Despite the prevalence of the language of anticolonial solidarity, Cold War splits were already evident, and delegates from South Vietnam, Pakistan and Ceylon argued that Soviet colonialism was a greater threat than the European variant. The Iraqi delegate also warned of the danger of jumping 'from the pan into the fire', declaring the new imperialism of the Soviet Union to be 'much deadlier than the old one'. The Pakistani delegate argued against being 'misled into opening our doors to a new and more insidious form of imperialism that masquerades in the guise of liberation'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 276