Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-Semitism (Walter Winchell yowled that he was the tool of the big oil interests because the Arabian American Oil Co. had air-conditioned his apartment). When the U.S. recognized Israel, Henderson once more became an embarrassment and was shipped out as Ambassador to India. He and Pandit Nehru quickly developed a keen mutual dislike for each other...
...thought Nehru was an old man, but he is young," glowed the 19-year-old Dalai Lama in Peking last week. The truth was, however, that Nehru looked bad. For several weeks he had suffered acute insomnia; he had flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near...
...Time." Nehru now sees the anti-seizure clause as an obstacle to "social justice." Said he recently to a big crowd near Bombay: "The constitution is not as sacred as some think . . . These things chain us." To a conference of engineers assigned to river-valley projects he cried: "Now is the time to go as fast as if the devil is on our heels. To hell with the man who cannot keep pace...
...ministers and politicians who oppose him, none can stand for long against Jawaharlal Nehru. The chosen political instrument of Mahatma Gandhi and the great man's successor, he is still the village spellbinder, the favorite of India's masses. The Congress Party, riddled with corruption and disliked by Indians at large, has no one else of Nehru's stature (Indians sometimes refer to Congress politicos as "pygmies in high chairs") and cannot hope to cling to power without him. If the threat to resign does not in itself quiet the opposition, Nehru is safe in gambling that...
Comfortable in this knowledge, Prime Minister Nehru departed for Red Peking and waystops last week with a big smile (in spite of a bad case of the sniffles) and a firm promise that, on his return, he would be ready to get down to business about some changes in foreign policy and "the whole approach" to India's domestic problems...