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India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru is not the first man to get bogged down in the morass of pacts, protocols, aides-memoire, memorandums and verbal understandings that spell out Western rights in Berlin. Nehru is merely the latest prominent person to take a reading-and to add confusion to the crisis. Rising in New Delhi's Parliament during a foreign policy debate last week, Nehru gratuitously declared that as far as he and his experts could make it out, the East Germans were legally justified in closing their sector frontier. Raising the question of Western access rights...
...Nehru's legal experts had obviously failed to tell him the whole story. The background, to be sure, was murky and fragmented, for that was the way things were in the chaotic months when World War II ended and every day was marked by hundreds of hurried decisions that affected the peace. The U.S. approach to the potential problems of postwar Germany left the Russians in a position to stir up trouble at will. But there are no grounds for questioning the West's legal rights...
...state, 7 Premiers and a chorus of other assorted high dignitaries. It was all Tito's idea, conceived during a tour of new African nations last spring, approved by the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, and sanctified by Indonesia's Sukarno. India's Jawaharlal Nehru also gave his blessing, though at first he was afraid that a meeting of so many unaligned nations might be misinterpreted as the formation of a "third bloc." Said he: "Cooperation between countries is one thing, but political and other association for the purpose of forming a third bloc is quite...
...observed, the West may expect nothing more than one more verbal flogging for "imperialism" and colonialism, along with exhortations for everyone, especially the West, to disarm completely-and, of course, to give aid generously. Hopes for any Afro-Asian condemnation of Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe are relatively slim. Nehru, for one, tends to pass over irritating disputes as a sort of natural legacy of "the continent of hate...
Washington is anxious to see how seriously the Berlin crisis affects the conference. Nehru's temporary dismissal of the whole Western case on Berlin was both irritating and sobering. Tito not long ago declared himself in accord with Russia "on the majority of important questions.'' (Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the East bloc to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Communist East Germany...