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...action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked streets with boulders and gasoline drums, tore up lampposts, ripped down fences. They smashed statues of Mahatma Gandhi (a Gujarati himself), burned Desai in effigy, flourished pictures of Nehru hung with old shoes as a gesture of despisal. Mobs, sometimes 10,000 strong, stormed police stations, looted Gujarati shops, flung electric light bulbs filled with nitric acid in the faces of police and passersby. Saboteurs derailed trains...
...happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated. Removing their shoes, they stood at the spot for a silent moment (long enough to reflect, if they remembered at all, that the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the saint of India a reactionary who "pretended in a demagogic way" to lead the Indian...
Into the House. Educated in India, Switzerland and England (Oxford), she married a lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma). But the marriage soon had to be subordinated to father's needs. By 1946, over her husband's objections, she moved herself and her two small sons into her father's house in New Delhi, began acting as Widower Nehru's hostess and housekeeper. Soon Nehru was taking her with him everywhere-to the U.S., to China, to Russia...
...farewell speech before 70,000 Russians at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, Nehru voiced the surprising notion that in its struggle for freedom India had been influenced by the October Revolution. "Although under the leadership of Mahatma...
...Nehru, including a Page One picture, a rare compliment to a non-Communist foreigner), the crowd released white doves, threw bouquets into Nehru's lap, or broke the sidelines to heap strings of lilacs on Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (no kin of the late great Mahatma, who is described in the latest Soviet Encyclopedia as an enemy of the people...