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This event’s opening speech quoted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” and denounced a foreign diplomat who dismissed it as an “afternoon-tea meeting.” This event’s optimistic outlook is contrasted with massacres carried out against non-pribumi ten years later in a 2020 book by Vincent Bevins. Richard Wright’s memoir The Color Curtain (15[1])discusses this event, which Adam Clayton Powell attended with sponsorship from Ebony and Jet. The (*) Kashmir Princess was bombed (10[1])in an attempt to assassinate (10[1]-5[1])Zhou Enlai while he was en (10[1])route to this event. Adherence to the UN Charter and abstention from collective defense agreements were included in a 10-point charter created during this event, whose ideas would later be fleshed out by Nasser, Nehru, and Tito at the 1961 Belgrade Conference. For 10 points, Asian and African heads of state met to discuss non-alignment at what 1955 conference in Indonesia? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bandung Conference
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