Word: nehru
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...shared urgency is not the same; and non-Communist Asia is divided by ancient enmities and current dislikes. Before Asia's non-Communist powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia...
...Nehru will be apprehensive. So will the British. Whitehall will get on the phone to Washington, urging the U.S. not to start World War III over a "faraway island" governed by one whom 71-year-old Clement Attlee calls "an old man [commanding] aging forces." By this time (if old patterns repeat themselves), the U.S. will be made to seem a warlike power, and Chou En-lai will step forward, ready to settle everything-if only he is given Formosa or a free seat...
Several hundred miles away, at the border of Portugal's colony of Daman, 1,000 Indian nationalists gathered. But Indian Frontier Security Police barred their way: Prime Minister Nehru had decreed that only Goans could participate in the movement for freedom. Perhaps Nehru had heard that Communists had infiltrated this crowd of Indian nationalists, hoping to set themselves up as rulers of Daman...
...Portugal's flag still flew over Goa. Earlier in the week Nehru had announced:"The Indian Army could take Goa in a trice if it wanted to. but we do not want to." Apparently, having heard from the rest of the world, Nehru decided that now was the wrong moment for swallowing...
...week's end, Nehru, so free with advice to others, got some advice for himself. In one form or another, nine nations expressed concern to India (among them the ex-colony of Brazil, supporting Mother Portugal). Typical was Britain's Foreign OSce's "earnest hope that there will be no resort to force or to methods bound to lead to the use of force...