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•' A
light Utawlata* Vkin September 20, 1960
CHINA'S BREACH OF FAITH
»
Mr. Nehru in his
handling of (he Chineae
• ituation showed realism
and flexibility, said the
politioal weekly,'Tribune',
in an editorial on Septem-
ber 6.
The journal labels
the action of the Chinese
troops in ait u king Indian
outposts as 'pointless, self
defeating and rationally
inexplioable'.
The theme struck in
the editorial is that while
the 'crackle of Chinese
guns on India's frontiers
and ruthlesa intervention
iu Tibet' oontrast with
other aspects of China's
record, that record stands.
'And,' says the jour-
nal, 'it makes nonsense
of the patronising myth
which depiots Mr. Nehru
as a politioal innocent
who shut his eyes for
years to the brutal facts
ab nit China and is now
opening them in the nick
of time. Ai Mr. Menzies
of Australia, belatedly
discovered, Mr. Nehru is
nobody's fool. He baa
had over the past decade
and has today a far
shrewder and more long-
sighted understanding of
Chinese realities than
those who are tryiog to
teach him his business.
lie ii in no need to apo-
logise for consistently
• acting good relations
with China Nor is he
likely to abandon that
aim. Anyone who expects
India to ruth with a
ory of panic into the
South East Asia Treaty
or some similar bombas-
tic futility, is in for
disappointment'.
•The 'Tribune' gora
on to point out that in
India a 'more adult and
less hysterical view is
taken', and comments'.
'It is understood that
diverse trends are strug-
gling for the dominance
of China do less than
Russia. Restraint and
conciliation were upper-
most in Peking for a
considerable period. Now
they are in eclipse, but
the ourrent outburst of
lunacy also will pass. A
sane response is to keep
a c iol bead To maintain
contact and encourage ele-
ments on whom the hopes
of peace depend. To see
Communist orimes and
blunders for what they
are and yet romember
that coexistence and
negotiations are the only
alternative* to universal
destruction'.
Peking made it per-
fectly clear that it doea
not care much about
what outeiders, including
Indians, think about what
it is doing, says the Bri-
tish weekly journal, 'Eco-
nomist'.
Mr. Nehru's 'tough
talk' comes reluctantly
'to a man justifiably sensi-
tive about his relations
with Peking and it should
not be interpreted as a
sign of ohange in Mr.
Nehru's determination not
to get entangled in the
Chinese-'1 ibetnn affairs.
But the boldness with
which China is taking
advantage of the difficult
and. unmarked border
terrain provoked Mr.
Nehru intoremonstration'.
The ' Economist' notes
that Mr Nehru's 'spoken-
ness with China' has been
contrasted with the friend-
liness if his short meet-
ing with the Pakistan
President. -
'Without exaggera-
ting the coincidence, the
Indian Defence Ministry
has in the past paid
more attention to Kash-
mir ' than the Chinese
frontier. If the quarrel
with Pakistsn could sim-
mer down, there sre ob-
vious opportunities for a
realignment of troops.
r.
light Utawlata* Vkin September 20, 1960
CHINA'S BREACH OF FAITH
»
Mr. Nehru in his
handling of (he Chineae
• ituation showed realism
and flexibility, said the
politioal weekly,'Tribune',
in an editorial on Septem-
ber 6.
The journal labels
the action of the Chinese
troops in ait u king Indian
outposts as 'pointless, self
defeating and rationally
inexplioable'.
The theme struck in
the editorial is that while
the 'crackle of Chinese
guns on India's frontiers
and ruthlesa intervention
iu Tibet' oontrast with
other aspects of China's
record, that record stands.
'And,' says the jour-
nal, 'it makes nonsense
of the patronising myth
which depiots Mr. Nehru
as a politioal innocent
who shut his eyes for
years to the brutal facts
ab nit China and is now
opening them in the nick
of time. Ai Mr. Menzies
of Australia, belatedly
discovered, Mr. Nehru is
nobody's fool. He baa
had over the past decade
and has today a far
shrewder and more long-
sighted understanding of
Chinese realities than
those who are tryiog to
teach him his business.
lie ii in no need to apo-
logise for consistently
• acting good relations
with China Nor is he
likely to abandon that
aim. Anyone who expects
India to ruth with a
ory of panic into the
South East Asia Treaty
or some similar bombas-
tic futility, is in for
disappointment'.
•The 'Tribune' gora
on to point out that in
India a 'more adult and
less hysterical view is
taken', and comments'.
'It is understood that
diverse trends are strug-
gling for the dominance
of China do less than
Russia. Restraint and
conciliation were upper-
most in Peking for a
considerable period. Now
they are in eclipse, but
the ourrent outburst of
lunacy also will pass. A
sane response is to keep
a c iol bead To maintain
contact and encourage ele-
ments on whom the hopes
of peace depend. To see
Communist orimes and
blunders for what they
are and yet romember
that coexistence and
negotiations are the only
alternative* to universal
destruction'.
Peking made it per-
fectly clear that it doea
not care much about
what outeiders, including
Indians, think about what
it is doing, says the Bri-
tish weekly journal, 'Eco-
nomist'.
Mr. Nehru's 'tough
talk' comes reluctantly
'to a man justifiably sensi-
tive about his relations
with Peking and it should
not be interpreted as a
sign of ohange in Mr.
Nehru's determination not
to get entangled in the
Chinese-'1 ibetnn affairs.
But the boldness with
which China is taking
advantage of the difficult
and. unmarked border
terrain provoked Mr.
Nehru intoremonstration'.
The ' Economist' notes
that Mr Nehru's 'spoken-
ness with China' has been
contrasted with the friend-
liness if his short meet-
ing with the Pakistan
President. -
'Without exaggera-
ting the coincidence, the
Indian Defence Ministry
has in the past paid
more attention to Kash-
mir ' than the Chinese
frontier. If the quarrel
with Pakistsn could sim-
mer down, there sre ob-
vious opportunities for a
realignment of troops.
r.