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Scorning this argument, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson strongly stated the West's case. "What is at stake is not colonialism,'' he said. "It is a bold violation of the most basic principles of the United Nations Charter. Prime Minister Nehru has often said that no right end can be served by a wrong means. The Indian tradition of nonviolence has inspired the whole world. But this act of force with which we are confronted mocks the faith of India's frequent declarations of exalted principles...
Jointly the U.S. sponsored a resolution with Britain. France and Turkey ordering an immediate ceasefire. The motion was defeated by Russia's 99th Security Council veto. Actually, neither Adlai Stevenson nor the rest of the world should have been shocked at India's resort to force. To a large extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when...
...Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had maneuvered skillfully throughout, declared himself "gratified" that Nationalist China's rights in the U.N. had been reinforced, while Russia's Valerian Zorin said he was convinced that "many nations who were compelled to vote against or abstain from this resolution will vote in favor at the next session...
...Urging. But, apparently almost overnight, Jack Kennedy had some second thoughts. Next day at Glen Ora, the rented Kennedy estate in Middleburg, Va., the President conferred with Stevenson again-and this time Kennedy strongly urged Adlai to stay at the U.N. He said Adlai would have a tough fight against Dirksen, particularly in the downstate counties; even if he won, and could wangle a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his influence as a junior Senator would still be negligible...
...President went on to say that Stevenson's performance at the U.N. was "admirable''; the U.S., he added, "needs you more" there than in the Senate. Further, said Kennedy, Stevenson would play "an expanding role" in determining U.S. foreign policy-meaning that Adlai might have more leeway in what he says, though Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk will still be in control...