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...Nehru accepted Gandhi's policy of nonviolence and ably helped carry it out: he saw in it a magnificent and practical weapon against the British. But he would never accept the moral principle underlying nonviolence, i.e., that it is more blessed to be hit than to hit. (Nehru has been known to get off a political platform to cuff unruly listeners...
Gandhi said affectionately of Nehru: "When I am gone he will begin speaking my language." Since Gandhi's death Nehru has indeed tried to speak Gandhi's language, but he has not acted by Gandhi's faith. He says: "Protecting oneself, unfortunately, means relying on the armed forces and the like, and so we build up, where necessity arises, our defense apparatus. We cannot take the risk of not doing so, although Mahatma Gandhi would have taken the risk, no doubt, and I dare not say that he would have been wrong . . . But we are small folk...
When Moslem tribesmen, apparently with Pakistan's sanction, raided Kashmir in 1947, Nehru refused to turn the other cheek. He ordered the Indian army to move and restore order. Cried he: "Aggression of every type must be resisted." Since then, largely on legalistic grounds which add up to a stubborn "They started it," Nehru has refused all U.N. proposals to settle the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan (TIME...
Last year Nehru condemned the North Korean attack on the Korean Republic, then refused to condemn the far larger attack by Communist China. Nehru seems to feel that there is a kind of quantitative morality about war: it is all right to fight a little war to stop a little aggression, but it is wrong to fight a bigger war to stop a bigger aggression. (This is the same kind of logic that considers one atom bomb morally wrong and ten "conventional" bombs morally all right...
...Little Force, Too Little Faith. How would Gandhi have reacted to the Korean situation? He would certainly not have behaved as Nehru has. For Gandhi never turned away from evil or denied its existence. He fought evil in his own way, which was essentially to suffer rather than to inflict suffering, to die by the sword rather than to kill with the sword. Gandhi did not believe in unresisting meekness but in non-violent resistance ("A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier is not particularly nonviolent...