Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Jawaharlal Nehru: "Sometimes when there are no new experiences, time seems to stop." Then, in wry reference to his years in British jails, he added: "And I have had this experience of time stopping for months and years in my life...
...Advantage of Detachment. During a hectic week in Manhattan, before he started on his flying trip across the country, Pandit Nehru got an official reception at New York's City Hall (which was being picketed by striking Sanitation Department workers), visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over...
Looking more & more tired, Nehru rode back & forth between receptions, up & down Manhattan Island, preceded by wailing police sirens and greeted by politely cheering crowds. He was usually accompanied by his sister, plump Mrs. Pandit, India's Ambassador to the U.S., and his slim daughter, Indira, both in flowing saris...
...allegory was terrific. Unfortunately, Nehru wasn't looking for allegories. He was in the United States to see what the place was like, to meet the every-day people, to get a fair idea of Western civilization. The Prime Minister of India, which he calls the "Third Power," simply wanted to see if America was better than Russia. That's why he liked the booming Wellesley reception so much; that's why he told the girls: "I don't know what else to say--I shall remember this visit for a long time...
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have thought the University's protocol interesting--perhaps amusing--but, like many a Harvard man, he found what he wanted at Wellesley...