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...Indian Case. Nehru often says that the destiny of Asia must depend upon the friendship of India and Red China. He attaches tremendous significance to his belief that India and Red China share common problems-poverty, overpopulation and "white" imperialism -and must tend toward one another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like...
...Indian press, taking its line from Nehru as usual, was unbounded in its glee...
...Destiny Beckons. Chou drove first to the Jumna River, where he laid a big wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...
...next two days Nehru and Chou talked in secret, often with only one interpreter present (Nehru spoke English...
Chou spoke Chinese), and the two men got along fine. Rumors spread persistently through New Delhi that Nehru and Chou were drafting a new "peace-for-Asia" plan, based upon a series of nonaggression pacts between Red China and Southeast Asian nations such as Burma and Indonesia. At a great state banquet Nehru and Chou spoke happily of their "traditional friendship." Said Chou: "The age when outside forces could decide at will the fate of Asia has gone forever." Said Nehru: "Destiny beckons ... I hope our two countries will stand for peace ... as they have done through the past...