INDIA BUYING TIME AFTER TWO DAYS OF BITTER DEBATE IN NEW DELHI'S 
LOK SABHA, THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT LAST WEEK APPROVED PRIME MINISTER NEHRU'S 
DECISION TO ACCEPT A NEUTRALIST PROPOSAL FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF INDIA'S 
HIMALAYAN BORDER DISPUTE WITH RED CHINA PROVIDED THAT THE CHINESE ALSO 
AGREE TO THE NEUTRALS' PLAN IN TOTO . UNDER THE ARRANGEMENT 
DEVISED BY THE SIX NONALIGNED NATIONS GHANA, EGYPT, INDONESIA, BURMA, CAMBODIA 
AND CEYLON AT THE COLOMBO CONFERENCE LAST DECEMBER, THE CHINESE WILL 
BE FORCED TO WITHDRAW 12F MILES FROM THE PRESENT CEASE-FIRE LINE 
IN THE NORTHWESTERN HIMALAYAS . BUT THE RESULTANT DEMILITARIZED ZONE WILL 
STILL RECOGNIZE CHINA'S PRE-INVASION CLAIM TO 14,000 SQ . MI . 
OF INDIAN TERRITORY IN LADAKH . BY HIS WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE 
ON THESE TERMS, NEHRU HOPES TO STALL THE CHINESE AT THE 
CONFERENCE TABLE UNTIL HE CAN GET MORE MILITARY AID FROM THE 
WEST . RECENTLY, NEHRU REPEATED HIS URGENT REQUEST TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY 
THAT A JOINT WESTERN AIR MISSION " GET HERE AS SOON 
AS POSSIBLE / TO STUDY PLANS FOR THE AIR DEFENSE OF 
INDIA . DUE IN NEW DELHI THIS WEEK IS A TEAM 
OF U.S ., BRITISH, CANADIAN AND AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE OFFICERS . 
FORESEEN IS THE LENGTHENING OF INDIAN RUNWAYS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 
A RADAR NETWORK SO THAT WESTERN INTERCEPTOR SQUADRONS, COMPLETE WITH PILOTS 
AND GROUND PERSONNEL, CAN MOVE INTO INDIA TO PROVIDE A PROTECTIVE 
AIR UMBRELLA OVER ITS CITIES . THE IDEA WOULD NOT QUITE 
CONSTITUTE A MILITARY ALLIANCE, BUT IT WOULD SURELY BE INDIA'S MOST 
DECISIVE STEP AWAY FROM NEUTRALISM . 