Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also got from President Roosevelt the title of "minister plenipotentiary and personal representative of the President." In his best brash style, Personal Representative Johnson had blown up a small tornado of interviews (19 with Sir Stafford Cripps, 16 with the Indian National Congress Party's Jawaharlal Nehru). He got along famously with his Indian callers, freely admitting that he knew nothing about India except what he had learned from Kim and With Clive In India as a boy. Once he quoted to Pandit Nehru: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right...
...Stafford Cripps failed in his mission to India because he could not overcome the stubborn and misguided idealism of the Indian nationalist leaders, Ghandi and Nehru," Walter Eugene Clark. Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, asserted yesterday...
India's most pressing need today is for leaders with a more practical view point, because those who speak for India are hopeless visionaries, Ghandi and Nehru have become irrationally possessed, as only an Indian can, with the idea of complete independence for India, and their passion for the idea has blinded them to every practical aspect of their country's quest for freedom, the professor stated...
Ghandi and Nehru must cease merely shouting for independence, for the present, and announce to the United Nations how they propose to cope with two problems: "First can India, be allowed to fight her own war, as she has demanded of Cripps, when today only a very few Indians are as high in rank as captain and colonel...
...proposal for them : the opportunity to form a separate state. This proposal was not misliked by the Moslem League's President Ali Mohamed Jinnah, who fears' nothing so much as the establishment of a Hindu raj, hand-picked by Congress. But it was much misliked by Nehru and other Congress leaders: they feared Moslem secession, cried that Indian unity should not be destroyed...