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...trip last month to the Middle East and South Asia, Secretary of State Foster Dulles was startled to find that India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was convinced that the U.S. really did not want a truce. Dulles persuaded Nehru that the U.S. was sincere in.its insistence on "honorable" terms. Nehru relayed his own changed opinion of U.S. intentions to Peking. From that point on, the negotiators at Panmunjom swiftly came to terms. The prisoner agreement as finally signed was, in essence, Nehru's plan...
Further safeguards against forced repatriation: the Communists would be permitted only one "explainer" for each 1,000 prisoners, and the U.N. press would be allowed to observe the "explaining." India's Prime Minister Nehru, frequently critical of the U.N. Command's actions, thought the plan splendid. Said he: "There is no reason why there should be any further differences...
...Winston Churchill said flatly that no "difference of principle" remains to be settled in the truce talks at Panmunjom, and implied that the U.S. is haggling over technicalities. India's Nehru publicly announced that the Communist eight-point proposal (TIME, May 18) is better than the U.N. Command's. A good part of the European and Asiatic world seemed to share these views...
...Germany. In fact, he asks as a preliminary to a conference some of the very actions the conference is supposed to discuss. This is a rather stubborn attitude, which disregards the fact that Russia, through its satellites, has made some significant concessions already, such as the acceptance of a Nehru inspired POW exchange...
Finally, on being assured that the medicines contained no animal matter, Bhave consented. He improved almost immediately. During his convalescence, Nehru and Prasad flew down for a visit. And his disciples carried on with Bhoomidan-yagna, collecting 33,000 acres of land. When Bhave took to the road again, the donations came in so fast that the ash ram's bookkeeping system was almost snowed under. Last week, after 110 miles of dusty tramping in Bihar, he had picked up another 365,000 acres...