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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the Congressmen who obediently voted for Nehru's resolutions insisted privately that they were against them. The Times of India labeled the plan a "distribution of poverty," and Frank Moraes, well-known editor of the Indian Express, called it "a cowardly alibi for collectivism." Critics raised the specter of farm collectives and feared India was headed toward the "communes" of Red China. Nehru at first railed at these "phantom fears," then grew more bitter, finally snapped: "Well, if it comes to Communism...
...Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
...annals of royal touring, and it began the very moment Princess Margaret alighted from her plane at the airport. There, the lively Portuguese-gate crashers, airport mechanics and charwomen as well as invited guests -crowded around Margaret in a most un-British manner. According to London's Sunday Express, Margaret was MOBBED IN AIRPORT BATTLE, while a "grim-faced" Ambassador Sir Charles Stirling looked helplessly on. From then on, the British embassy and Portugal's Police Inspector José Passo were determined that the princess and the Portuguese should never get that close again...
...visitors in 1959, but now the total seems headed for 15,000. Not only is Russia "the place to go" for thousands of seasoned tourists, but this summer's U.S. exhibition in Moscow is proving a strong drawing card. So great is the influx that American Express alone had a backlog of 200 visa applications last week. The once-formidable Soviet tourist restrictions have been cut so much that almost anyone, unless he has been involved in a well-publicized anti-Communist incident, can get a visa within a week or ten days...
...Boat & Plane. Ankudinov has done his best to make travel to Russia easy. Intourist has a permanent representative in the U.S., books tourists through a dozen major U.S. travel agencies and 50 associated agencies. Chief among them: American Express, which now has its own office in Moscow, and Manhattan's Cosmos Travel Bureau. Six Western European airlines (SAS, Finnair, Air France, KLM, Sabena and British European Airways) fly into Russia, occasional boat cruises ply the Black Sea, and tourists can even enter Russia in their own autos...