AIRCRAFT DEAL
No Decision By India (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) NEW YORK. June 21. The Indian Government had not yet decided whether to buy MiG jet fighters from the Soviet Union, India's Defence Minister (Mr V. K. Krishna Menon) said in New York last night. He declared: “We have made no final decision in this matter. It will not be made either to please the Russians, the Americans—or the Patagonians. It will be' made in our own interests.”
Mr Krishna Menon was talßing to a television interviewer. David Susskind, in a two-hour Question and answer session, “Open End,” taped for telecasting in New York. Washington and other American centres next Sunday night. The Indian Defence Minister reminded his interviewer that India had bought military equipment from the United States. Britain. Belgium. and France, as well as the Soviet Union. “We are a free country and entitled to buy where we like. The fact that other people are trying to put pressure on us shows their approach is not the right one ” India did not want to be dependent on America the Soviet Union or anyone else He said: “We import horses from Poland, because there is a shortage of horses from Australia, our normal source The horses we are getting now are not Communist horses.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29855, 22 June 1962, Page 11
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