He might have written or asked for help. I don't doubt is, knowing we were weak and we are weak country. So, next question comes, how did John F. Kennedy respond to such request?
You can tell how JFK responded by simply observing the fact that Arunachal Pradesh is still part of India, and not Chinese territory.
"Might have asked?" Nehru definitely asked for help, several times actually. Do you not have Google in your dung hut? The cowardly use of the "might have" hedge phrase demonstrates your aversion to historical facts which conflict with your personal and national prejudices.
It is beyond dispute that India was getting it's butt kicked by the Chinese, and ran to the US for help despite being "non-aligned."
As Indian defenses crumbled in the face of the Chinese assault, Prime Minister Nehru sent two highly sensitive and remarkable letters to President Kennedy.http://historyinpieces.com/nehru-jfk-sino-indian-war
On October 20, 1962, China launched a massive offensive at several points along the NEFA border and to the west in the Ladakh area of north-east Kashmir. The offensive caught the Indian government by surprise. Caught flat-footed, the Indian military forces suffered a series of local defeats and were driven back from their forward positions.
India was reeling. It had become obvious that they had no answer to China’s offensive. As the U.S. Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, put it, the Indian government “is currently in disarray.” From the Indian perspective, it was a war going badly.
The Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had written to Kennedy several times before.
But on November 19, 1962, he sent two letters, one shortly after the other, that went far beyond previous requests for help.
Asking for help was not something that was easy for Nehru to do. For one thing, India was a leader of the non-aligned movement. As such, it had assiduously avoided getting drawn overtly into either the Western or Soviet orbit of the Cold War. For another, there was the matter of personal pride.
Now please, continue to be an ingrate and heap scorn on the nation which came to your country's aid in its hour of need.
It's OK, we're used to it!
As soon as we make it safe, you start talking shit about how awful the warlike Americans are.
Maybe next time we should leave your troops to freeze or die from Chinese bullets on the McMahon line?
Nah, then we'd be no better than your nasty caste based society of superstitious monkeys...
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/the-untold-story-how-the-us-came-to-indias-aid-in-1962/20121204.htmDuring the 1962 border conflict, it was the US that came to India's rescue and there were plans to send the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier to the Bay of Bengal to support India against a possible Chinese invasion.
Many of my generation remember vividly how then American President John F Kennedy had become one of the most popular figures in India -- so much so that most paan shops, (the true barometer of public opinion in India) routinely had Kennedy's photograph alongside the familiar one of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.
The prompt and generous American response to Indian needs at the time of military reverses against the Chinese in October/November 1962, had a deep impact on the Indian psyche.
When the Indian situation became particularly desperate, US Air Force squadrons in the Philippines were alerted; through its contacts in Warsaw, the US conveyed its resolve to the Chinese to come to India's assistance.
C-130 Hercules aircraft carried out drops of arms and ammunition supplies as well as essential clothing to Indian soldiers on the battlefront.
The Chinese declared a 'unilateral cease-fire' on November 21, 1962 and announced that it would withdraw from captured territory of Arunachal Pradesh.
Nehru's handling of the crisis and panic reactions were in marked contrast to the cool and confident Kennedy. The generous and prompt response by JFK made him an icon in India.
We Americans see the pattern here. We use our nasty brutish guns to rescue some backwards country where the
citizens peasants are unarmed domesticated cattle, then afterwards they either forget or resent the people who saved them.
If the Indian gov't and culture respected/protected the right to keep and bear arms, China wouldn't be able to invade and push you guys around like so many helpless chickens. Enjoy your smug, unearned sense of superiority!
