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FOREIGN NEWS). Said the pandit: "This spontaneous gesture of friendship by the government and people of Pakistan will, I feel sure . . . help to promote and strengthen the friendly relations between Pakistan and India...
...Pandit Nehru was outraged-as always, of course, on purely moral grounds...
...pandit was annoyed at Dixon's proposal that Kashmir be partitioned and announced it was "absolutely impossible" for the government of India to accept the mediator's recommendation that the famed Vale of Kashmir, strategic heart of the state, be placed under U.N. rule for a plebiscite to determine whether its population wished to join India or Pakistan. Nehru felt no qualms over Indian military occupation of parts of a state which has a 75% Moslem population. The presence of Indian troops was justified in the pandit's eyes because in 1947 the now-Hindu Maharaja...
...before, his fists clenched and his Cambridge-smooth voice swollen with emotion, the ambivalent Pandit had spent an hour and ten minutes decrying the sins of the Western powers. Said he: "They continue to make decisions affecting vast areas of Asia without understanding the real needs and mind of the people...
Replied the New York Times, ". . . Whether we do by now understand the Asians or not, we do by now understand Communism." Which was more, apparently, than could be said of Pandit Nehru...