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...trouble to conceal their suspicions and their differences. While they debated whether or not to begin now or later a study to decide whether to consider drawing up a pact to protect Southeast Asia, Chou was already engaged in urging some of the prospective members (India, Burma, Indonesia) to sign non-aggression pacts with China...
...another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned that the Communists might edge too close to India. So Nehru hoped for Chinese assurances that they would...
Chou spoke Chinese), and the two men got along fine. Rumors spread persistently through New Delhi that Nehru and Chou were drafting a new "peace-for-Asia" plan, based upon a series of nonaggression pacts between Red China and Southeast Asian nations such as Burma and Indonesia. At a great state banquet Nehru and Chou spoke happily of their "traditional friendship." Said Chou: "The age when outside forces could decide at will the fate of Asia has gone forever." Said Nehru: "Destiny beckons ... I hope our two countries will stand for peace ... as they have done through the past...
Early this week Chou boarded another Indian plane for Burma, where a second rose-petal triumph awaited him beside the pagodas of Rangoon...
...truculence" toward the Communists, as if that were a sin. "We are the only ones with a policy for Indo-China." the British told newsmen. "Our policy is that we will not fight in Indo-China." They added: "The French should have done what Britain did in India and Burma right after the war. We can't go in now to make it stick. You have to have land troops, and we don't know that you would win even then...