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...statement about India," Indira Gandhi, daughter of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once observed, "is wholly true." Last week, in his capacity as president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of India, TIME's New Delhi Bureau Chief Donald S. Connery sat with officials of the Indian government to give his reporter's recommendations on press arrangements for President Eisenhower's imminent visit. Then, to escape distractions in both his office and at home, he slipped off to New Delhi's Ashoka Hotel to finish up a job that, by specific assignment, he had been...
...after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru in unlikely places. In Afghanistan last September, when Nehru was touring a model village, he noticed a familiar figure inspecting the next hut, said in surprise: "I didn't expect to find you here, Mr. Connery...
...Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists, who had greeted SHAPE Supreme Commander Ike on his last visit in 1952 with IKE, GO HOME, now waved placards praising THE SPIRIT or CAMP DAVID, and urging SUMMIT IMMEDIATELY, END COLD WAR and LONG LIVE PEACE...
...last thought. We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase, in expressing the aspirations of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom." This, I think, is America's real message to the world...
Gates, who has been Deputy Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems that McElroy did not get around to-plus an even more urgent need to grasp the military possibilities in space. Gates has a scant year before the Eisenhower Administration runs out of time, but if he only improves Pentagon morale and makes overdue decisions, he will surely qualify...