Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond that he sees at least an "Asiatic Federation of Nations," with the millions of India joined with the millions of China, to replace the broken rule of the white man in the Far East. Beyond that Nehru dreams and believes that an India, freed from "the perfect peace of the grave and the absolute safety of a cage," can take her place in a world order or world federation, welcoming the white man's science and know-how, friendly to Soviet Russia, a partner with the Anglo-American federation in bringing peace and order to the world...
...Nehru & the British. The British, Nehru once wrote, seized the body of India "and possessed her, but it was the possession of violence. They did not know her or try to know her. They never looked in her eyes, for theirs were averted and hers downcast through shame and humiliation...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
...Nehru believes, instead, that British rule has purposely thwarted and nullified Indian attempts at self-government and self-improvement; that British imperialists are "agreeable, astute, forcible, self-confident and, when hard pressed, unscrupulous people who know pretty well on which side their bread is buttered." To him there is no turning back, for there never was a parting of the ways. Even his good friend Sir Stafford Cripps, he found four months ago, was trying to present India with what to his mind amounted to a high-handed and narrow compromise that threatened to break up India into separate states...
...Nehru & Gandhi. There are some who believe that if Nehru had not played Hamlet to Gandhi's ghost, a compromise might have been effected before the latest call for civil disobedience. But past attempts by Nehru to enlist the services of the United Nations for a solution have ended in blind alleys...