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Article: Fifty years ago.(Bandung Conference )(Brief article)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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The Bandung Conference [held in Indonesia in April 1955] brought the world face to face with a new force--a gathering representing more than half of the human family, living in 29 Asian-African nations, most of which were colonies or dependencies as late as 1945. That so impressive a grouping could be brought together so soon after these nations had won their independence is the most impressive aspect of Bandung.
Equally significant was the absence from Bandung of representatives of Britain, France, Germany, and Holland, the four Western powers which dominated extensive areas of Asia-Africa in 1914....
Noisy voices of discord were heard in Bandung. ...