Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emerged last week as probably the third most important man in Hindu India, after Mohandas Gandhi, former leader, and Jawaharlal Nehru, present leader of the Indian National Congress party. In fact, C. R. is the man responsible for Gandhi's no longer being leader of the Congress...
...That's Emerson," said Nehru...
...next time they met, Nehru remarked: "We were both wrong. It was Voltaire...
...time it was thought that the energetic stranger from the U.S. would be a great help to Sir Stafford. But soon, significantly, Pandit Nehru told the press: "We have not asked for anyone's intervention. For my part, I admire President Roosevelt and consider he has been shouldering a very great burden worthily...
Behind the elaborate wording of the rejections the political bitterness and rivalry for local power between the Congress and the Moslem League was plainer than ever. There were rumors that Pandit Nehru had led a Congress minority which favored accepting Britain's compromise, that the Moslem League had been ready to accept until the Congress decided to reject. Sir Stafford implied as much when he said : "Negotiations have been pro longed in the case of the Congress only." Though his great mission had failed, it was likely that his three weeks in India, and his account of them...