The US would not have backed France in the war against the Viet Minh in the early ‘fifties and then wrecked the Geneva agreement if its ruling elite in the country had not been possessed by a pathological hatred of communism as expressed above all by Mr. John Foster Dulles. … Read More
While it is self-evident that the Soviet leadership is anxious to convince the US administration that it will not allow communist victories in Indochina to deflect it from its policy of superpower detente, it is not easy to spell out its compulsions and calculations. This is not an altogether new … Read More
Long before the collapse of the US-backed regimes in Saigon and Pnom Penh, Mr. Alastair Buchan, former director of the Institute of Strategic Studies, London, wrote in his book appropriately titled The End Of The Postwar Era*, “There might, for instance, be virtually no American military presence….. west of Pearl … Read More
It is, on the face of it, extraordinary that at a time when communist forces have been achieving one spectacular victory after another in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Japanese officials, leading commentators and editors should be preoccupied with the negotiations with China on the proposed treaty of peace and … Read More
Nothing has happened in the bilateral relations between India and China in recent weeks to justify last week’s propaganda blast from Peking which is reminiscent of the vilification campaign it conducted against this country in the ‘sixties. The explanation for it has therefore to be sought and found in other … Read More
In the year that is just over most educated people here have, for the first time since independence, been so preoccupied with domestic problems that they have hardly cared to look out and see what has been happening in the outside world. This is only natural. The problems at home … Read More
It is highly unlikely that the CPI leaders and their friends in the Congress seriously believe that the movement led by Mr Jayaprakash Narayan is being supported in any way by the CIA. They cannot be so naive as to think the US administration either wishes to throw India into … Read More
In spite of the fairly strong language Mrs. Gandhi has used to underline her determination to resist the demand for the dissolution of the Bihar legislature to the bitter end and the stern measures she is taking to cope with the movement in that state, it is difficult to say … Read More
It is extraordinary that some people, who are unhappy with certain facets of foreign policy, should limit their criticism to Mr. Swaran Singh and spare Mrs Gandhi altogether. After all, they know full well that major policy decisions are taken by her, that she does not depend exclusively on the … Read More
It is ironical that while the Soviet Union has caught up with the United States in terms of military strength, its capacity to influence the course of developments in the third world has declined rather than increased. And, surprisingly enough, this has happened at a time when the West and … Read More
