Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers to "heed good advice." Before the 1956 presidential campaign, Constella-the nom de plume for a sometime poet named Shirley Spencer - rashly predicted that Eisenhower would not be a candidate for re-election and that the election would go to a Democrat, and then named him: Averell Harriman...
...Averell Harriman, heir in Government service, now Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs...
...Delhi, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman sat through a grueling round of conferences with Indian officials. Their mission was twofold: to organize military aid to beleaguered India, and to seek an end to India's long festering dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. The controversy dates back to independence in 1947, when the Hindu ruler of Kashmir opted to join India instead of Moslem Pakistan, despite the fact that 77% of the province is Moslem. Bloody violence erupted; the United Nations proposed a plebiscite as a means of settling...
...Delhi Sandys, with the sympathetic support of Harriman, impressed on Jawaharlal Nehru that unless the Kashmir problem was solved, there would be little hope of defending the subcontinent against Chinese aggression. As they pointed out, four divisions of crack Indian troops had been tied down along the cease-fire line; Red China was trying to play Pakistan off against India by offering the Pakistanis a non-aggression pact. No longer counseled by ousted Defense Minister Krishna Menon, who obsessively regards Pakistan as India's main enemy, Nehru finally agreed to write Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, suggesting...
...that end, a U.S. mission headed by Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Averell Harriman and U.S. Army General Paul D. Adams flew to New Delhi to confer with Indian officials on defense requirements. Soon after, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys arrived with a similar British mission. Their most stunning discovery: after five years under Nehru's hand-picked Defense Minister, Krishna Menon, the Indian army was lamentably short of ammunition even for its antiquated Lee Enfield rifles...