Asian Socialist Conference Activities for 1954

D84475

Asian Socialist Conference Activities for 1954

English

Cambodia

7 September 1953

DC-Cam, D84474 28/04/2025

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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The following is an outline of Asian Socialist Conference activates for 1954.
1. The Secretariat will actively engage in controlling and directing political movements in Asian countries and. in certain African territories. In the next few months, concentration will be shifted from French to British and Belgian colonies.
2. A Pan-African Socialist Conference is being planned for 1954. Kwame Nkruma's Gold Coast Convention Party and the Libyan Socialist Party will sponsor this conference which is to be similar to the Asian Conference. Asians will show solidarity with the Africans by sending Burmese Defense Minister BA SWE, Sutan
Sjahrir of Indonesia, and Jai Prakash Narain of India. The object in supporting the African Socialist movement is to keep the African Socialists away from the east and west power blocs and to "explode the myth of communism's love for freedom of the colonial people".
3. Colonel Wijono of Indonesia, Secretary General of the Anti-Colonial Bureau,3
is now in Cambodia to "contact democratic freedom movements". He is also working in Laos, and plans to enter French held territories if a visa is obtainable. A group of Cambodian Socialist leaders recently contacted the Bureau through special emissaries.

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