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Word: ayyangar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cries In the Council. The Council (in U.N.'s apt official phrase) was "seized with" the India-Pakistan conflict. India's Minister without Portfolio, N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, accused Pakistan of arming Afghans and tribesmen of the North-West Frontier Province for their raids on the state of Kashmir (which recently joined India). His Oxford accent crackling crisply, Ayyangar appealed to the Security Council to use its "undoubted influence and power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Anniversary Week | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Security Council devised a resolution imploring both India and Pakistan "to take immediately all measures within their power . . . calculated to improve the situation." As a first step, Ayyangar and Sir Mohammed were asked to sit down together and talk things over. When the two posed for the photographers (see cut) an Indian bystander said: "They are really very good friends, you know." By week's end, tension in the two countries had abated and Gandhi ended his fast (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Anniversary Week | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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