Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 290 rich colonial years, the "French presence" in India came to an end. Pondicherry and three other small enclaves ("pimples on the face of India" Jawaharlal Nehru had once called them) were turned over to India, in accordance with the recent agreement between Nehru and Pierre Mendès-Fraance. Thus India effortlessly picked up 193 square miles of territory and 320,000 new citizens. The reek of gunpowder attended the takeover, but it came from joyfully exploding fireworks...
...Both ourselves and China cherish peace," India's 64-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru told a farewell press conference in Peking last week. He heatedly denied that his trip had revealed "serious differences" between him and the Chinese Communists, conceding only that "India's basic approach is somewhat different" from Red China's. At a farewell banquet, Nehru grandiloquently hailed Mao Tse-tung as "Great warrior! Great revolutionary! Great builder and consolidator!", pausing only to add: "May he now be a great peacemaker also...
...China acted sorry to have Nehru leave. "No sorrow as painful as that of parting," said Mao. Twenty thousand regimented schoolchildren cried: "Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers!" Yet for Red China, the Peking conference had turned out to be an unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into...
Back home, the Indian newspapers, instead of being disappointed, seemed to be glad that Communist hospitality had not turned Nehru's head. Despite Red China's "power politics," commented the influential Times of India approvingly, Nehru had clung to "non-alignment...
Arriving in Saigon at week's end, Nehru predicted hopefully that Communist China would have its hands full for 15 or 20 years, getting its economy working, and wants peace...