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...odds with Peking. The ambassadors from Yugoslavia, a country with an old grudge against Red China, and from the United Arab Republic, whose grudge is new, both called on Nehru. Finally, Burma's Prime Minister Ne Win flew in. "General Ne Win's call," said the Hindustan Times, "signifies more than a courtesy visit. Burma, no less than India, is menaced by Chinese aggression along its border...
...saying that the two countries' differences were nothing more than "an episode in our age-old friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times: "If another Bandung Conference were held today, it would be a conference of Asian and African countries to consider common action against Han [Chinese] expansionism...
...coldly cruel about the mistakes of others that even his well-wishers frequently find him intolerable. The fact that he had apparently precipitated strife in the high command at a time when India might be facing battle with Red China set off loud demands that he be sacked. The Hindustan Times proclaimed: "Krishna Menon must go!" The Indian Express called Menon "preeminently the guilty...
...taking a strong stand at last. "China's cynical attitude toward India, combined with the hard realities of Communism at home as experienced in Kerala, is forcing on this country an 'agonizing reappraisal' of fundamentals in our foreign policy," said the Indian Express. The Hindustan Times called for a radar screen along the northern frontier...
...China has launched a virtual cold war against India." grumbled New Delhi's Hindustan Times. Nehru, of course, did not go that far. But he too complained last week that, having overrun Tibet while India kept quiet, the Reds have declared Indian currency illegal in Tibet and started a crackdown on Indian traders, even refused to recognize Indian jurisdiction over thousands of Indians resident in Tibet. ("These persons who have been residing in Tibet for long periods are, to all intents and purposes, Chinese nationals," said Peking.) The chance that the 12,396 Tibet refugees in India would...