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Radio and Television Commentator IT IS GOOD, it is encouraging to hear that our Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles has had three friendly, constructive, and high profitable meetings with India's Prime Minister Nehru. If Mr. Dulles should bungle every other undertaking, but make some headway in establishing lasting friendly relations with the Indians, the Pakistani, and the other peoples of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia then he would deserve the greatest honors we might bestow upon him. Not that Mr. Dulles, Mr. Stassen, and Mr. Nehru have come to complete agreement on every outstanding issue between this country and India, not at all. But Mr. Dulles indicated that he is convinced India's sympathies lie with the West, with the democracies and the free world; but that the differences involve formulas, approaches, and programs intended to accomplish identical results. There is one difference of opinion, which in turn commands a difference of ap proach, and which may well be fundamental and very basic. Mr. Nehru and his associates in the Indian government are convinced that the Communist government of China is much more independent of Moscow than Mr. Dulles is willing to concede. As a matter of fact, there is now developing quite a considerable backlog of statement and literature on this point, some of it by some gentlemen who should know what they are talking about. Some of this literature is by Nehru and by Indian representatives in Peiping, and much of it comes from Tito of Yugoslavia. There is another thing about India's policy which might cause us to pause for a moment and THINK rather than just FEEL. Many of us have bitterly castigated India for recognizing the Peiping government of China. Mr. Nehru has said repeatedly that India takes the fundamental British attitude as recognition of a foreign government-namely, that recognition in no way implies approval. concerns But here is Nehru, who has had an ambassador in Peiping for several years. There is some evidence to suggest that the Indian representative has been taken into Mao's and Chou's confidences more than anyone else as Peiping attempts to woo the Indians. Therefore, Nehru must have had some interesting things to relate to our Secretary of State-some things which we might learn in no other way. This, of course, is the strong argument of the British,-that they are maintaining a window, as it were, through the "bamboo curtain." Mr. Stassen also had some earnest conversations with Indian officials in New Delhi. The Indians are quite candid in declaring that they need and want more American economic aid. At the present we are supplying India with 50 million dollars worth of economic aid per year. Retiring Ambassador to India, Chester Bowles, says that figure should be boosted to 200 million 4 times the present amount. Bowles says that our 200 million dollar loans wouldn't have to continue very long-that India's projected five-year-plan can make the country self-sustaining before too long. As it stands now, India faces a deficit of about 1 billion two hundred million dollars for her projected fiveyear-plan. However, it is felt that not all of that deficit will have to be made up by outside borrowing. The only alternative, say the Indians, is to coin more money and thus start a spiral inflation which could be disastrous. Certainly it should be very clear to us by this time that our relationships with India are tremendously important. Suppose it is agreed that people, resources, strategic location are important. India has all of these. With 326 million people, tremendous remost of them unsources, tapped and even unexplored, and located midway on the southern perimeter of the largest continent, India could not be ignored even if we wished to. She has a historical and cultural heritage to an incredible degree, a traditional individual pride and a developing national feeling. And among her mil one lions are leaders, past and present, who have dominated the international stage in the past and will in the future. No can deny, for instance, that Nehru is the outstanding man of Southeastern Asia any more than that Gandhi was the great Asian figure of his time. So it becomes clear that India is important to us. She must be on our side. Great civilization has a pattern of flowing in an East-West direction and certainly the logical place for it to flower next is India. But by the same token it becomes clear that our relationship with India does not depend very much on military strength; rather our relationships with that country are in the economic, political, and moral fields. Supreme Court Justice Douglas says we have lost much of our once commanding moral position-that we have lost it because as seen from abroad we seem to be confused, alarmed, frightened, lacking in self-confidence in each other, and are increasingly in |