1951.09 与尼赫鲁的谈话

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与尼赫鲁的谈话。贾瓦哈拉尔-尼赫鲁与诺曼-考辛斯的讨论
1951年9月号
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这本内容丰富的小书是印度总理和《星期六文学评论》编辑之间150分钟谈话的录音记录，它持续地充满智慧，经常具有启发性。总的来说，这是一次令人振奋的对话，因为它具有文明的语气、人性的正直和坦率的特点。人们赶紧补充说，是两个人之间的坦诚；毕竟，总理是一个强大的公众人物。例如，他对捷克斯洛伐克的命运表示悲痛，但他避免了一个似乎是不可避免的结论，即共产主义一有机会就会吞噬民主。

对于考辛斯先生关于民主、国家的作用、印度、中国、联合国的聪明问题，尼赫鲁先生以一种道德上的严肃和简单来回答，这使他成为世界上所有国会山庄中独一无二的人。总理在有关民主和个人权利的问题上显得最强势；在斯大林共产主义的问题上最弱，主要是因为他没有，或者不希望，理解自1930年以来在俄罗斯发生的革命的性质。然而，这个简短的交流是一份强有力的文件。它有助于我们了解印度的道德愿望和政治技巧，不可否认，这是与印度结盟并最终与和平结盟的前提条件。



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Talks With Nehru: A Discussion Between Jawaharlal Nehru and Norman Cousins
SEPTEMBER 1951 ISSUE
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This meaty little book, a transcript of a tape recording of 150 minutes of conversation between the Prime Minister of India and the editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, is continuously intelligent and frequently illuminating. It is a dialogue that, on the whole, is heartening because of its civilized tone, its human decency, and its candor. Candor, one hastens to add, as between two people; the Prime Minister is, after all, a powerfully public figure. For example, he expresses sorrow at the fate of Czechoslovakia but he avoids what appears to he an ineluctable conclusion that Communism will devour democracy the first, chance it gets.

To Mr. Cousins’s intelligent questions on democracy, the role of the state, India, China, the UN, Mr. Nehru replies with a moral seriousness and simplicity that establishes him as unique on all the Capitol Hills of the world. The Prime Minister appears strongest on interrogations concerning democracy and the rights of the individual; weakest on the subject of Stalinist communism, mainly because he fails, or does not wish, to understand the nature of the revolution that has taken place in Russia since 1930. Nevertheless this brief exchange s a strong document. It helps us to understand India’s moral aspirations and political techniques, undeniably a precondition for an alliance with India and, ultimately, with peace.