In the modern international history of the Far East tremendous importance has been attributed to Indian thought and action. This has been because in the struggle in Asia between East and West India remains uncommitted and her potentialities are not fully revealed. Strategically the sub-continent is so situated that it cannot be ignored in any major problem of international relations. India is looked upon as being the one country which can provide a bridge between East and West in the struggle to achieve a new basis for understanding in the Asian area. Mr. Nehru is regarded as the leader of an attempt to build, if not a third force, at least a group of powers not aligned with either East or West, and it is within the nation he leads that the success or failure of the democratic method of solving Asia’s problems will be determined.