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dated June 25, 1957: Nehru on non-alignment

PATNA:

Prime Minister Nehru proclaimed in Stockholm on June 23 the right of every nation to follow its own path and said the problems of the present-day world “cannot be solved by the approach of threats or hatred.” Speaking at a banquet held in his honour by Sweden’s Premier, Mr. Nehru said it had always surprised him how anyone could not understand the right of a country not to align itself with one of the Power blocs because non-alignment “seems to me the natural consequence of an independent nation functioning according to its own rights. After all, alignment means being regimented to do something which you do not like and thereby giving up a certain measure of your own independent judgment and thinking.” Standing beneath the portraits of Swedish statesmen who had contributed to the consolidation of Sweden’s neutrality for over a century and a half, Mr. Nehru said, “Democracy means not regimentation or uniformity but opportunity given to individuals to develop according to their own genius.”

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