INDIA'S CHINA WAR Now, it is a question of fact whether this village or that village or this little strip of territory is on their side or on our side. Normally, wherever these are relatively petty disputes, well, it does seem rather absurd for two great countries... immediately to rush at each other's throats to decide whether two miles of territory are on this side or on that side, and especially two miles of territory in the high mountains, where nobody lives. But where national prestige and dignity is involved, it is not the two miles of territory, it is the nation's dignity and self-respect that becomes involved. And therefore this happens. Jawaharlal Nehru, Lok Sabha, September 4th, 1959 Natraj Publishers Dehradun 4 © 1970 by Neville Maxwell First Published -1970 This Edition 1997 ISPN 81-85019-67-3 Published by Mrs. Veena Arora, For Natraj Publishers, Publications Division, Dehra Dun and Printed at Gayatri Offset Press, New Delhi. 5