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...last week events made sharply obvious what had been apparent for a long time: Panch Shila's use as the guiding force in India's China policy is, as the Indian Express put it, "dead as the dodo." Not dead but severely damaged was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's claim to a special neutralist magic in his dealings with Communism...
...China occupied 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Kashmir, has laid claim to an additional 39,000 sq. mi. along India's northern frontier. Recently the Chinese Communists established new border outposts at Nyagzu and Dambuguru in Ladakh province. The newest aggression was too much for Nehru's opposition...
...critics scored Nehru last week for his faith in the slogan Hindi Chini bhai bhai ("Indians and Chinese are brothers"), the talk of ancient cultural ties, and the fact that India and China had not been at war with each other for 1,000 years. But they pointed out that the millennium of peace was also a period during which the two countries had scant contact of any kind, knew nothing of each other, had little in common. By their dogged reliance on Panch Shila in the face of Red China's repeated aggressions, said Socialist Leader Asoka Mehta...
Himalayas in the Heart. Answering the attacks, Nehru rambled on, by turns firm and foggy. He blamed himself for misreading Red China's intentions, admitted that he had "trusted-'trusted' is perhaps not the right word-thought that the Chinese would not function as they did later." Rejecting Red China's claim to the southern slope of the Himalayas, Nehru won cheers by declaring: "The Himalayas are not only a part of our territory; they are a part of our hearts and mind...
...march of foreign dignitaries continued. After Adenauer came Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak to discuss the Congo, and India's U.N. Delegate V. K. Krishna Menon, on orders of Jawaharlal Nehru to try to persuade President Kennedy that his cold war views are not really anti-American (he failed). But despite such affairs of state, John Kennedy's Thanksgiving week was celebrated by family festivities much like those in millions of other American homes-well, almost...