India After the Blow

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Visiting India for the first time after the Chinese aggression is quite an experience. To the masses, the Chinese aggression came as a real shock. They were quite unprepared for it despite the long-standing Chinese occupation of the Ladakh salient and the brazen building of a military road smack across it while Mr. Nehru desperately tried to mobilize public opinion against—Portugal! Obviously it is easier to run down a neighbor you out-number sixty to one than one who outnumbers you four to three. And since the attack on Goa was launched in order to rally the population of Northern Bombay to re-elect Krishna Menon, the sacrifice of moral prestige abroad, through the discarding of non-violence in foreign affairs, was in vain. As it turned out, Menon was no sooner re-elected than he was forced out, which doesn’t mean that his return to politics is to be discounted.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Visiting India for the first time after the Chinese aggression is quite an experience. To the masses, the Chinese aggression came as a real shock. They were quite unprepared for it despite the long-standing Chinese occupation of the Ladakh salient and the brazen building of a military road smack across it while Mr. Nehru desperately tried to mobilize public opinion against—Portugal! Obviously it is easier to run down a neighbor you out-number sixty to one than one who outnumbers you four to three. And since the attack on Goa was launched in order to rally the population of Northern Bombay to re-elect Krishna Menon, the sacrifice of moral prestige abroad, through the discarding of non-violence in foreign affairs, was in vain. As it turned out, Menon was no sooner re-elected than he was forced out, which doesn’t mean that his return to politics is to be discounted.