Word: lakshmi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, Nehru heard his sister, Ambassador to the U.S. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, report to Parliament that many Americans were irked by what they considered the Prime Minister's inconsistency on the Communist question. Nehru interrupted. "I am not prepared to be anti-this or anti-that," he cried angrily. "I may be soft to some, hard to others at times, but I dislike being pushed about or bullied . . . Some on the Anglo-American side call me a Communist, while some on the other side call me an imperialist . . . People ask me: 'Are you this...