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...Died. Asaf Ali, 64, India's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1947-48), Moslem husband of a firebrand Hindu socialist (Aruna Asaf Ali); of a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as Indian minister...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...Even if the two titans, the United States and Soviet Russia, come to a showdown, India must try to bring about a peaceful settlement of their differences," asserted Asaf Ali, India's first ambassador to the United States, in a speech at Littauer yesterday...
...Asaf Ali was educated in Great Britain and Delhi, was jailed a total of eight years for his political activities in India, and has held both a ministry in the interim government and a seat in the central legislative assembly. The 58-year old lawyer met with a Hindustani student group after his talk...
...Foreign Policy (Sat. 7 p.m.,NBC). "Asia's New Role in World Affairs"; discussed by Chinese Ambassador V. K. Wellington Koo, Indian Ambassador M. Asaf...