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Ounce of Prevention. In Manila, P.I., arrested on 24 assorted charges of robbery, Amado Manlapaz complained to Judge Bienvenido Tan: "If I had been arrested earlier, I never would have had the chance to commit so many crimes...
...right to speak for Asia was in question. "Meetings between the Prime Ministers of India and China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru...
...Directions. Increasingly petulant of late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME...
While eight nations met in Manila and signed a mutual defense pact, while Attlee and his band of traveling Laborites padded about Communist China, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sat in the wings, grumbling softly. But last week the Asian stage was clear of intruders at last, and Pandit Nehru stepped forth to tout his own magical formula for getting peace in our time...
...China: 1) mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty; 2) mutual nonaggression; 3) noninterference in each other's internal affairs; 4) equality and mutual benefit; 5) peaceful coexistence. Did not Premier Sastroamidjojo think these were far better than Manila-type alliances with white men? Sastroamidjojo certainly did. "Peace in our part of the world cannot be assured by military pacts, such as that recently concluded at Manila," he told the Indian Parliament. "There is a better way to preserve peace-by cooperation and coexistence...