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...faraway New Delhi, India's Prime Minister Nehru was still not ready to support the P.W.s. He suggested that their fate be "considered afresh" by the belligerents if there is no Korean Political Conference before Jan. 22, when P.W.s who do not succumb to explanations are due to go free. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles promptly reassured the P.W.s that they would indeed go free on Jan. 22, as the armistice agreement provides. Indian officers at Panmunjom guessed that Nehru was speaking "for external consumption." The P.W.s themselves trusted Nehru's autonomous agent...
Last week, leaping to conclusions from a Washington meeting between President Eisenhower and Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed (who was in the U.S. for medical treatment), India's Jawaharlal Nehru gravely warned the U.S. that a military pact with Pakistan would "have very far-reaching consequences in the whole structure of things in South Asia...
...Defenders. For the record, India is not alarmed by the Communist threat. "We are delighted," says the External Affairs Ministry, "to see our backward neighbor making so much progress." Nehru has told the Indian army not to fortify the frontier itself, so as not to provoke the Chinese. "It's bloody rotten for us that the British never feared any danger from Tibet," one Indian officer grumbled last week. "They would have fortified all the passes and we could just move in and make tea. As it is now, if we even build a blockhouse on the border...
...Nehru is perfectly willing to organize the defense of India "back there"-an hour or so from the border. He gives the Indian army remarkable autonomy in such "military matters." When Lieut. General Thimayya was in command in Kashmir, for example, he dynamited every border pass within reach without bothering to check with Nehru. And "back there" today, India's generals are quietly mustering the bulk of the Indian army in a great line of camps that ranges, arclike, from Assam to Kashmir. Travelers report that Indian "militia" are everywhere, maneuvering in the field, crowding trucks on dusty mountain...
...last week from Vienna to London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded out Russia via New Delhi, to inquire whether the Russians would be prepared to sign the Austrian peace treaty "if Austria pledged itself to complete neutrality." The reply, through India's Nehru: "Neutrality not sufficient. Molotov...