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...Washington National Airport this week, an ear-tingling ig-gun salute heralded the arrival of the man who fitfully straddles the chasm between the Soviet's open cynicism and the Western world's open hand. Jawaharlal Nehru, idolized leader of India's millions and to many minds the spokesman for the yearnings (as well as fiery passions) of most Asians and Africans, had come at Dwight Eisenbower's invitation for his first visit to the U.S. since...
Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
What was there to talk about? At nearly every stop in the 8,000-mile route from New Delhi to Washington, Nehru had been willing to hint at what was on his mind, e.g., bad relations between the U.S. and Peking, India's economic needs, mistrust of the U.S.-endorsed Baghdad Pact, the Suez Canal, colonialism...
...Nehru's visit had originally been planned for last summer but was postponed because of Ike's ileitis operation. Many a Washingtonian thought the new timing a good thing. For Nehru, who in the past has been tempted to juggle a diplomatic double standard of conduct, has come to Washington with the refreshed understanding that U.S. policy countenances no double standard...
Basically what could result from these Nehru-Ike conversations is a new attitude toward neutralism on the part of this country, and a new attitude toward the U.S. on the part of India. India will have to realize that her attempt to be a neutral bridge between two forces depends upon India's understanding of the nature of the opposition between those two forces. And similarly, the United States will have to realize that just because India is not 100 percent for us, she is not 100 percent against us, and her role in trying to bridge the Soviet-American...