Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was overlooked in your Dec. 5 article on the visiting Russians: the conception of Indian hospitality. Nehru received such ovations in Russia that all Indians would be ashamed if the Indians would not return to the Soviet leaders a hundredfold what Nehru received in Russia. What can a host do ? If the guest of honor at your cocktail party gives a hearty belch, would you immediately kick...
...India's foreign policy was recently illustrated by a cartoon [see cut]: a rather small Nehru walking between a big Eisenhower and a big Bulganin, having his right hand in Eisenhower's and his left hand in Bulganin's pocket, and captioned "Economic Coexistence...
Orangeade and Opium. The first subject Norodom took up with his people last week was foreign policy. Cambodia, he said, would join Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
India's leader, it turned out, also had some reservations about Khrushchev and Bulganin and their performance while in India. But Nehru was considerably less outspoken about this. He sent his Cabinet a formal note (allowed to leak to the press) describing the Russians' anti-Western speeches as embarrassing, especially in view of India's position of neutrality between the Western and Soviet blocs. But they were guests, the Prime Minister explained, and could have been silenced only with "great difficulty...
Addressing 50,000 Indians in Coimbatore, Nehru said: "Some people in the West are very angry that we gave the Russians a warm welcome. Countries-whether on this side or that-think you should be either with them or against them. But we shall make friends with all who are friendly with us, and we shall continue to be friendly with those who do not want to be friends with us. But naturally our contacts will be closer with those who are friendly than with those who refuse to be friendly...