The Indian Libertarian

Summary

This May 1, 1959 issue of The Indian Libertarian (Vol. VII No. 3), the Bombay free-economy fortnightly, is dominated by the Dalai Lama’s flight into Indian asylum and the deepening Tibet–China crisis. The lengthy editorial weighs how Nehru should handle Chinese displeasure over India’s reception of the Dalai Lama, framing it as a forced ‘choice’ between China and the West. M. A. Venkata Rao reviews land reforms in Pakistan; M. N. Tholal offers a tribute to the recently retired U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Sir Julian Huxley’s piece urges the U.N. to evolve a world population policy; and further articles cover Dahyabhai Patel’s impressions, a debate among libertarians (Labadie, Lawande and Meulen), Communist designs, and Cold War prospects. The masthead retains the slogan ‘Make English the Lingua Franca of India.‘

Essays

Editorial: Dalai Lama

The editorial centres on the Dalai Lama’s reception on Indian soil and the diplomatic crisis it has provoked with Communist China. It reports the Prime Minister’s anxiety about the ‘tone of caution’ in his Madras statement, recounts the 1951 treaty and China’s suppression of Tibetan autonomy, and argues that India can no longer maintain ‘equal friendship with both the tiger and the cow’ — it must make a choice between China and the West.

• Frames the Dalai Lama’s asylum as a turning point in India–China relations
• Reviews the 1951 treaty and China’s erosion of Tibetan autonomy
• Criticises Nehru’s reluctance to break openly with Peking
• Argues India must choose between China and the West

Land Reforms in Pakistan

By MA Venkata Rao

M. A. Venkata Rao examines land reforms in Pakistan, treating them as a positive and realisable point of contrast with Indian practice. He reads the Pakistani measures against the background of Islam’s egalitarian tradition and the country’s agrarian structure, weighing how reform is being pursued there.

• Surveys Pakistan’s land reform measures
• Reads them against Islamic egalitarian tradition
• Implicitly contrasts them with Indian land policy
• Treats reform as realisable rather than merely rhetorical

John Foster Dulles:—A Tribute

By by M. N. Tholal

M. N. Tholal’s tribute to John Foster Dulles, written on his resignation as U.S. Secretary of State, defends Dulles’s record as an architect of containment and Cold War firmness against Communist expansion. Tholal reviews how Dulles fulfilled the pledge of resisting Soviet advances and assesses his place in the contest with the Communist powers.

• A tribute occasioned by Dulles’s resignation as Secretary of State
• Defends his Cold War policy of firmness toward the Soviet bloc
• Credits him with resisting Communist expansion
• Assesses his historical standing in the Cold War

U. N. Must Evolve Population Policy

By by Sir Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Huxley argues that the world is passing through a population crisis and that the U.N. must evolve a deliberate population policy. Linking human ecology to earth resources, he warns that unchecked numbers will outstrip food and resources, and calls for regimentation of population growth through reasoned international action rather than drift.

• Declares a world population crisis requiring U.N. action
• Links population to human ecology and finite earth resources
• Warns growth will outpace food and resources
• Calls for a deliberate international population policy

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