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...actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned that the Communists might edge too close to India. So Nehru hoped for Chinese assurances that they would not support the Communists in neighboring Nepal and Burma; he also hoped to persuade Chou to keep the Red Viet Minh out of a "neutralized" Laos and Cambodia and seemed desperately eager to accept Communist promises...
...Historic significance!" cried the National Herald. "Momentous!" echoed the Hindustan Standard. "There may be a new chapter opening in Asian relations." Destiny Beckons. Chou drove first to the Jumna River, where he laid a big wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...
...next two days Nehru and Chou talked in secret, often with only one interpreter present (Nehru spoke English...
...Chou spoke Chinese), and the two men got along fine. Rumors spread persistently through New Delhi that Nehru and Chou were drafting a new "peace-for-Asia" plan, based upon a series of nonaggression pacts between Red China and Southeast Asian nations such as Burma and Indonesia. At a great state banquet Nehru and Chou spoke happily of their "traditional friendship." Said Chou: "The age when outside forces could decide at will the fate of Asia has gone forever." Said Nehru: "Destiny beckons ... I hope our two countries will stand for peace ... as they have done through the past...
...Chinese Victory. In this easy bargaining climate. Chou seemed to have got all he wanted for the price of a bland Communist smile. He pitched a glib appeal for the leadership of Asia on the familiar "Asia for the Asians" theme, and the Indians cheered him. Chou made no concessions to Nehru. He reassured those who worry about Communist infiltration by declaring that "revolutions cannot be exported." Perhaps Chou's greatest triumph was the size of India's welcome itself-the biggest accorded a foreigner since independence...