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...Spaniard last week contemplated the doings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's Prime Minister, and drew a fetching analogy. "When a torero and a toro are in the ring," explained the Spaniard, "sometimes somebody from the audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...
...proposed a deal whereby U.N. would seat the Chinese Communist delegates; the Russians, in return, would come back to the Security Council table and "discuss" the question of how to stop the Korean war. Joseph Stalin, as cagey a bull as ever pawed the sand, eagerly endorsed the Pandit's proposal. Last week, in talks with British Ambassador Sir David Kelly, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in effect suggested the same deal...
Nehru's friends reported that the Pandit was "disappointed." For the time being, at least, he put his muleta back into his pants. Nobody wanted to jail the spontaneous Pandit, but the torero would be well advised if he kept his eye on the toro and let the esponténeo stew in his own muleta...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India sent notes to Truman and Stalin last week, proposing that the Korean war be settled by admitting Communist China to the United Nations. Pandit Nehru reasoned that this would end the Russian boycott of U.N., and thus allow negotiations on Korea to begin among all the interested powers. Stalin, who knows an opening when he sees one, "welcomed Nehru's initiative in trying to restore peace in Korea," said he agreed with the Pandit that "reactivation of the Security Council should be the first step in ending the Korean dispute." "Reactivation...
...over Asia, leaders' words rang with a new sense of clear purpose. The most interesting reaction came from India. Its newspapers freely predicted that India's U.N. delegate would not vote for the U.S. resolution on Korea. Then Pandit Nehru came home from a trip to Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. For months he had been preaching "neutrality" in the struggle between Communism and the West. What he had seen in other lands, plus the U.S. action on Korea, changed his mind. He amazed his countrymen and the world by lining India up on the side...