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...plan of their own. Once "zonalisa-tion" (as they called it) is achieved, the new frontiers could be guaranteed by a collective-security organization like that Dulles suggested-but with one difference. All or most of the Commonwealth nations in Asia would be included, in particular India, though Nehru was unlikely to agree to any guarantee worth having...
There have been many and varied answers, some old, some recent, some true, some wrong, some regretted. From an old U.S. China hand: "A sort of Chinese Talleyrand." From a fellow-traveling Indian diplomat: "A second Nehru!" From a onetime kingpin in the Chinese Communist movement: "A Chinese Molotov." Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have called him "a reasonable Communist." General George Marshall once spoke of him with "friendship and esteem" and thought him a man of his word...
...scene: India's Upper House of Parliament. The issue: U.S. airlift of French reinforcements across Asia to Indo-China. The question from the floor: Would the U.S. Globemasters "transgress" Indian territory? Prime Minister Nehru's reply: "It has been the policy of the government for the past six years not to allow foreign troops to pass through or fly over India." There was indeed such an Indian policy, but Nehru chose to restate it in a desperate hour when his remarks would give sharp offense to the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Parliament got the point; M.P.s cheered...
...days later Nehru defined the war in Indo-China to his own satisfaction: "The conflict is in its origin and essential character a movement of resistance to colonialism." Nehru rounded off his oration by saying the U.S. threatened the peace of Southeast Asia. He had nothing to say about Red China...
...successful had the movement been that the three most popular and influential men in India gathered at Sarvodayapuri. First, there was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Second, there was Vinoba Bhave himself. Third, there was Nehru's chief political rival, tall (6 ft.) Jaya Prakash Narayan, the founder and leader of India's Socialist Party. A fascinating man about whom the rest of the world knows little. Narayan in his youth was a violent Marxist and anti-British revolutionary, and in his middle age is a man of peace and religion and a forthright antiCommunist...