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dated February 1, 1958: India and Pakistan

Prime Minister Nehru warned that any attempt to give atom bombs to an Asian country would completely poison the “already disturbed atmosphere” in the world, and set off a wave of stout opposition to it in the rest of Asia. Mr. Nehru, who was addressing a public meeting in New Delhi on January 30 to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary, referred to the reported proposal of the Pakistan Prime Minister at the Ankara meeting of the Baghdad Pact that America should give Pakistan atomic weapons. Referring to Pakistan, the Prime Minister said that India had tried and would try to have Pakistan’s friendship. Mr. Nehru said, “The difficulty is that the Pakistan Government is putting the reliance only on weapons and threats behind these weapons. We want to be friendly to Pakistan. However much Pakistan may have become a different country it will remain India’s neighbour. We, therefore, want to live in friendship with Pakistan.”

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