Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965

In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation - a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, ''as dangerous a situation in Southeast Asia as we have seen since the war'' - was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As Americ...