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...that a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization could not succeed without the backing of the Asian countries of the Commonwealth, particularly India. (Snapped one observer: "If the U.S. cannot take strong action without the approval of the British Parliament, and the British cannot act without the approval of Nehru, Western policy will be immobilized.") Last week Nehru told the British his decision: he was willing to associate in an Asian defense pact if everybody else joined too. By everybody Nehru apparently meant Communist China, and perhaps Russia as well:-a plan about as useful as penning up wolves with sheep. Belatedly...
Jawaharlal Nehru...
...frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China's leadership): an Indian army buildup a few hours ride back from the frontier and an urgent appeal for "consultations" with Peking...
Last week after four months silence, Nehru's government happily announced that at last it had won a "trade pact" with Red China. The terms: India to withdraw a tiny garrison it has maintained in Tibet for years to protect Indian merchants and pilgrims; India to let Red China set up "trade missions" (with diplomatic immunity) inside India at New Delhi, Calcutta, Kalimpong; Indians to seek entry into Tibet only along six specified passes and not to seek entry at all into the "closed territory" of Sinkiang. India also for the first time recognized Tibet as an integral part...
...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...