Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's angry view, that was what the U.S. and its partners were trying to do by signing the Manila Pact, which is another significant challenge to Nehru's claim to be the Voice of Asia. The Manila treaty, complained Nehru, is forcing protection on "countries that do not want to be protected...
...Nehru and his only daughter, Indira Gandhi (36) will fly to Peking as guests of Chou Enlai. But, of course, the look of neutrality would be scrupulously preserved. While Nehru is in China, India's Vice President Radhakrishnan will be presenting an ivory gavel, carved from an Indian elephant's tusk, to the U.S. Senate. The Senate's gavel, in use since the days of the first Vice President, John Adams, was recently broken by hard-gaveling Richard Nixon. India offers to replace it as "a symbolic gesture of friendship towards...
...million people. That's twelve times as many as I had to look after when I was Prime Minister." In Canberra, he assured a group of Australian M.P.s that "the whole Chinese people are out for peace," and declared that the Chinese leaders were "genuine idealists." ("Nehru has never gone as far as that," said one astonished Indian...
...Nehru Is the Culprit. The U.S. is active, too. Mickey Spillane's paperback epics can be bought in most bookstores. Copies of Living America, a USIS house organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...
...reason why they are winning lies in India's poverty and ignorance. Another reason is racial: after centuries of white colonialism, the brown man and the yellow man are still moving away from the West. Yet, in Professor Redding's view, the No. i culprit is Nehru-style neutralism. Convinced of their moral superiority, India's intellectuals are too busy supporting "a posture of national rectitude, neutrality and innocence" to pay any attention to the Communist danger. Tyrants won't attack us, is their attitude. We're too good and kind...