Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded him with questions about U.S. foreign policy, morals and politics. And soon afterwards, a Calcutta editor challenged him to defend discrimination in the U.S., demanding: "Would you be comfortable sitting down to dinner with a black Indian-not a brown Indian like myself, but a really black...
...country: "I simply don't believe it." Then, as the U.S. wisely abstained from voting. India's Binay R. Sen, 58, present Ambassador to Japan, was elected with 42 votes. After his election, FAO Chief Sen spoke the kindest words about the U.S. that have fallen from Indian lips in a long time. Said he: "The U.S. withdrawal when vic tory was in sight took great courage and self-denial . . We believe the U.S. has taken note of the growing desire on the part of less developed areas to take over the direction...
Much as India's Nehru may hate the term, his government has always regarded the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal (pop. 8,500,000) as an Indian "sphere of influence." After the Chinese Communists moved into Tibet in 1950, Nehru said flatly: "The defense of Nepal is important to the security of India...
...Indians quickly began to see Chinese Communist agents streaming past Mt. Everest to spy with impunity. To Indian protestations, Nepalese replied that they have a 500-mile border with Tibet and could hardly be expected to reject Communist China's advances indefinitely. To drive home the point, Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya .assembled a twelve-man delegation and headed for Peking to talk business...
...especially, he hungers for his native land, so much so that he can devote pages to assuaging "the whole intolerable memory of exile and nostalgia" by a recitation of American names: the States, the Indian tribes, the railways, the rivers and mountains and towns...