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United States decisions to build a defensive ring around the Soviet Union have more than once been made at the risk of fanning local disputes. Last week, the National Security Council voted to extend military assistance to Pakistan, in spite of the disapproval of India's Nehru. The decision to grant arms aid comes at a particularly delicate moment; the Nehru controlled assembly in the Himalayan state of Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan, recently voted to ratify annexation by India in spite of an earlier agreement for a plebiscite. Particularly now, Nehru fears that Pakistan will turn...
...Korea, General Thimayya, who has been publicly reproved by Nehru for his independent desire to free the P.W.s, found himself reversed. Privately he told Swiss and Swedish neutrals that he had got the best compromise he could from Nehru, but in public, Good Soldier Thimayya unflinchingly accepted responsibility for Nehru's decision. "Any agreement, General?" called out one U.N. newsman, as Thimayya sludged through Panmunjom's melting snow the day Nehru's stand was announced. "No, no agreement," he replied, "just unilateral action." "By whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right...
...those around, the world who were only half-listening, Nehru "the Neutral" seemed to have completely bought the Communist position that the U.N. had no right to set the P.W.s free. Indian newspapers, which quickly respond to Nehru's notions, took up the cry that the explanation sessions had failed-not because the Chinese had stalled, but because the U.N. had indoctrinated and intimidated the P.W.s...
...What was Nehru up to, anyhow? He had provided magnetic leadership during his people's surge to independence. In the old days, he cried: "Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened ... we cannot, and shall not, be neutral." Now, enmeshed in the web of responsibility, he appears to wait for each side to take its specific stand upon cold war issues, then steers India in between...
...suggestion that got nowhere: in Allahabad, the Naga Sadhus, holiest of India's holy men, suggested that Eisenhower, Churchill, Malenkov, Mao Tse-tung and India's Prime Minister Nehru (optional at no extra cost) meet in the nude high up on the Himalayas to bring an end to the cold...