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...Then he joined the U.S. Army as a private, became top man on several editions of Stars & Stripes around the Mediterranean, rose to lieutenant colonel by 1946. Soon afterward he went to India for a two-year hitch as TIME Bureau Chief in Delhi, where he got to know Kavalam Madhava Panikpar, Nehru's Red-appeasing ambassador to Peking. Later he headed our Buenos Aires Bureau, where he learned more about the traits of dictators and propagandists...
India, Rau continued, would propose to the Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea...
Their Indian friends suffered ideological shock. Disturbed and dismayed, Nehru summoned his cabinet in emergency sessions. Impatiently he cabled his ambassador in Peking, bearded Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, who is proud of resembling Nikolai Lenin and who has an unshakable belief that India can get along with Lenin's disciples. Panikkar did not answer for two days. Then he belatedly confirmed the news, lamely explaining that he had first heard of it through the papers...
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