India and US - III

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Chinese war was over by November end. Another very interesting point to be noted was that although India was theoretically non-aligned, it was practically leaning a little more towards Russia. However when this war broke out the one country that helped us was the United States. They sent planeloads of all kinds of help into Tezpur and there was some kind of understanding with India.. President Kennedy was the President of the United States at that time. Sometime in 1963, the early part of 1963 Jawaharlal Nehru sent Sudhir Ghosh to America to explain India's position etc. He went and met President Kennedy also and he showed him a passage from the Ideal of Human Unity which you can see for yourselves in the last chapter, a postscript chapter. I quote a passage from Sudhir Ghosh's book " Gandhi's Emissary:

"Since the President was so frank and warm in his replies, I shared with him Mr. Nehru's letter to me, dated 5th January 1963, on the problem posed by the military power of Communist China. The President read it slowly and carefully and ruefully remarked: "He cannot sacrifice non-alignment, eh? Are the people of India non-aligned between Communist China and the United States? I don't believe that anybody in India is non-aligned between China and the United States - except of course the Communists and their fellow travellers". Then something fell from his lips which was perhaps unintentional. He indignantly said that only a few months earlier when Mr. Nehru was overwhelmed by the power of Communist China he made a desperate appeal to him for air protection and, non-alignment or no non-alignment, the President had to respond. He added sarcastically that Mr. Nehru's conversion lasted only a few days. He was impressed by the speed with which the Prime Minister swung back to his original position with regard to the United States.

I also showed the President the last testament of Sri Aurobindo written on 11th November 1950:

"The basic significance of Mao's adventure is to advance China's frontiers right down to India and stand poised there to strike at the right moment and with right strategy, unless India precipitately declares herself on the side of Communist bloc. But to go over to Mao and Stalin in order to avert their wrath is not in any sense a saving gesture. It is a gesture spelling the utmost ruin to all our ideals and aspirations. The gesture than can save is to take a firm line with China, denounce openly her nefarious intentions, stand without reservation by the USA and make every possible arrangement consonant with our self-respect to facilitate an American intervention in our favour and what is of still greater moment, an American prevention of Mao's evil designs on India. Militarily, China is almost ten times as strong as we are, but India as the spearhead of an American defence of democracy can easily halt Mao's mechanised millions. And the hour is upon us of constituting ourselves such a spearhead and saving not only our own dear country but also South-East Asia whose bulwark we are. We must burn it into our minds that the primary motive of Mao's attack on Tibet is to threaten India as soon as possible".

There follows a brief description of Sri Aurobindo's life. He continues:

"The President read the words of Sri Aurobindo's last testament several times over and said: 'Surely there is a typing mistake here. The date must have been 1960 and not 1950'. I pointed out to the President that Sri Aurobindo passed away in December in 1950. He was somewhat shocked. 'So there you are.' Said the President. 'One great Indian showed you the path of non-alignment between China and America, and another great Indian, Aurobindo, showed you another way of survival. The choice is upto the people of India".


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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"When President Eisenhower and Mr Dulles made the military pact with Pakistan the President had said entirely on his own initiative to Mr Nehru that for every weapon he gave Pakistan he offered India three. Would Mr Nehru accept? The President had added at that time that he did not want any assurances from Mr Nehru that these weapons would not be used against Pakistan, because he knew Mr Nehru well enough to know that Mr Nehru would never do such a thing. But at that time Mr Nehru rejected the offer with contempt because the acceptance of such military equipment would do serious damage to his policy of non-alignment."

Now this offer was made neither out of love for India nor love for Pakistan but because at that time the cold war was going on and the two camps, the American camp and the Russian camp were facing each other. In those days, when the satellites and the spying system was not as highly developed as today, Pakistan was an extremely useful ally. Peshawar became the centre from where they could spy on Russia. The U2s were sent. As a result of this, the Americans created two military organisations called CEATO and SENTO where they took the responsibility of the defence of Pakistan. So, while no doubt the Russians were somewhat friendly with us, the Americans were entirely on the side of Pakistan. Thus things did not go in our favour. Anything that went to the Security Council always was in favour of Pakistan because of American support.

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