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...sell to the President: the Kashmir question. General Ayub tried to convince the President that India's Nehru must consent to the reopening of negotiations on the disputed land. After all, Pakistan is a U.S. ally while India is neutralist, ran the argument, so Pakistan deserves U.S. support. Ike listened carefully but was noncommittal...
...Ike left Pakistan as triumphantly as he entered. "Our discussions," declared Ayub, "have absolutely opened my eyes. It has been a matter of real education and information for us ... You are indeed a great...
...Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...
...there was evidence of Russian achievement: the road to town was Soviet built, so were a silo and a milling and baking plant, so was a housing project. (U.S. aid has gone mostly for technical-assistance projects in the back country.) In his luncheon toast to the Moslem King, Ike stressed mutual "great spiritual values" and readiness to "advance the cause of freedom." The King, too, told Ike his troubles and seemed delighted that the President could understand his urgent geographical need to stress neutrality...
Babus & Bonfires. The welcome in the dusk that same day in India, where Ike had gone to fulfill a "cherished wish" and to "do a little bit of personal discovery," was the most stupefying mob scene since the death of Gandhi. It was getting dark as Eisenhower, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad began the drive from the New Delhi airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks...