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...final communiqué include the usual plea for Red China's admission to the U.N., the Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime Minister-designate U Nu, the air was festive because China's Chou En-lai had meanwhile agreed to visit New Delhi to discuss the Chinese-Indian border dispute. "The Indian people will overcome difficulties," shouted Khrushchev. "Let pug dogs bark while the Indian elephant marches forward...
...Asian leaders - at a remove from the unspontaneous crowds -Khrushchev cut the ground from under local Communists. The day Khrushchev spoke in Calcutta, the chief minister of West Bengal faced down the Communist opposition leader's parliamentary criticism by citing Khrushchev's praise of Indian development. In Burma, where Communists' parliamentary strength was sliced from 45 to three in last month's elections, Khrushchev passed over local Reds to praise U Nu as "a great peace fighter." And in Indonesia, the Communist boss of the country's trade unions was thrown into jail shortly after...
Though Chou conceded nothing, New Delhi optimists believe that Red China is at last concerned over its deteriorating popularity in Asia, and some thought they could guess the kind of bargain Chou hoped to strike. Red China recently settled its border dispute with Burma by abandoning its claims to Burmese territory south of the McMahon Line. Perhaps Red China would similarly confirm India's northeastern borders along the 700 miles of the watershed McMahon Line, if allowed in the northwest to keep the 9,000 square miles of Kashmir around Ladakh, where Red China has built a strategic military...
...Burma, a luxury hotel twelve miles outside Rangoon has become a white elephant because it has no air conditioning and is too far out of town for the Western travelers for whom it was designed...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). NBC gets its own cameras into action to follow Ike through Brazil and Argentina, also shows Nikita Khrushchev in India, Burma, Indonesia...