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...with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried the West's preoccupation with H-bombs; in another, they boasted loudly of their own recent experiments with the same weapons-never pausing to reflect that to Indians, all hydrogen is deplorable...
Ovation in the Ears. Everywhere Premier Bulganin and Communist Party Boss Khrushchev turned, they found their path carpeted, their coming heralded, their audience assembled and coached, their selling task made easier by the energetic, almost rapt ministrations of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his government. Although Indian law bars foreigners from addressing a session of the Parliament, Nehru provided one next best thing, an informal joint sitting of both houses...
...talk economic deals. Bedizened with flower garlands, they sloshed through fruit-juice and colored-water toasts; they kissed babies, rode gingerly atop lumbering elephants, released white doves, clowned in beaded hats and white Gandhi caps, allowed vermilion paste to be smeared across their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with neither bloc in the cold war; repeatedly the Russians described India as their "ally," and often they talked less like salesmen than like benign senior partners down on an inspection trip...
...Pradesh's chief minister, who also happens to be India's most enthusiastic amateur astrologer. The traveling salesmen were bound now for Bombay, where, only two days before, Communists and other left-wing labor leaders had staged a riot that killed 15 and injured 200, to protest Nehru's proposed changes in Indian state boundaries. But by the time Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived, the Reds had obligingly called off their agitators. "That your country stands firmly for peace is not questioned seriously in any quarter," was the greeting of the Bombay state governor. Said Khrushchev: "Russia does...
...only as traveling salesmen, but also as rainmakers. One member of the Bulganin-Khrushchev party brought with him a letter of instructions (from Pravda Editor Dmitri Shepilov) now being secretly circulated among the leaders of India's estimated 60,000 Communist Party members. It refers to Jawaharlal Nehru as "our unconscious ally," outlines Communist strategy for swaying Nehru close to Soviet economic and political methods, recommends that Nehru personally be praised instead of attacked, urges the Communists to use unions and technical cadres to infiltrate more deeply India's growing industries. Through these techniques, says Shepilov, the Communist...