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dated October 15, 1954: Ties with U.S.

The Finance Minister, Mr. C.D. Deshmukh, in an address to the India League in New York on October 13, said that "continuous undertones of irritation and misunderstanding" in the relations between India and the U.S. could become a problem the causes of which "right-thinking individuals and organisations" in both countries should do their best to remove. Giving what he called `an analysis of the problem," he said the extreme view in the U.S. that no economic aid should be given to India unless it also accepted military aid, ignored India's "basic foreign policy of strict and genuine neutrality or non-alignment in the interests of world peace. Only events can prove the correctness of the premise on which this view is based. In the U.S. there would appear to be increasing understanding of India's attitude of non-alignment, while in India, as the memory of the long nightmare of colonialism dims and political confidence matures, there are less and less who believe that the receiving of foreign aid or assistance even without apparent strings is the prelude to political subjugation."

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