Word: lal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time to make democracy secure at home. Only by recognizing the desire to relieve tensions and settle disputes can one understand the apparent inconsistencies in Nehru's foreign policy. Repeated attempts to admit Red China to the United Nations alongside stern warnings to Ho Chi Minh and Chou En Lal to observe the Indo-Chinese truce agreements are linked only by the single purpose of achieving some kind of a live-and-let-live settlement in Asia...
This faith in Nehru carries over to his so-called "neutralist" foreign policy. Whether Nehru invites Chou En Lal to New Delhi or speaks out against U. S. arms to Pakistan, he has substantial support from the people. For Nehru and most Indians oppose Communism, believing that the best method to keep India democratic is to increase food production, education, and industrial and village development. If the government remains both nationalistic and economically progressive, the people will give it their support, and there is little danger of India's joining the Communist camp...
...crusty old master grows almost lyrical. "We are making great things," he says. "Things with hand labor, without machines. Architecture abounds [in India]-it flows as the music flows in Bach." Most of India's architects are just as enthusiastic. Wrote the Punjab's Chief Engineer Parameshari Lal Varma, in a recent letter to Le Corbusier: "What you are giving to India I pray may become a source of new inspiration in our architecture and city planning...
...paper. Had the idea of paradise been original or unknown to men, he could not have explained it. He luckily abandons his analysis of perfection after the first three chapters, and fills the rest of the book with histories of the Chinese peasant Jong Yosen, the Indian untouchable Ramji Lal, and the Swedish jet pilot Buster Schnell. In these lie the greatest value of the book. Using his correspondent's approach. Tregaskis traces the lives of these people from their traditional existences to the new one each finds himself leading...