Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end small gangs of Communist terrorists were getting revenge. In the Calcutta area they bombed an airport and engineering works, killed seven people. The raids were timed as a warning to Prime Minister Pandit Nehru who had announced he would address India's legislative assembly on Communism...
...Nehru was not terrorized. In his angriest attack on the Reds, he said: ". . . Communists have looked upon these strikes not from the trade union point of view . . . but as a weapon designed to create a chaotic state in the country . . . [They are] deliberately seeking to create famine conditions by paralyzing our railway system ... It is not the government's conception of civil liberty to permit methods of coercion and terrorism...
...January 22, representatives of 19 Asiatic nations, assembled in India by Nehru, demanded that the Dutch cease military activity immediately, withdraw to their lines of December 18, and reestablish the Republic by March 15. The UN passed a similar resolution five days later, calling for a constituent assembly by July 1950, followed by a transfer of sovereignty to the U.S.I., but not specifying the withdrawal of Dutch troops...
...Western allies. The Dutch meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Willem Drees would personally go to Indonesia to settle the islands' future. The way things looked in Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping Indonesia's republicans. Burma's ex-Premier Ba Maw announced that a Burmese expeditionary force (including 100 women) would leave shortly for Indonesia to fight the Dutch. An official spokesman...
...Dutch, were quite clearly dismayed. They felt that unilateral military action by the Dutch was a slap in the face not only to the United Nations, but to hundreds of millions of Asiatics who expected the West to abjure all remnants of old-style colonial rule. Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India promptly reacted as had been expected; he denounced the Dutch attack as imperialism...