%0 Journal Article
%T "A Personal Reflection on Norodom Sihanouk and Zhou Enlai: An Extraordinary Friendship on the Fringes of the Cold War"
%A Ambassador Julio A. Jeldres
%J Cross-Currents : East Asian History and Culture Review
%D 2012
%I University of Hawaii Press
%X I was sixteen years old when I first read about Norodom Sihanouk and Cambodia. Jacqueline Kennedy¡¯s visit to Cambodia in November 1967 had been widely reported by the press in my homeland, Chile, where her assassinated husband was greatly admired. Through Jackie Kennedy¡¯s visit to Cambodia, I became interested in Norodom Sihanouk¡¯s fascinating life, totally unaware that, years later, our paths would cross and I would become his private secretary. My Cambodian friends often tell me that it was my destiny. In 1967, I wanted to know more about Cambodia. Since there was no information available, I wrote to the Cambodian mission at the United Nations. I found it unbelievable, but four months later I received a handwritten letter back from Sihanouk himself. That began our friendship, which was first conducted through correspondence...
%K Cambodia
%K Norodom Sihanouk
%U https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-4/Jeldres