Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nehru "liberates" while the rest of the world calls the action "armed aggression." Who shall this "pacifist" next "save" . . . Pakistan...
...fill that need, Peace Corps contingents so far have been sent to the new African nations of Ghana, Nigeria and Tanganyika, to the older but still struggling South American countries of Colombia and Chile, to Pakistan and neighboring India. The largest group (128) is in the Philippines, the smallest (15) on the tiny, pear-shaped West Indian island of St. Lucia...
...world should have been shocked at India's resort to force. To a large extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured...
Another emergent problem may involve Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute. By indicating that a refusal to negotiate is an excuse for military action, Nehru has handed the Pakistanis a perfect argument to resolve the Kashmir problem; like Portugal's Salazar, Nehru has refused to confer on Pakistan's right to the mountainous northern Indian province. But most importantly, Nehru and India will find it now impossible to preach nonviolence and compromise at any cost to the rest of the world...
Menon is a leader of the U.N. at tack on "imperialism," but the mere hint of self-determination for the disputed northern Indian province of Kashmir, which is claimed by Pakistan, brings forth a geyser of indignant oratory. In January 1957 he defended India's right to Kashmir with the longest speech in U.N. history-7 hr. 48 min. Blithely Menon also ignores Russia's satellite colonialism. Questioned about East Germany's fetters, he answered: "Self-determination can't be applied in such a way as to be impractical." Indian critics say that in his post...