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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, Nehru made a counterproposal of his own, suggesting to the Chinese that the proper course "would be for you to withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Letter for Chou | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Discontented Ally | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...border aggression and arrogant bluster, had finally sent him a note couched in terms of common civility. China's Premier Chou En-lai proposed that the armed forces of both nations withdraw 12½ miles from the positions they now hold, and urged an early meeting to discuss frontier problems. Such a move might be advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter is not bad." The Reds also returned ten Indian policemen captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Three Score & Ten | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract others to .the frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIUER SEN: Men and Medicine Move-ln on the Amazon | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...units were filled out by North Vietnamese. But when the Laotian government was unable to produce any North Viet Nam prisoners, the U.N. team (a Tunisian, a Japanese, an Italian and an Argentinian) was forced to conclude that it could "not clearly establish whether there were crossings of the frontier by regular troops of the Democratic Republic of [North] Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Report from Laos | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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