DIPLOMACY: Accentuating the Negative

For India's Jawaharlal Nehru and his doctrine of active neutrality, the week started off brightly indeed. Fresh from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting in London, Nehru moved triumphantly across Europe in what at times resembled a royal progress, wearing his familiar brown tunic, white churidar trousers and the inevitable red rose. Consulted at every turn with much the mixture of deference and bewilderment once accorded the Delphic oracle, the Indian Prime Minister reacted with a purr of self-satisfaction so audible that in Hamburg (where he accepted two honorary degrees) he felt...

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