Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gives the Most?" "I feel about Kashmir as one feels about a woman," says India's Premier Nehru, who comes often to sip the cold spring water in a Kashmir garden or to spin down the Jhelum River with Kashmir's Premier Sheik Abdullah (see cut). Many a tourist has shared his view, but last week the tourist flood that might have rushed to enjoy the coolness and romance of Kashmir's capital city Srinagar was dammed off by Nehru's government...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, briefly interrupting his tour of war-riven Kashmir, treated himself to a game of badminton doubles, paired with Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh, treated the world to a pleasant scene of dignified concentration and earnest endeavor...
...looking for an answer to the first question, at least, last week. For the first time since the occupation began, SCAP trade missions (including Japanese) were out digging up orders. In New Delhi the missioners got a warm welcome. They were garlanded with roses and handed jasmine bouquets; Premier Nehru sent "greetings and good wishes" to the Japanese people. India wanted textile machinery and was willing to give coal, jute and raw cotton...
Disrespect in the Soles. Two of the chief mourners on the duck which bore Gandhi's ashes were Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, both clad in white dhotis, both barefoot. The two men on whom India's hopes were now pinned-the gentle, philosophical Nehru, who agreed with Gandhi's policy of conciliation toward Moslems, and the hard man of action Patel, no conciliator-seemed united in grief and respect for Gandhi's wishes. Their first step had been to strike at the extremist communal organizations, Hindu and Moslem, which had been fomenting religious hatred...
...Hindu customs and scriptures, where Moslems and other non-Hindus would be at best tolerated strangers. In recent months R.S.S.S. recruits (beginning at eight years of age) have been drilled to hate Congress leaders. One exercise was to smash pictures of Gandhi. Another: to wear pictures of Gandhi and Nehru on the inner soles of their shoes, a supreme mark of disrespect...