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...revolutionary creed that has somehow dissolved into the cynical conformity of the society they know. Snorted a character in a short story published in Youth Magazine: "Heroism, self-sacrifice! That's what the journalists write about. But look around: what everyone's worrying about is how to grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba last year and in Pravda proclaimed: "Revolution may be grim but not, goddamit, dull...
...megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro...
...reaction of India to all of this has been curiously torpid. In his on-again, off-again role as man of peace, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has belittled the Chinese land grab. In the past, he and Defense Minister Krishna Menon have described the aggressions as "minor and petty," called the area occupied by the Chinese only "barren mountaintops where not even a blade of grass grows." Such remarks have brought angry charges against the government in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India...
Suddenly, new Chinese maps began falling like snow, extending the land grab all along the Himalayan frontier. China now claimed the southern slopes of most of the major trans-Himalayan passes so as to be able to control absolutely access routes to the North. To India's protests, Red China's Chou En-lai replied that the maps were really "old" ones that his young nation had not got around to revising. India had also been lulled in 1954 when it concluded a trade treaty with the Chinese based on the ancient Buddhist code of Panch Shila...
Morally, says McCloy, the neutrals have dissipated "their position as guardians of the world's conscience" by not reacting more strongly against Soviet resumption of nuclear tests last fall or against India's cynical grab of Goa. Practically, very few of them "have even one man, much less an adequate staff, whose whole time and preoccupation are applied to [disarmament] . . . Those who sit on the sideline and merely chant 'general and complete disarmament without putting their minds to mastering the difficulties of the problem [do not] make much of a contribution...