Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chou & Ho. But peace-bitter for the Vietnamese, triumphant for the Communists-was in the air. From India, Nehru cabled Britain's Anthony Eden after his meeting in New Delhi with Red China's Chou Enlai. Little now divided the French from the Chinese, Chou had told Nehru. There would be a line drawn across Viet Nam. Laos and Cambodia would be independent but "neutral." These terms, Chou said, had been accepted by Mendeès-France...
...hundred thousand men and women in brightly colored turbans and saris, standing in the 100° sun, cheered Prime Minister Nehru one day last week as he pressed a button and sent tons of water roaring through a new canal toward the parched deserts of India's thirsty East Punjab. Along the 238-mile, tile-lined concrete canal, devout Hindus burned camphor. Tears ran down the wrinkled cheeks of old peasants who, in past years, had seen their children and their cattle perish in drought...
...Nehru (whose name means canal) was opening the first link in the Bhakra-Nangal Canal System, part of an Indian-financed, U.S.-engineered $327 million hydroelectric-irrigation project. Starting in the Himalayan foothills where the Sutlej River pours onto the plains, the project has more than 4,500 miles of canals, will eventually distribute water through an area twice the size of New Jersey, some of it in chronic famine...
...nine hours Chou conferred with Burma's able Socialist Premier Nu, who had warned Nehru at the Colombo conference (TIME, May 10) that the Communists in Indo-China and in Burma's own upcountry regions were a little too close for comfort. The two ministers reportedly considered a Red China-Burma non-aggression pact, and in public they hailed their "most friendly and cordial meeting." The pro-government papers eagerly paid tribute to Red China as the Asian power "capable of keeping at bay the capitalist military machine." But in Burma, unlike India, it seemed that there were...
...reiterated British insistence that any Western plans for Asia must wait on India's Nehru, then launched a new proposal for an international guarantee for any Indo-Chinese settlement, "a reciprocal arrangement in which both sides take part, such as Locarno [see box]." Said Eden...