Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Change of Attire. Over the smiles, the flowers, the bubbles, hung a question: Just what is this new Commonwealth? Not the old one, that was sure. Most prominent and respected man at the London conference last week was Jawaharlal Nehru, who had spent 14 years of his life in British jails; for this he held no grudge against Britain, but for his lifelong struggle he certainly had no repentance. Nehru, on arriving in London, changed his long black sherwani for a Savile Row suit. He looked well in a Homburg...
...easy as that? Nehru, Westernized leader of an un-Westernized nation, stood for a bewildering new fact: the vast majority of the people of the British Dominions do not speak English, have only partial contact with British institutions and are not deeply touched by what Winston Churchill has called "unity within the mysterious circle of the Crown...
Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to drink very moderately, has now gone on the wagon, and his government is trying to get other public officials to do the same. The Bombay provincial government recently warned its civil servants that it would take "serious notice" if they were found taking alcoholic drinks in public places...
...Indian and Hyderabad governments exchanged the customary notes. Nehru demanded that the Nizam disband his private Moslem army of Razakars, headed by Kasim Razvi. The Nizam refused. Nehru announced: "We will march!" and warned that any blood shed would be on the Nizam's head. The Nizam said it would be on Nehru's head...
Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was determined to incorporate the princely state of Hyderabad into India. Hyderabad's Moslem Nizam, whose 15 million Hindu subjects are completely dominated by two million privileged Moslems, insisted on remaining independent (TIME...