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dated May 5, 1959: U.S. aid

Mr. M.C. Chagla, the Indian Ambassador to the United States, addressing a two-day conference on ways of assisting his country’s economic development in Washington on May 4, said that India was the battleground on which the fate of democracy would be decided. “If democracy fails in India, freedom will be the casualty over the whole of Asia and Africa”, he declared. Mr. Chagla said the United States, in co-operating more closely with India “will be fighting more effectively than if you were to give India hundreds of bombers and nuclear rockets and were to enter into the closest of military pacts.”

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