Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nehru usually spoke without notes, ramblingly and frankly. At an Overseas Press Club luncheon, asked if he wished his remarks to stay off the record, he cracked: "How can you be off the record to 500 people?" In his low, Cantabrigian voice, which carried only traces of Asian inflections, he expressed a noncommittal and slightly distant good will to the U.S. India, said Pandit Nehru, does "not wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally...
...Fear of Fear. Nehru delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
...Nehru, visitor in a land of plenty from a land of want, spoke quietly and simply of his people's past sufferings and of their present needs. But sometimes his words suggested that he did not want to be tainted by the riches and the power he saw about him-even though they might help India along her difficult road. Said he: "It is just like the man who possesses many valuables . . . being constantly afraid of losing or somebody stealing them . . . Possibly he might be a more comfortable man if he didn't have them ... In the terms...
...Dismal Grownups. From New York, Nehru went to Boston, visited Harvard, M.I.T. and Wellesley, where 1,700 college girls gave him a cheery reception. He wished, he told them, that he did not have to make so many speeches in the U.S. "Grownup people like myself," he said, "grow more & more dismal, talking dismal subjects...
Then he left for a three-day visit to Canada; with his party he viewed Niagara Falls from Maid-of-the-Mist (see cut). This week Pandit Nehru would take off on a two-week flying trip across the U.S. to continue what he called his education...