A Chinese official in Urumchi has been quoted having told some western and Japanese journalists that the Soviet Union nibbled away 1,080 sq. miles of his country’s territory along the Sinkiang border between 1972 and last year in addition to the 185 sq. miles of area which it had absorbed … Read More
One of the newly declassified U.S. documents must send shivers down the spines of even the most enthusiastic supporters of that great democracy. The document in question is a report by the chairman of the national security resources board, Mr. Symington, filed on January 11, 1951.The United States was then, … Read More
It is only proper that Mr. Nanaji Deshmukh is taken at his word. For, it is quite possible that he is disenchanted with the working of the Janata Party and wants to call it a day. Indeed, coming as he does from a very different milieu, he could not have … Read More
Apparently, the critics of the U.P. chief minister, Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav, in the state Janata legislature partyhave once again become active. Reports from Lucknow suggest that this time his patron, Mr. Charan Singh, too, may not be averse to a change. Though it is difficult to be sure about … Read More
The Congress Working Committee has taken the only decision it could in the circumstances in regard to the forthcoming municipal elections in Bombay. It could have heeded Mr. Y.B. Chavan’s opposition to the proposed electoral adjustment with the Congress (I) only at the risk of seeing the party badly mauled … Read More
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee has struck the right note regarding his proposed visit to China. The trip would be in the nature of a probing mission and “it will not be realistic to expect too much from a single visit which will take place after so many years and after … Read More
In its response to the Camp David agreement on West Asia, the Saudi Arabian government has been more than fair to President Sadat. While the Saudi statement has said that the formula does not “make absolutely clear Israel’s intention to withdraw from all Arab territories it occupies, including Jerusalem,” the … Read More
On the face of it, it may appear unduly alarmist to take the view that the West is about to revert to the Pakistan policy which Sir Olaf Caroe had so forcefully and forthrightly expounded in the late ‘forties whereby he had left Mr Nehru in no doubt that Karachi … Read More
It must be a matter of some, indeed considerable, concern that Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposed visit to China continues to be discussed exclusively in terms of India’s relations with that country. For the communist takeover in Afghanistan and the upheaval in Iran are threatening to change dramatically the security … Read More
It must be a matter of some, indeed considerable, concern that Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposed visit to China continues to be discussed exclusively in terms of India’s relations with that country. For the communist takeover in Afghanistan and the upheaval in Iran are threatening to change dramatically the security … Read More
