Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Chinese thought they should be getting a lot more help from their allies, they gave Wendell Willkie the biggest reception yet. It was bigger than Jawaharlal Nehru got in 1939, than Lauchlin Currie got in 1941. Even the Japanese contributed: Japanese scouting planes, looking for Willkie, nosed toward Chungking for three days running, but ran into fog before they reached the capital...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru once explained to his daughter: "[Sir Warren] Hastings started the policy of having puppet Indian princes under British control. So we have to thank him partly for the crowds of gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves...
...Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's right-hand man and China's great & good friend, the Chungking press has "hoped" for mediation. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, director of political affairs, stated the Chinese position when he said that the conflict is not a British domestic question, but a moral issue concerning...
Your sympathetic account of Nehru and your fair estimate of the critical situation in India [TIME, Aug. 24] is a model of good journalism and might well be emulated by most of the U. S. press, which shows such a lack of understanding of India and the crucial position of that unhappy country...
...primary fact was that, led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress party leaders had declared (before being jailed) for armed resistance to the Japanese, if Indian independence, or a national government, was granted. The harped-on secondary issues were Gandhi's pacificism, his suspected pro-Japanese attitude, the threat of Hindu-Moslem civil...