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India, Rau continued, would propose to the Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea and Formosa.
Rau carefully observed that while he had not abandoned hope of a settlement, the word "hopeful" was still too strong to describe his feelings. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had advocated a seat for the Chinese Communists in the U.N., also refused to surrender hope. "I cannot believe," he said, "that the hand of friendship, extended in this spirit, would be, for long, rejected by any nation or any people."
"Revolution," Mao Tse-tung has explained, "is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly."
*Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen.