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...news seemed hard to believe, but in New Delhi last week, a knowledgeable source vouched for it: India has instructed K.P.S. Menon,* its Ambassador in Moscow, to discuss the possibility of Soviet military aid for India. Pandit Nehru apparently hopes thereby to deter the U.S. from sending arms to India's mortal enemy, Pakistan...
Since the first rumors of U.S.-Pakistan talks came out of Karachi last month, Nehru and most Indians have alternated between fright and fury. President Eisenhower denied last month that U.S. arms aid for Pakistan, in return for U.S. air bases in Pakistan, is under discussion. Indians remained unconvinced. Remembering the Hindu-Moslem bloodbath of 1947, when more than 500,000 were killed, and the cold war which has gone on ever since in Kashmir, Indians believe that Pakistan wants U.S. tanks or jet bombers only for use against India. "If the U.S. gives military aid to Pakistan," warned...
...Nehru, of course. A great statesman . . . G. A. ADVANI Syracuse...
...hours last week, Vice President Richard Nixon nibbled cashew nuts and sipped tangerine juice with India's Jawaharlal Nehru. The two men, one forthright and husky, the other complex and slender, came away laughing and joking, unexpectedly impressed with each other. Nixon liked Nehru, and allowed that he now had "a much more rounded view" of India's policies. The Indians liked Nixon; Indian newspapers hailed his "free and frank manner...
...Nehru, though neutral and intending to remain so, insisted that there were merely "differences of approach" between India and the U.S., certainly "no basic chasm." Nixon agreed, praising India's belief in "freedom of speech and religion, justice under law and dedication to peace." He would tell Americans when he got home, said Nixon, that any impression that India leans towards Communism is "completely erroneous." All in all, said Jawaharlal Nehru, Nixon's five-day stay in India was "a very good thing...