Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is Nehru saying? That bloodshed is evil; that force is self-destructive; that love is the only real conqueror. He says there is something wrong in a world that contains both poverty and technical progress, the reality of war and the yearning for peace. He appeals to everyone who...
Fearing a profitless stalemate, he proposed then the only course which seemed logical to him: that the opposing generals meet in the field and arrange a ceasefire. He would put aside such "extraneous matters" as Formosa and Red China's claim to a seat in U.N., leave fundamental "political...
"Within the area of my authority as military commander . . . I stand ready at any time to confer in the field with the commander in chief of the enemy forces, in an earnest effort to find any military means whereby the realization of the political objectives of the United Nations in...
In Korea, the U.S. and its allies were up against an implacable and callous will, which shocked even the old Asiatic campaigner, Douglas MacArthur. "That they should continue this savage slaughter despite an almost hopeless chance of ultimate military success . . . displays a complete contempt for the sanctity of human life...
An Indian wit once described Jawaharlal Nehru as "a constantly expanding bundle of contradictions." Nehru is an aristocratic Brahman who turned Socialist, a fervent Asian nationalist who went to Cambridge and drank thirstily if not deeply of Western culture, a devout disciple of Gandhi's nonviolence who more than...