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...Administration. Reportedly among them: 1) U.S. diplomats should behave with less reserve and do more handshaking; 2) the U.S. should make a big enough commitment in Indo-China to enable the French to achieve a military victory; 3) the U.S. should adopt a get-tough policy toward Nehru's India, particularly by ignoring Nehru's objections to U.S. military aid for Pakistan. This week the Vice
...Jubilation. In strange ways, as if the inscrutability were intended, India was behaving drastically last week. Unusual crowds, including prominent officeholders and Nehru supporters, attended functions honoring a visiting Red Chinese cultural mission. India's Communist Party came out for Universal Military Training, proving, according to one U.S. observer, that "they think they're going to get India." One grinning Communist M.P. asked an American: "What are you waiting for? We would be thankful if you would sign up with Pakistan quickly...
India must stand "more resolutely united now than ever before," Nehru told a graduating class of air-force cadets. The army should "imbibe the spirit of invincibility and steadfastness from the noble Himalayas" . . . "If the strength of Pakistan's army increases with U.S. aid . . . this will disturb without fail the entire balance of power in this region." Nehru told some 500,000 in Calcutta that he would oppose Communism if it disturbed the peace, but that the U.S.-Pakistan reports are "uppermost in the mind of every thinking Indian." Nehru fired off another bristling note to Pakistan, the Times...
Balance of Power. The U.S. State Department doubts that India would relax her cold-war neutrality any more toward Russia than toward the West. Yet Nehru seems to regard neutrality not so much as a negative attitude but as a positive balancing. The question is whether India can get arms from Russia without being sucked into the Russian orbit. "That seems a silly question to most Indians," cabled TIME Correspondent Joe David Brown. "The invariable reply is that India has accepted millions from the U.S. and has not gone to the West...
...Nehru has always envisioned India as holding the balance of power in Asia. He fears a rival to this privileged position, either one country or a bloc of countries. He has been extremely bitter about Tibet -the Chinese occupation was a Pearl Harbor to his ego. He truly fears that Pakistan will attack India if it has the slightest chance of winning. He is an India-firster to the core, and he doesn't care whether his policies benefit the rest of the world as long as they benefit India and keep her on top in Asia. Nehru truly...