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...year ago, its image in India has slightly clouded over. The change is due partly to the U.S. fiasco in Cuba, but more importantly to U.S. criticism of Indian actions: India's bull-headed demand for another unworkable nuclear test ban last October, the unsavory adventure in Goa...
...this there is much truth, but it is an irritatingly useless kind of truth, and President Kennedy should be able to tell Lord Home why: whatever the theoretically proper thing to do, the great world powers are simply not capable of acting together on issues like Goa or the Congo. The Cold War and their own conflicting interests cripple them. Thus, Lord Home's eagerness to discredit an admittedly flawed United Nations makes him forget that it is the only instrument the world has at the moment. In the Congo, it may even be succeeding in establishing peace--which...
...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
This is true enough in the case of the Indian invasion of Goa, and one can hardly question Hoffmann's sentiment...
Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...