The governments Tibet policy was strongly attacked in Paliament, and Vallabhai Patel, deputy Prime Minister and Nehrus great rival, wrote him a long, critical letter in November 1950. Patel implied that Parrikkar, the Indian Ambassador in Peking, had had the wool pulled over his eye by the Chinese, whom he accused of perfidy and malevolence and described as potential enemy. He warned that Chinas move into Tibet throws into the melting pot all frontier and commercial settlements with Tibet, on which we have been functioning and acting during the last half a century. Implicitly accusing Nehru of complacency and vacillation, Patel proposed a fundamental re-appraisal of China policy, including redeployment of Indias force to guard areas likely to be the subject of dispute. Nehrus reply to this letter has not been published, but...he (Nehru) maintained his policy of friendship to China, continuing to champion her cause in the United Nations... Indias China War (Page 72-73) by Neville Maxwell (an Australian journalist who wrote an acclaimed book on the war, referred to in the attached article.)
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