Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indian leaders sadly admitted the difficulties. Said External Affairs Minister Jawaharlal Nehru: "What are we aiming at? Freedom? Yes. Higher standards? Yes. But we are ultimately aiming at feeding, clothing, housing, educating and providing better health conditions for 400,000,000." Said Gandhi: "If Hindus and Moslems must fight, let them be brave and fight it out amongst themselves." He was geometrically hopeful: "Euclid's line is one without breadth, but no one has been able to draw it and never will. All the same, it is only by keeping the ideal line in mind that we have made...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of India's new interim Government, wanted more of his countrymen-who used to go mainly to Britain for education-to look to the U.S. As he spoke, there were 300 Indians on the high seas, heading for U.S. universities; 300 others had already enrolled...
...roamed the city in search of safety and food (most markets had been pilfered or closed). Police blotters were filled with stories of women raped, mutilated and burned alive. Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions. Cried Hindu Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (who is trying to form an interim government despite the Moslems' refusal to enter it): "Either direct action knocks the Government over, or the Government knocks direct action over...
Meanwhile, the Indian press directed a spray of propaganda at what the Congress papers call "enemy pockets" and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru calls "these foreign pimples." A Goan Congress Party was functioning underground since no political parties are allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more...
Perhaps the only man who could have stopped Gandhi was brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...