Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farewell. Nehru's leave-taking from Bombay was such a scene as only an Eastern country in transition could stage. A harsh afternoon sun beat down on the airfield as the Prime Minister arrived, perspiring in his brown achkan (neck-high jacket) and white salwars (jodhpur-like pants). A small array of dignitaries, students and plain curious citizens waited near the runway...
...Nehru had ten minutes before the London-bound airliner took off. Flanked by an admiral and a general, he approvingly reviewed an honor guard of the Indian navy. Only the day before, dedicating a new national defense academy at Poona, the Prime Minister, as a former believer in passive resistance, had pronounced it "odd" that "we who for generations have talked about . . . and practiced nonviolence should now be glorifying our Army, Navy and Air Force. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Though life is logical, we have to face all contingencies, and unless...
...strode toward the plane's ramp after the review, the Prime Minister was halted by a shaggy sadhu (holy man), black-bearded and maned, who thrust a bouquet of chrysanthemums into his hand. Graciously, Nehru took the gift. On the ramp's top, he turned and clasped hands in a farewell namasthe. "Goodbye and good luck," he called...
...crowd clapped enthusiastically for the man who has no peer in popularity through all of India. As the plane winged away, a student voiced the national confidence: "America is a capitalist country, but Nehru will be careful to keep us out of entanglements...
...Looksee. No one in the U.S. wanted to entangle Jawaharlal Nehru and his 355,000,000 countrymen. There was, however, a strong impulse to disentangle him and his intellectual fellows from some of their clinging suspicions of the U.S. and its motives...