for the third IndoChina war.' He said it would result in the partition of Laos into eastern and western sections, and Cambodia into a Phnom Penh region for the gover:.ment of dictator Lon Nol 'with the rest of the country in our hands'.

It would also, he said, produce three Vietnams-North Vietnam and two southern sections, one for Saigon and one for the National Liberation Front.

He said a Geneva-type conference had been proposed by the Soviet Union along with Britain and France, but that he, North Vietnam, the NLF and the Pathet Lao. were opposed to such a meeting.

His remarks are a blow for the British Communist Party, which supports the idea of a new Geneva conference, organized on similar lines to the 1954 conference which partitioned Vietnam and opened the way for US domination of the South.

In another interview. with Richard Dudman of the 'St Louis Post-Dispatch', Sihanouk said the Chinese had not opened their ports to Soviet supplies Heath backs all-Europe conference SUPPORT for the calling of a European security conference was clear in Edward Heath's luncheon speech in Copenhagen yesterday.

He said that the signature of the four-power protocol on Berlin 'opens the way for the next move on the proposed conference on European security and co-operation, and thus marks a significant step in the develop ment of East-West relations Europe' Heath called on the West European countries to go to the conference with a united and fully prepared negotiating position and be 'ready to search long and hard for solutions to the problems the conference will present.

The NATO countries have already suggested that talks should begin at ambassadorial level this year.

The Communist Party can now look to the Tories for support of their campaign European security conference, the next move on the road to 'peaceful co-existence'.

Such a conference will make the Soviet bureaucracy still more ready to accept the European Common Market as part of the deal. Gollan and Co may soon find themselves making yet another alteration of course. between the Soviet government Sihanouk ships diverted by the US blockade because they did not want the USSR to see their coastal defences.

As he himself admitted, Sihanouk was speaking as a 'good friend of China' He made no open criticism of Nixon's visit to Peking earlier this year, when the US president refused his request for a meeting.

He has good reasons for hostility to the Soviet leaders, however; the Kremiin still maintains diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol puppet regime and has yet to recognize Sihanouk's government, which controls most of Cambodia. Money split may stop market A Foreign IMPENDING entry of Britain into the Common Market has awakened latent antagonism between France and her 'partners' which had been pushed into the background since the demise of General de Gaulle.

There is now a serious possibility that the summit meeting planned for early October will not take place.

President Pompidou dropped a bombshell last week when he threatened to cancel the meeting. The French Deputy Foreign Minister followed it up by saying that the Common Market was not irreversible.

These statements represent a warning by France that she is not prepared to see the policy of the Market dictated by Britain, Germany or the United States.

The enlargement of the Common Market requires the working out of a policy on the international monetary and crisis.

There are deep disagreements between member countries on what this policy should be. The French government wants closer monetary and economic union to do battle with the dollar.

The biggest opposition to such a line comes from West Germany, which both wants to avoid an economic war with the United States and to prevent French Market: domination of the Pompidou US bombs could kill millions NORTH Vietnamese official in Paris yesterday said American planes and ships were conducting a. nearsystematic campaign against North Vietnam's dams and dykes.

le • dykes were extremely important macerta life of her everyday peacelul count ye said Nguyen Thanh Le, spokesman for Hanoi's delegation at the Paris peace talks.

he attacks are weakening the capacity of resistance of these hydraulic works and all is being done by our government and our people to consolidate them. 'If I president Nixon continues these attacks he will have to bear the consequences.' orth Vietnam has repeatedly warned that the US is bombing the dykes to create the conditions for massive flooding during the monsoon season which has now begun. Flooding of the Red River Delta as a result of the bombardment could cost millions of lives.

summit posed European political secretariat to be located in Paris, fearing that if it goes to Brussels as other members wish, it will become an instrument to oppose French influence.

A meeting between Pompidou and Brandt is scheduled for July 3 and 4.

Unless an agreement

reached then on monetary and economic union, the summit may very well be postponed, thus aggravating the crisis.