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India's predicament today is not so much the fault of Menon as it is Nehru...
...only trust that Nehru has learned his lesson well enough not to be appeased with anything short of complete recovery of all Indian territory...
...Nehru pleaded, accurately enough, that he too was responsible for India's defense policy failures. But at last he gave in. As Menon sat near by, hunched and silent, Nehru told a meeting of Congress Party M.P.s that he was accepting Menon's resignation from the Cabinet. The legislators cheered. Menon's defiant last words: "I still have a bright political future." No one believed...
Words & Action. As for Nehru, his painful education was continuing. As he rejected phony Peking suggestions of "compromise" and cease-fire that would only benefit the aggressors, he complained: "Everyone is advising us to be good and peaceful." It was the kind of advice he himself had been handing out in every international crisis created by Red aggression. He still regretted that China was not in the U.N., refused fully to equate "Communism" with China's aggression, and insisted that India was still nonaligned. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith soothingly agreed, explained that Western arms aid did not mean that...
Nevertheless, Nehru called the Chinese attack a "turning point" in the history of India, Asia and the world. When he strongly declared in Parliament that India had accepted Peking's challenge, the M.P.s cheered and pounded their desks. He denounced China as a "wholly irresponsible country that does not care about peace," an imperialist power in the 18th and 19th century tradition. He won the Indian nation with his refusal to negotiate until the last Chinese soldier left Indian soil...