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...statue was carved 50 years ago by a Mexican sculptor as one of ten giant figures of lawmakers to adorn the new home of the first Appellate Department of the New York court system, overlooking Manhattan's Madison Square. The other nine were Moses, Hindustan's Manu, Persia's Zoroaster, Sparta's Lycurgus, Athens' Solon, China's Confucius, Byzantium's Justinian, Wessex' Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express...
...week's end some of India's usually neutralist newspapers were drawing an editorial conclusion they would have damned as U.S. propaganda not seven days before. "There is no prospect," said the Hindustan Times, "of India, Burma and Indonesia wanting to swing over to China." And the influential Times of India seemed to be writing an epitaph over Nehru's dream of a protected Area of Peace when it acknowledged that "it would be something unusual for Communist China to reject the traditional Communist pattern of expansion...
...Historic significance!" cried the National Herald. "Momentous!" echoed the Hindustan Standard. "There may be a new chapter opening in Asian relations." Destiny Beckons. Chou drove first to the Jumna River, where he laid a big wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...
...each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...
President Eisenhower's dramatic proposals for a worldwide atomic-energy pool last week drew praise not only from friends, but from not always friendly critics. EISENHOWER PLAN MAY PREVENT WAR, said the headline in New Delhi's influential Hindustan Times. Wrote Paris' neutralist Le Monde: "Ike speaks the language which can and must be used by sensible men of whatever camp...