Americans know more about Indian attitudes on foreign
affairs--which they have sometimes criticized severely--than they
do about India's internal aims and problems. Interest in India's
foreign policies has been heightened because of the recent India-
Red China border dispute.

Currently Prime Minister Nehru and other Indian foreign
affairs spokesmen reaffirm that India's policy is that of non-
alignment in the cold war. And Nehru has exercised great cau-
tion in dealing with Red China's aggression across his country's
northern frontiers. Yet it is obvious that new attitudes toward
Red China and the cold war are emerging in India. Much of
the Indian press is critical of the government's extreme caution
in responding to Red China's action.

Adequate analysis of these very recent changes in Indian
attitudes on foreign affairs is not yet available. The first article
below sets forth views on Indian foreign policy as of 1956.
Many of these attitudes and policies still persist. Next, an article
on Indian views on disarmament, followed by Nehru's statement
on his nonalignment policy made only weeks before the Tibet
crisis.

Then the Kashmir problem is dealt with as of 1957. This
was the most crucial foreign policy issue India faced before the
present attacks by Red China. But India's relations with Pakistan
are also undergoing change, not least because of Communist
pressure from the north. Recently frontier disputes between these
two nations have been settled; in addition significant progress is
now being made in resolving a dispute over the joint India-
Pakistan use of the Indus River waters on India's western border.
Some experts now believe that the Kashmir problem itself may
become less difficult to settle.

Indian-Red Chinese differences are of a wholly different scope
and directly involve New Delhi in a dispute with one of the

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