Why Does the World Hate America?

An Executive Director of ‘Paris-Match,’ the author discusses the fallacies of U.S. foreign policy in an article abridged from ‘Match’ of March 24

If his arrival was not clandestine the word has no meaning. The only crowd was the police, closely guarding the Palam Airport. Pandit Nehru had disdained to come, on the pretext that he was not only foreign minister but Head of State. And in the absence of an Indian foreign minister, Mr. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the great Republic of the United States, was received at New Delhi by a functionary so minor that the American press agencies were ashamed to mention him. They preferred to dwell on the fact that the Secretary of State had been gratified by a special and unusual favor—the authorization to fly over the Taj Mahal, in spite of the risk from vibrating motors to its fragile architecture.

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An Executive Director of ‘Paris-Match,’ the author discusses the fallacies of U.S. foreign policy in an article abridged from ‘Match’ of March 24

If his arrival was not clandestine the word has no meaning. The only crowd was the police, closely guarding the Palam Airport. Pandit Nehru had disdained to come, on the pretext that he was not only foreign minister but Head of State. And in the absence of an Indian foreign minister, Mr. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the great Republic of the United States, was received at New Delhi by a functionary so minor that the American press agencies were ashamed to mention him. They preferred to dwell on the fact that the Secretary of State had been gratified by a special and unusual favor—the authorization to fly over the Taj Mahal, in spite of the risk from vibrating motors to its fragile architecture.