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Behind him the Vice President left crackling reaction to his long-distance debate with neutralism's high priest, Pandit Nehru (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manila, on the first stopover of his journey (TIME, July 16), Nixon had re-emphasized U.S. views on "the fearful risk" of neutralism and the wisdom of collective security. In London, 6,667 miles away, attending the conference of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Nehru's sensitive ears picked up a personal implication. Retorted he: Nixon-Dulles pronouncements on neutralism constituted neither a democratic nor a happy approach to good international relations...
...Very Antithesis." Informed of Nehru's comment on his arrival in Karachi, Pakistan, Nixon said: "I think if Mr. Nehru would read my speech carefully . . . [he] would find that my speech is the very antithesis of undemocratic procedures . . . My answer to Mr. Nehru would be that anyone who suggests that Communist assistance ... is not inconsistent with independence and freedom is not reading correctly the lessons of history...
...Tennessee's Estes Kefauver took the Senate floor to complain that the Nixon-Dulles policies may "drive India and the other nations of Asia who follow her lead into more open friendship with the Soviet system." Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey suggested that Nixon, in sounding off about Nehru in Karachi, had used "the wrong place to say the wrong thing at the wrong time." Although some State Department deskmen agreed that it was indelicate diplomacy to answer India's leader from the capital of his unfriendly neighbor, the Administration policymakers figured that Nixon had said substantially...
Rambling through Europe after a meeting of the British Commonwealth's odd-bedfellow Prime Ministers, India's Premier Nehru spent three days visiting Ireland, where he got a revolutionary hero's welcome, plus an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Dublin and was feelingly cited for his sympathy and help in Eire's own "struggle for independence...
Hope & Wariness. And so they talked of many things-the kind of discreet chatting so beloved by Sir Anthony Eden. They talked of Communism's new directions, hopefully on the part of Nehru, warily on the part of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (The final communiqué artfully alloyed both the hope and the wariness.) They agreed on wishing that the Formosa situation may not get out of hand. The Asian Commonwealth members wanted more trade with Communist China, and wanted the Reds in the U.N.; others for the present held back. Eden wanted the Commonwealth to share some...