Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real understanding is a false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister Nehru and his top U.N. delegate, Krishna Menon, seem at first to be following a foreign policy that is consistently "neutral on the other side of the fence...
Indians are quick to point out that their policy is neither passive neutrality nor isolationism, but rather, they say, "non-alignment." They point out that India has played crucial roles in both the Korean and Indo-Chinese truces, which brought peace to both sides. Even Nehru has said that India never intends to be neutral on questions of right and wrong. In short, Indian foreign policy rests on mediation and settlement of issues where possible, but more importantly, on a firm stand for what India believes to be right...
...other side of the Pacific. Educated Indians are free with their criticism of what they consider America's support for British and French colonialism. Moreover, anti-American feeling is at such a height as a result of sending U.S. arms to Pakistan, that no Indian leader, even Nehru, would be politically safe in advocating now a more friendly attitude to America...
Another reason for India's aloofness--advanced by many U.S. Foreign Service officers in India--is that Nehru knows full well that the U.S. is not going to start a general war, but is not so sure about the intentions of the Soviet Union and Red China. Thus, they argue, he is pursuing a conscious policy of appeasement. Many Indians even say that their country has no choice but to come to an understanding with its powerful neighbor, Red China. Strategically separated in the north by the Himalayas--which are, incidentally, being somewhat fortified by India--only the rice fields...
...great majority of Americans are friendly and generous to a degree that you do not always find in these islands. Going around disapproving of Americans is very tiring work indeed. Their many and obvious virtues make it very uphill work." Cassandra now scorns Bevan's and Nehru's "neutralism" with the same scorn he once heaped on the U.S. He also advocates the same strong anti-Communist foreign policy that the U.S. has been advancing. Why did Cassandra change? Explains he: "When you lose your distrust and dislikes of a person, you are able to entertain his views...