78 SOCIAL SCIENTIST Cambodian resistance, he adds, are an integral part of the resistance forces of Indo-China as a whole. The Americans have long used Indo-China as a single battlefield . . . We,the peoples ofIndo-Ghina must also consider the whole area a single battlefield and coordinate our activities . . . Cambodia has made the greater contribution to the joint struggle than I imagined possible when I launched my call to arms on 23 March 1970. (pp 184-85) The struggle goes on. We look forward to the day when, like in Vietnam more than a year ago, the Cambodian people's war will force the GIA and its puppets inside the country to retreat. Meanwhile it is inspiring to read the story of how the left-led resistance (which started independently of and parallel to the Sihanouk forces) created a situation in which all that is best and patriotic in Cambodian society has joined the struggle against the GIA and its agents in Cambodia. It is a matter of great concern for us all that the disunity among the socialist powers has made its unfavourable impact on the struggle in Cambodia, as it has on several other struggles. The prince is bitter in his reference to the manner in which the Soviet leaders treated him on the eve of the military coup in 1970. They were prepared to render him all possible help but retreated from that position when it was found that he would be as friendly with the Chinese as with the USSR. The 'price* demanded by the Soviet leaders for their help to the Gambodian liberation movement was that it should break with the Chinese. This is probably the most tragic aspect of the whole situation, as it emerges out of the Sihanouk story of his 'War with the CIA9. E M S NAMBOODIRIPAD