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dated December 22, 1956: Nehru flays military pacts

Prime Minister Nehru has denounced military pacts and urged the nations to rely on the protection of world opinion. Addressing the UN General Assembly on December 20, Mr. Nehru declared that the recent developments in Egypt and Hungary had shown that world opinion was a strong enough factor not to tolerate what it considered to be evil-doing. "Every country, weak or strong, will have to think twice before it does something which enrages world opinion. That is a good thing and shows the development of some kind of conscience in the world. Even a country which might be said to be indulging in wrong actions, does so because it thinks it can carry some part of world opinion with it. If it cannot, then no matter how strong it might be, it is difficult for it to do it. I feel strongly that the events in Egypt and Hungary have introduced in their own way a certain new phase in historical development. This phase must be dealt with by this august Assembly and by all countries with understanding, with sympathy, not with anger, not with the desire to humiliate anybody. The world has come to the stage where a choice has to be made pretty soon," the Prime Minister pointed out. Mr. Nehru wore his white Gandhi cap, a light brown tunic and white jodhpurs as he was accompanied on to the dais of the brightly lit Assembly Hall by Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand, the Assembly President, and Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, the Secretary-General.

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