dp... My reply to you continues: Nehru's foreign policy of "non-alignment" was idealistic. With Su-Karno of Indonesia, Tito of Yugoslavia and Abdul Nasser of Egypt, he thought he would keep India out of the clutches of the USA (of whom he was very suspicious - he did not like any of the large US "corporations" or America's crusade against Communism ) and Soviet Union (he did not like Lenin and Stalin killing so many of their fellow citizens in the name of Marxism). He did his best to include China in the "non-aligned block". At the Bandung N-Align Meeting, I think, 1955 or '56, he took Chou-En-Lai by hand and spent a lot of time walking and talking with him. He wanted an "Asian solidarity" bewteen Indian and China. But, alas, his foreign policy edifice was destroyed by China's, massive, military attack in 1962. No N-Aligned country, except, perhaps, Indonesia, supported India in this dispute with China. Within two days of the Chinese attack, Nehru had to swallow his pride to ask the USA for ammunition, artillery, transport planes etcetera. Most of what he asked for President Kennedy delivered to India. But what seemed like a massive invasion of India, fizzled out when the Indian army gained their composure and began to inflict heavy casualties on the Chinese. Nehru suffered a mild stroke, within a few months. This was not publicised. But he was paralysed by a massive stroke in 1964. When the news of his death came, believe me, INDIA CRIED. We could NOT control our tears.
