Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, will visit Harvard today with his sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian ambassador to the United States. The visitors will be entertained at a small lunchoon given by President and Mrs. Cousut at the President's home. However, no public appearance is planned during the brief visit...
...Jhelum's steep banks thousands of Srinagar citizens watched the procession, occasionally set off firecrackers. Carefully coached schoolchildren shouted "Jawaharlal Nehru Zindabad!" (Long live Jawaharlal Nehru) and "Sher-i-Kashmirl" (Long live the Lion of Kashmir-Sheikh Abdullah). Merchants took advantage of a good opportunity, strung their rugs from house windows for all to see and buy; some erected huge banners across the river, with slogans like "Welcome from Ali Mohamed-best Persian and Kashmiri carpets...
...procession's end, Nehru stepped from his barge to an automobile and sped off to a guest house. Along the way he was serenaded by a volunteer band which seemed to know only one tune-Marching Through Georgia...
...gesture, an arbitration proposal backed by the U.S. and Britain, had been accepted by Pakistan, rejected by India. Abdullah's delegates passed a resolution denouncing the "arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought to be punished as such...
Back in New Delhi at week's end, Nehru said that the U.S.S.R.'s atomic discovery may help prevent war. "The more terrible the dangers of war," Nehru explained, "the more the people should see the folly of it and avoid it. But people do not always behave logically, of course...