LONDON, Dec. 12—Record of an imaginary press briefing in New Delhi by the Prime Minister's mythical foreign affairs adviser, Dr. Kishan Jha:

Gentlemen, this seems a useful time for us all to meet again. I am going to speak frankly, but you must not attribute anything said to me personally.

Lately there has been some misunderstanding of our attitude toward the United States. We have no ill feeling toward the United States. In fact, we regard her as a stanch friend of ours and certainly as one of the great democracies. Taking the Americas as a whole, the United States is one of the few countries that still hold to our system of free elections, and we value that.

Our disagreement is on a matter of principle—American policy in Indochina. We do not condemn. It is not for us to condemn, but....

Q. Dr. Jha, how can you say that the Government does not condemn the United States? Just yesterday an official talked to correspondents about American “aggression” in Vietnam.

A. Well, I think we had better avoid the word aggression. It is emotionally charged. The point is that we do not feel our views on Indochina are a condemnation of any country or a condemnation of any people. They are just an expression of the belief that problems like those of Southeast Asia should not be solved by a resort to the use of force.

Q. The Americans would probably say that the other side resorted to forte first.

A. Now sir, you know the answer to that, do you not? It is all a matter of degree, of scale. For example, in our recent unpleasantness with Pakistan we were responding to military action that had killed thousands of men, women and children and sent eleven million across our border as refugees; the actual hostilities have not produced a fraction of those casualties. But in Vietnam, whatever the guerrillas did at the beginning has been completely outbalanced by American bombing and shelling and chemicals.

But I think we should get back to basics here. Our position is that the United States, whatever the provocation it sees over there in Vietnam, was wrong when it took the decision on its own to respond with a major war. That is the way to international anarchy.

Q. Isn't it true that the American Government has repeatedly tried to find a negotiated solution, Dr. Jha?

A. There have been these diplomatic moves that you speak of, yes. But the trouble is that the Americans are so impatient, so precipitate. These things take time, and it always seemed that the United States would start bombing or take some other action at just the wrong time. Americans are such an excitable people.

I am thinking of the period in February, 1967, when Mr. Kosygin visited London and talked with Prime Minister Wilson about Vietnam. That was during a Tet holiday, a bombing pause, and Mr. Wilson pleaded with President Johnson to extend the pause so Mr. Kosygin would have time to get a response from Hanoi. But the President gave just nine hours. And there were many other occasions.

Q. That is the Johnson Administration, Dr. Jha. But since President Nixon took office the whole pattern of American policy in Indochina has changed. The troops are withdrawing, and so on. Wouldn't you agree?

A. No. Nearly as many tons of American explosive have been used in Indochina since Mr. Nixon became President as in the years before. The American soldiers are going, but the American weapons and planes are not.

In fact, gentlemen, you all know that Mr. Nixon has expanded the war into Cambodia. I have read about a report of the American General Accounting Office saying that American bombing is a major cause of the increasing casualties in Cambodia, and the huge numbers of refugees. And in Laos, too, you know that the bombing is going on.

Then there is the destruction of the land. Some American scientists who were there said recently that huge bombs and bulldozers are systematically destroying 1,000 acres a day, supposedly to remove cover for the guerrillas. They have a bomb called the Daisy Cutter with shock waves so strong that anything within three‐fifths of a mile, plant or animal, is killed.

Q. Dr. Jha, are you essentially saying that the United States is insincere about withdrawing from Vietnam?

A. You know I never comment on motives. I just will call this one quotation from President Nixon to your attention; he said it last April 7: “I can assure you tonight with confidence that American involvement in this war is coming to an end.” Do you believe that?

If we can go completely off the record, I want to say that personally I have always found Americans an endearing people, but they do have a fault. They are so sanctimonious, so holy about their mission. They lecture other people about peace, but their actions are not the same as their words.