Eisenhower & Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action and the Origins of the Second Indochina War by William J. Rust.

This, as Rust points out, served domestic purposes, as "[p]oliticians on the left and right unanimously endorsed Sihanouk's policy of neutrality" (p. 111). The Eisenhower administration was unimpressed with Sihanouk's "indifference to the global ideological struggle between the "communist bloc" and the "free world" (p. 4). Eisenhower & Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action and the Origins of the Second Indochina War In 1957, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk fled to a monastery near Angkor Wat to become a monk. [Extracted from the article]