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o THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1963 MEDFORD NAM, THWUXK, XEDTCULD, OtBGON Repercussions of Incidents On Border Being Felt Today Bv MICHAEL T. M ALLOY United Press International NEW DELHI (UPI) - Exact ly one year ago today a yell ing swarm of Communist Chi nese shock troops swept down the Thag La Kidge of the Himalayas and opened a 31- day war with India. ; The lighting was Driei, tne losses were small and stagger ing difficulties of supply limit ed the fighting to old-fashioned infantry warfare. But the political repercussions were ot in every country ir. Asia, and may well have chang ed the world balance of power. The disputed border which was the immediate reason for the conflict was hardly chang ed by the string of Chinese victories. The Reds withdrew from their conquests on the Eastern Fron tier, where tney nau scorea their biEEest successes. In the West they limited themselves to an area which had only re cently been occupied by Indi an troops and which was inde fensible anyway. Both sides have since avoid ed any serious border provo cation, and Indian i'nme Min ister Jawharlal Nehru said ear lier this month he did not ex pect any new fighting in t h e near future. Following are the major changes triggered by the con flict: The Armies The Chinese "betrayal" of Nehru's confidence set the In dians to a belated effort to build up their small and antiquated defense establishment. They accepted foreign mili tary aid for the first time, get ting commitments for $120 mil lion worth from the United Slates and $60 million worth from the British Common wealth. They also got Soviet help to ward producing their own su personic jet fighters, and Anglo American agreement for "joint air exercises" which could be easily converted into joint air defense if the Chinese attacked again. Recruiting drives were launched. The defense budget was increased to $1.7 billion. The Chinese likewise strength ened and reinforced their bor der roads and garrisons. The Cold War Despite the Communist at tack, India clung to its prized Lodge Recalled to U.S. From Viet Nam WASHINGTON (UPI) - Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge is being recalled to Washington to give the Kennedy administra tion a first-hand report on poli tical and military conditions in strife-torn South Vict Nam. One subject the administra tion will discuss wilh Lodge is how much harder the U n 1 1 e d States can and should crack down in the future on the gov ernment of President Ngo Dinh Diem to obtain reform. The Stale Department, In making the announcement Wednesday, insisted that the move did not indicate an "emergency." Officials said Lodge is supposed to return periodically to meet with policy-makers here. Ho will return for several days of consultation at the end of this month or early in November. Officials Hopeful About Wheat Sale WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S. and Soviet officials appeared optimistic today about pros pects for American wheat sales to Russia, but the nagging prob lem of shipping costs was still unresolved. The Commerce Department authorized the sale of 1.2 mil lion bushels of yellow coin, val ued at $1,929,384, to Communist Hungary Wednesday. The de partment, by custom, declined to list the name of the private American grain trader who re ceived the sale permit. Informed sources said a sec ond and even larger deal send ing corn to Hungary was pend ing in the Commerce Depart ment. An export license appli cation also has been pending for sale of about 5,000 tons of sovbean meal to Ilunparv with approval expected soon. Music Center Sets Its Grand Opening Grand opening of the Music Center, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Medford, will be attended by J. W. Anderson, Hodgers Organ Company pro duction manager. Anderson, in addition (o his managerial functions, has an ac tive role in the design of the Rodgers instruments, and Is a profesional organist. He is a member of both the Portland and San Francisco chapters of the American Guild of Organists. During the Music Center's opening, Anderson will answer questions about and demonstrate both the home and church-model organs on display in the Music Center's Arcade building show rooms. "non alignment." declining to jump into the Western camp. Nehru maintained friendly ties with both America and Russia. India likes to think its stand has lessened the tension be tween Washington and Moscow. The support of both capitals for India has put them on the same side in a major cold-war issue. When India emphasized its friendliness with the Soviet Un ion in the midst of a Chinese at tack, it forced the Russians to make a choice. The Russians, who were hav ing a running quarrel with the Chinese in any case, seem to have chosen New Delhi. They promised to help India i build a factory for supersonic jets more modern than any ; thing in China's armory. They sold a dozen MIG-21 fighters j to India as samples. The Russians and their satel j litcs also sold small arms and 1 other materiel to the Indians. Moscow agreed to the idea of 1 installing ground - to - air mis i siles to protect Indian cities. The Russians cut into Chinese military capacity by slowing up exports of badly-needed oil. Kashmir The British and the Ameri cans were disappointed in their hope that the common threat from China would lead India and Pakistan to settle their 16 year quarrel over Kashmir. In stead, Indo - Pakistani relations are worse than ever. The Pakistanis are so upset about India's new arms build up that they have drawn closer to Communist China on the old theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The In dians see this as the start of an aggressive Sino - Pakistani alliance against themselves. The Politicians India's disastrous u n p r e paredness shook the people's confidence in their government. Even Nehru, once above the storm, came in for sharp criti cism. His "political lightning rod'' who had drawn off most of the criticism before, Yankee baiting Defense Minister V. K. Krisshna Menon, was the first to go, falling on the specific issue of unpreparedness. He has very little influence today. But the chorus of criticism which began with defense is sues gradually spread to in clude taxes, prices and corrup tion, and trained itself on oth er leaders of the Congress Par ty. To still these voices and mend the party's cracked image, Neh ru fired a dozen top office hold ers, bidding them to go into the countryside and help mend that image. Menon's sympathizers in the Communist party (100,000 card carriers, several million voters) were undercut by the Chinese attack. 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