Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

I considered SEATO an aggressive military alliance directed against neighbors whose ideology I did not share but with whom Cambodia had no quarrel.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty...

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.