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...mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was 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...
...left behind him a new, warm memory of Panditji, the old Freedom Firster of the Gandhi days, a much better electoral prospect, and a crop of reports that he was contemplating unneutral action in the unlikely event that the Communists won. "It is a straight fight," one of his Cabinet ministers said, "and if the Communists win, we cannot allow them to rule...
...this privileged position, either one country or a bloc of countries. He has been extremely bitter about Tibet -the Chinese occupation was a Pearl Harbor to his ego. He truly fears that Pakistan will attack India if it has the slightest chance of winning. He is an India-firster to the core, and he doesn't care whether his policies benefit the rest of the world as long as they benefit India and keep her on top in Asia. Nehru truly believes that he can prevent war coming to Asia, and feels positive that he can prevent it from...
...Asia Firster. Great issues of foreign policy, as well as the narrower one of Marxolatry, were involved in the rivalry. Zhdanov and his followers seem to have sold Stalin on a Europe First policy that brought the tide of Soviet power to its maximum westward penetration: Czechoslovakia, seized in a Communist Putsch in February 1948. But in their year of victory the Zhdanovites suffered two reverses: Tito defected, the airlift saved Berlin...
...Kathleen Norris, 71, novelist and a onetime America Firster, plunked for Taft. Said she: "Most women lean toward an isolationist policy. We feel a lot more confidence in Mr. Taft keeping us out of entangling alliances than any of the other possible candidates...