Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took months to analyze them. Last week, on orders from Nehru himself, a squad of policemen swept up to Dalmia's white-pillared house in New Delhi. Dalmia, clutching two small gold idols, was carted off to jail while the house resounded to the piercing wails of his wives. The charge against one of the world's richest men: embezzlement of $4,200,000-worth of government bonds from his own Bharat Insurance Co., keystone of his empire...
...promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh appendage. In the past year Ho's agents have built it up into a tightly disciplined Communist state, complete with full-dress government ministries, a capital at Samneua, brainwashing squads and a conscripted army of 10,000 men trained, supplied, and controlled by 1.500 or more regular Viet Minh troops...
Last week, on a formal visit to New Delhi. Katay accused the Viet Minh of outright aggression, bluntly reminded Nehru that "Laos was an outpost of Indian civilization when there was competition between India and China ... We look to you today for help." In effect, he was challenging Nehru to invoke his old promise from Ho Chi Minh. Nehru simply said: "It's for the people of Laos to solve their own problems, not for others to interfere too much," and offered to help arrange further negotiations between the legal government and the Red interlopers...
...count the cost. "In my 35 years of public health experience in Europe, Africa and Asia," said Dr. Daubenton, "I have never seen a disaster of the extent of that now being borne by India and Pakistan, or suffering so great." Touring Orissa last week, Prime Minister Nehru thought to ginger up male survivors who had panicked when the rains came so calamitously. "Why do you behave like women," he snapped. He remembered too late that there were women at the meeting, turned to them and apologized: "Excuse me, sisters...
...India, Prime Minister Nehru's government turned down a request from the New York Times for permission to print its daily international edition in India,* because of a new regulation against printing "Indian editions of foreign periodicals which deal mainly with news and current affairs." This was the latest in a long list of attempts by the Nehru government to curb freedom of the press; if Nehru has his way, India's entire press will be brought under government control. His government has asked the Indian Parliament to give it the authority to fix prices of papers...