Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice scheduled to address University audiences but appearing for the first time, V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and chief foreign affairs advisor to Jawaharlal Nehru, will speak to a combined Harvard-Radcliffe gathering tonight on India's political situation...
Krishna Menon who was called off to London on the eve of a similarly scheduled visit here two weeks ago to take part in talks between India's Nehru, head of the Indian National Congress, and Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, will speak under the auspices of the newly-formed United Nations Council...
...Smoking" sign stayed on for an hour out of Karachi. When it went out, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, in a front-row seat, chain-smoked State Express 555 cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader
Sardar Balder Singh. In the plane's third row sat Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India. For three years he had been trying to bring Nehru and Jinnah into agreement, now, with the peace of India hanging by a thread, they were a yard apart in space, politically as remote as ever...
...Krishna Menon was forced to cancel a scheduled lecture on Indian political problems last night when he was suddenly called to London to participate in conferences between Jawaharlal Nehru, head of the Indian National Congress, and Clement Attice, England's Prime Minister...