Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three "critical dates"-Dec. 3, the earliest he could get away from preliminary budget chores; Dec. 11, the opening of the U.S. exhibit at the World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi; Dec. 19, the Western summit in Paris. Fortnight ago he sent off letters to India's Premier Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub accepting longstanding invitations to visit...
...Italy's Premier Antonio Segni that Italy, though not included in the Western summit, is not forgotten. He will also talk with Pope John XXIII. Thence via Turkey, Pakistan and Soviet-influenced Afghanistan (see map) the President will fly into New Delhi for five days of talks with Nehru and his advisers, for the opening of the U.S. exhibit, and a "very major" foreign policy speech (also for some sightseeing, including Agra's matchless Taj Mahal...
...think it is necessary for me to go into the reasons why Asia is important," said he. "I am hoping to build a better understanding of the U.S. and good will for us." In New Delhi, India's Premier Nehru keynoted a stack of hail-he's-on-the-way editorials by observing: "We are very happy and look forward to his coming . . . As the border problem is an important problem, I presume it will come up in the course of our discussions...
...time to accept help from other non-Communist countries. On the northern borders, all frontier posts were transferred from the police to the Indian army, now commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese and North Korean Communist soldiers, during which 21,814 of them refused to go home...
...week's end Nehru himself was beginning to talk tougher. Thousands cheered as he told a Congress Party rally that, though Red China is full of "the arrogance of might," India will not be intimidated. "China may be a big country, but India is not small," said Nehru. "We are not afraid. We are not weak...