“A talk with the Prime Minister of Thailand was very revealing. He complained that Nehru had characterised the Thai Government as corrupt [What about the financial scandals in the Nehru government?] and said the country had a ‘Coca-Cola economy’… Thailand, the Prime Minister explained to me, had a long tradition of independence, and if she had taken shelter under the U.S. umbrella it had done so to safeguard her independence. If Nehru was willing to underwrite their security [it’s another matter India could not secure itself!], the Thais would prefer to be with India since Thai culture was
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