Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his stay in Moscow, Prime Minister Nehru found little cause for optimism, posed dourly with Khrushchev and Mikhail Suslov, Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, beneath a statue of Lenin. But at heart, the power struggle between the U.S. and Russia over West Berlin remained basically the same. The U.S. was still completely committed to the city's freedom and to guaranteeing access to it at all times. Russia, exploiting the fear of war, was pursuing a policy by which it hoped to drive the U.S. and the West out of Berlin by weakening the free world...
...long tended to consider foreign policy as a public-relations gimmick, forgetting that policy is a question of power. "This world opinion we pay so much attention to is largely a myth," he says. "It is true that there are a few spokesmen around who always react-Nehru, Sukarno and others-but they are just expressing an opinion, and their remarks are meant mainly for their own countries. This isn't world opinion at all; yet we act as if it were. For instance, what was the world opinion reaction to the resumption of Soviet nuclear tests...
Senior Neutralist Jawaharlal Nehru proved to be the statesman, stubbornly and persistently trying to restore some balance and perspective to the quivering delegates. "The era of classic colonialism is dead," he told them flatly. "Of course it may give us a lot of trouble yet, but essentially it is gone, it is over. Colonialism, racialism are important, but they are overshadowed by this crisis-because if war comes, all else goes." He got surprising support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
...even Nehru could bring himself to an outright condemnation of Khrushchev's new tests. Instead, the conference blandly urged that "all countries" resume the moratorium. But Nehru did succeed in getting the delegates to approve a special message addressed to both Kennedy and Khrushchev, urging immediate summit talks between the Big Two, because of the "deterioration of the international situation and the possibility of war which jeopardizes humanity...