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...DELHI, India, Nov. 16--Prime Minister Nehru turned down today the proposal by Premier Chou En-lai of Red China for an early Himalayan summit meeting to settle their border dispute. Nehru also rejected as impractical Chou's suggestion that both sides withdraw their border forces at once for a distance of 12 1/2 miles from their present position...
...over the see-no-evil policies of Jawaharlal Nehru. Socialists marched on the Prime Minister's residence to demand stronger action, and the All-India Students' Congress called for mass demonstrations this week to mark "Throw Back the Aggressors Day"; other youths sought volunteers to man a "Himalayan Border Defense Organization." In London, Indian students inquired about returning home for military conscription. Even many Indian Communists were openly criticizing China's troublemaking...
...trip's eve the U.S.S.R. hit the moon with a historic cosmic-rocket shot even though the moon would have been easier to hit. on other dates. Khrushchev violated every hallowed canon of Communist solidarity when he intervened between Communist China and India to calm down the Himalayan border crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby advertising to the world that Communism's monolith has its flaws. And his U.N. delegation acquiesced almost amiably in the decision to send a fact-finding commission to Laos...
Asked why the border was not better defended, Nehru replied that it is 2,500 miles long, remote, mountainous and scarcely accessible. What about Chinese claims to the tiny Himalayan nations of Bhutan and Sikkim? Said Nehru: "Our position is quite clear. Any aggression against Bhutan and Sikkim will be considered as aggression against India...
Even more distressing to Indians are China's covetous glances at the Himalayan buffer states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They...