1962 COLOMBO CONFERENCE CALLED "FAILURE" BY SIHANOUK
Colombo, Sept. 22 -- The Colombo Powers' Conference held in Colombo in December 1962 to effect a negotiated settlement between India and Communist China of their dispute over Himalayan border territories was a "complete failure." So said Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who passed through Colombo today en route to Red China, the Soviet Union, North Korea and Eastern Europe.