Declassified transcripts of conversations between Nixon and Kissinger highlight the US president’s views of Mrs Gandhi. “We really slobbered over the old witch,” Nixon is recorded as telling Kissinger on November 5, 1971. In December 1971 it was Kissinger once again who encouraged China to take action against India. For Indian policy makers, US support for the Pakistani military regime of General Yahya Khan was a by-product of the Cold War theology that emerged after the Second World War. Declassified transcripts of conversations between Nixon and Kissinger highlight the US president’s views of Mrs Gandhi.

Source: Indian Express December 03, 2023 02:28 UTC