India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 |
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Page 9 - Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned ; Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them...
Page 107 - There is a vague desire to have a collective security system. But no such system can be imposed from without. It should be designed and grow from within out of a sense of common destiny and common danger.
Page 252 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 50 - In the sphere of foreign affairs India will follow an independent policy, keeping away from the power politics of groups aligned one against the other.
Page 367 - However, the Soviet Government has assured our Government that its troops went to Afghanistan at the request of the Afghan Government, a request that was first made by President Amin on 26 December 1979...
Page 63 - I have formed the opinion that if there is any chance of settling the dispute over Kashmir by agreement between India and Pakistan it now lies in partition and in some means of allocating the Valley rather than in an overall plebiscite.
Page 305 - Lip service was paid to the need for a political solution, but not a single worthwhile step was taken to bring this about.
Page 124 - The Light of Asia'. It seems to me that you might be able to do what no other human being could in giving India the lead, at least in the realm of thought, throughout Asia, with the freedom and dignity of the individual as the ideal rather than the Communist Party drill book.
Page 59 - Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader, the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people.
Page 18 - India if everything has again to be thrown into the melting pot at this critical juncture.
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Uneasy Neighbors: India, Pakistan, and US Foreign Policy Kanishkan Sathasivam No preview available - 2005 |