Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
...harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five-day trip to Cork was over...
...Farewell. Nehru's leave-taking from Bombay was such a scene as only an Eastern country in transition could stage. A harsh afternoon sun beat down on the airfield as the Prime Minister arrived, perspiring in his brown achkan (neck-high jacket) and white salwars (jodhpur-like pants). A small array of dignitaries, students and plain curious citizens waited near the runway...
Unless the distinguished guest so requested, there would be no conferences of high state, no thought of pressure or promises, no hint of alliances or pacts, no talk of loans or investments. In a packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
...Delhi or touring his India, Nehru sticks to salwars, a homespun shirt and a white Gandhi cap for his high bald crown. He is Panditji-literally, Mister Scholar -to his people. To most of them his Cambridge speech is unintelligible, nor is he himself quite at ease in the Hindu vernaculars. The mass of Indians cannot read his prolific English writings. Nonetheless, he has followed in Gandhi's footsteps as a popular national hero...