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‘Ah-Ah’: Britain and the Bandung Conference of 1955

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Nicholas Tarling
Nicholas Tarling
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The University of Auckland
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To historians of Southeast Asia, the Bandung conference of 1955 presents itself as one of the most striking international initiatives undertaken by newly-independent Indonesia. For historians of Indonesia, it marks the emphasis on foreign as against domestic policy that was associated with Sukarno's growing dominance. To biographers of Sukarno it appears to be both a strategic device in domestic politics and a farsighted perception of a shift in international relations. Internationally it was both to demonstrate the influence of India and to show its limits. Even more it was to mark some kind of success for the People's Republic of China and for Chou En-lai in developing the foreign policy line associated already with Geneva and the five principles of co-existence.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 74 - 111
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1992

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132 Telegram from Arden-Clarke 157, 28 March 1955, and note F.O. 371/116979 [D2231/165].

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151 Parkes to Dudley, 5 May 1955, F.O. 371/116984 [D2231/347].

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154 Nehru to Eden, 29 April, with PM's Personal Minute, M(E) 8/55, 2 May, F.O. 371/116984 [D2231/330].

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169 Laking to Secretary of External Affairs, Wellington, 28 April 1955, 12/6/21, F.O. 371/116984 [D2231/343].

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171 Telegram 256 Saving, 11 May 1955, F.O. 371/116985 [D2231/35O].

172 Brief, 29 April 1955, F.O. 371/116984 [D2231/329].

173 Dixon to Macmillan, 4 May 1955, 12, CO. 936/350.

174 Memorandum, 5 May 1955, and minute, 6 May, F.O. 371/116986 [D2231/368].

175 Note by Chancery, 7 May 1955, F.O. 371/116984 [D2231/345].

176 Impressions of the Bandung Conference, F.O. 371/116985 [D2231/365].

177 Draft, Assessment of the Effect of the Bandung Conference upon Anti-Colonialism in the United Nations, June 1955, CO. 936/350.

178 Minute, 20 April 1955, on BBC Monitor, 18 April, F.O. 371/116981 [D2231/251].