Word: nehru
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...told his countrymen and all Asians that the West is their traditional enemy, and that the conflict between Communism and the West is not their concern. Nehru has tried to persuade the U.S. that it should end the Korean war by giving in to Chinese Communist demands, including Peking's admission to U.N. In speeches, formal notes, and through his ambassadors, Nehru has tirelessly urged his proposals-and has denounced the U.S. for not accepting them. He has also helped create, in Europe and in Asia, the mood known as "neutralism...
Americans, on whose affairs and prospects the mind of Jawaharlal Nehru thus has considerable influence, would like to understand that mind...
...Moralist. In many ways Nehru is a deeply appealing figure to Americans. Some of them had a fleeting glimpse of him when he came to the U.S. in 1949 and thought him mighty civil and handsome. No other living Asian leader, with the exception of Chiang Kaishek, has fought so doggedly for his country's aspirations. He is not the kind of man who invites a slap on the back and a friendly "Hi, Pandit" (which, according to Geoffrey Gorer, a studious misinterpreter of U.S. folkways, is the only basis on which Americans really like anybody). Nehru has said...
...warm completely to his rambling style of speech and thought (he sounds at times like Eleanor Roosevelt, if she had read more philosophy). He acts as a statesman, politician and diplomat, but he often speaks as a moralist. Americans, who are far more preoccupied with moral matters than Nehru would give them credit for, are always willing to listen to a moralist...
...What is Nehru saying? That bloodshed is evil; that force is self-destructive; that love is the only real conqueror. He says there is something wrong in a world that contains both poverty and technical progress, the reality of war and the yearning for peace. He appeals to everyone who thinks that it is probably sinful to be rich, and certainly sinful to have the atom bomb. His central thesis is Gandhi's: never compromise with evil, not even for the sake of ultimate good...