All done up in Gandhi cap and grey cotton waistcoat, his legs wrapped spider-like in white churidhars, India's Jawaharlal Nehru expounded his foreign policy last week before the Upper House of Parliament. "If coexistence is not possible," said he, "then the only alternative is co-destruction." The U.S. proposal for a Southeast Asia Treaty (SEATO) was "likely to change the whole trend towards peace that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism...
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