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...moral overtones which, Nehru claims, grow out of "Indian culture and our philosophic outlook.'' Actually, it owes as much to Nehru's rather oldfashioned, stereotyped, left-wing attitudes acquired during the '20s and '30s ("He still remembers all those New Statesmen leaders." says one bitter critic) as it does to Gandhian notions of nonviolence. Nehru has never been able to rid himself of the disastrous cliche that holds Communism to be somehow progressive and less of a threat to emergent nations than "imperialism...
Like a Buddha. Yet in its way, nonalignment paid enormous dividends. India received massive aid from both Russia and the West. Getting on India's good side became almost the most important thing in the United Nations. At intervals, the rest of the world's statesmen came to India to pay obeisance to Nehru as though to a Buddha. And Nehru obviously believed that whatever he did. in case of real need the U.S. would have to help India anyway. Meanwhile, as he saw it. the object of his foreign policy was to prevent the two great Asian...
...night of Oct. 26. President Kennedy classified it top secret. From the accounts of those who have seen it, it was an unusual document, written in short sentences, obviously at top speed, and with great emotion. It was filled with expressions of fear that events were outracing the statesmen, threatening to tumble out of control. Khrushchev literally begged Kennedy to keep things under control, promised he would do the same. He compared his struggle with Kennedy to two men pulling on a rope with a knot in the middle. The harder we pull, wrote Nikita. the tighter the knot gets...
...third Earl Russell, whose grandfather was a Victorian Prime Minister, often acts as if he had inherited the job along with the family title. Since the Cuban crisis erupted last month, Bertrand Russell (family motto: Che Sara Sara) has been cabling, writing and calling world statesmen with such vim and volubility that the government in Whitehall has had trouble getting a word in edgewise...
...most general complaints about the Alliance-that it fails to reach down to Latin America's impoverished masses-the delegates proposed that two top Latin American statesmen be chosen to work independently, and, as their imaginations dictate, to spread the Alianza's message. Favored candidates: Colombia's ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo and Brazil's ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek...