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...peace and security." Its real significance is that it will help forge the first link in a defensive cordon for the Middle East's northern perimeter (TIME, Jan. 18). Throughout the treaty negotiations, the U.S. maintained an attitude of studied indifference, making sure only that India's Nehru was kept informed of what was going on, so that he could not later cry treachery...
This week Pakistan went one step farther and formally requested U.S. military aid. Nehru, who had loudly objected to such assistance to his enemy, Pakistan, had now calmed down...
...Strange Animal." Nehru had no time to lose, for in all India, the Communists are strongest in Travancore. The state boasts a 54% literacy rate-the highest in Asia outside Japan; it sends 98.8% of its children to school. It is 32% Christian. It has more doctors, engineers and teachers per capita than any other state in India. But Travancore also has the highest "educated unemployment" rate in India, and wages are low. Thousands of primary-school teachers get only $6 a month; they lean towards Communism like many other frustrated intellectuals, and indoctrinate their pupils-and through them...
...service to Gandhian ideals, and concentrate on land reform; 2) court the middle class and the Socialists. The Communists scored a notable victory when Travancore's democratic Socialists agreed to join them for this election, in the classic, naive belief "that we shall call the tune." Last week Nehru re served his heaviest fire for this united front. "It is a strange animal," said he, darkly. "I do not know what zoological name can be given it ... but there are vultures in this world who want to feed on us if we are weak and unaware...
...week's end Nehru headed back to New Delhi and international neutralism...