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...verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another in his unsuccessful attempt to stave off the war. Today Ike has come to realize that in many areas he is his own best diplomatic agent. He regards the success of the Nehru visit as proof of this, and intends to make the most of the Eisenhower Approach during the long procession of foreign digni taries and heads of state to Washington this year. But Ike still regards Foster Dulles as his most valued foreign-policy adviser and confidant...
...record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation of most of the strategic state of Kashmir...
Four times the U.N. Security Council, by overwhelming vote, demanded a plebiscite in Kashmir. Nehru (whose family originated in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir) was well aware that in a free election the Kashmiris would almost certainly vote for Pakistan...
...Nehru paid lip service to the principle of self-determination, but, in fact, steadily tightened India's hold on Kashmir. At first India ruled the state through 6-ft. 4-in. Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Kash miri Moslem who had long been a friend of Nehru's. But in 1953. when Abdullah showed signs of objecting to Indian domination, he was thrown into jail, and remains there now without trial. So-called "peace brigades" of Indians rigidly suppressed advocates of Kashmiri independence or union with Pakistan. At Indian behest, a hand-picked Kashmiri Constituent Assembly began to draw...
...awaited the arrival of the promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have been the cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status...