INDIA: The Patient One
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CHINESE MASSACRE INDIAN PATROL! cried the Statesman in New Delhi, and talked about severing diplomatic relations with Red China. Once again Nehru counseled patience. After all, he reminded his country, Ladakh is so remote that "no normal government functions there," and in fact it would take a massive airlift to move Indian reinforcements into so harsh and mountainous an area. It was, Nehru admitted, "unfortunate and regrettable that the Chinese should have come 40 miles into our territory and killed our people," and India had made a strong diplomatic protest.
Infinitely patient Jawaharlal Nehru has at last concluded that Communist China does not have "the same eagerness for peace" as Russia. "I consider the Soviet Union as a territorially satisfied power. I do not think they want any territory at all ... But China has not got over the first flush of its revolutionary mentality."
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