Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-01-04
India

Several months ago felt constrained to
suggest that the neutral bloc" existed in
imagination only, and that we were witness
to ACKNOWLEDGMENT of personal power amongst
a herd of two-bit politicians representing
basically unambitious peoples. This observa-
ton, of course, caused considerable reaction
amongst the lightheaded selfannointed lib
erals amongst u.s. Current events have
caught up with them and with me.
1t is refreshing to get out of the country
now and then ito see oursils as ithers see
u.s." 1 can report here and now as gen.
eralization that our policies mystify the on
locker and therefore are not understood and
further that our official spokesman are con-
sidered naive. In these days naivete generates
neither respect nor confidence.
The most prominent exponent of our APP
parent bumbling weakness is Adlai Stevenson.
His prose won him an international following
in former years. Therefore, his appointment
to the UN. was greeted with satisfaction
abroad. But since taking office, he has re-
Vealed himself to be an elocutonst and moth.
ing more. He does not speak with authority
He has been unimaginative, vacillating and
tired. He echoes as policy the propaganda
manufactured by THE New York.Washington
Press Corps but which none outside the States
believes. He is given to muttering their
empty slogans and shibboleths. and his refuge
is one of self-righteous indignation.
This same element of our press and gov.
eminent has been busy building another
strawman for us Pandit Nehru. He has
been their shining symbol of nonviolence
and neutrality since the day they took up
their cudgels against Dulles Craftsmanship"
(recognize the shibboleth?) Yet, like our own
Stevenson, he is powerless, unctuous, and
wavering. He has been an eloquent front
man lending responsibility to mob of hoods
at home and abroad. Nehru has been neith-
er a strong leader nor a skillful politician,
yet much of our Indian policy relates to
him personally! OF the world powers only
the United States has fallen for his posturng
because we have believed our own propa-
ganda.
Nehru was groomed as a successor by
his mentor Gandhi It was assumed that he
also inherited Gandhis responsibility by as.
ISOLATION. He has been unable to develop a
successor Of his own nor is he able to con-
troll the more ambitious radicals and young
nationalist politicoes about him. He will re-
main Prime Minister, provided he survives
probable assassination, because those who
surround him can agree on no ether Upon
his demise all hell will break loose in India,
and very likely the chaos will spill over
into surrounding Mosem countries. 1t is
already assumed in certain European quar-
tiers that China and India will ultimately
reach an accord between themselves and
against the West
The latest evidence of Nehrus lack of in
ternal control is the glorious and indomnitably
courageous conquest of Goa by the Indian
Army India coveted the best port on the
western seaboard and she wanted the rich
iron ore for her own shelters. The additional
benefit was the soothing of national pride
by diverting public attention from midas
own craven withdrawal out of $4,000 square