Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, the tense and secret conferences went on in New Delhi. First, Prime Minister Nehru called at the red sandstone palace of President Rajendra Prasad. A few minutes after Nehru drove off, his daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the new head of the ruling Congress Party, drove up. Later, President Prasad called on his bedridden Home Affairs Minister. Finally, the decision that Nehru has so long dreaded was made...
Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that things had got out of hand, Nehru still hoped to persuade Namboodiripad to resign in peace. Namboodiripad himself talked as if he wanted to-but was talked out of it by higher Red authority...
Even in ordering Namboodiripad out of office, Nehru characteristically sent him assurances of "warm personal regards." Nehru's daughter Indira had no such attitude. What about the Communist threat to stir up trouble all over India? Snapped Indira: "When have the Communists not created trouble...
...though India's handful of polytechnic institutes and the science faculties have expanded facilities to admit five times as many students, there are still too few openings. Under terrific pressure, universities have admitted some 800,000 more students this year than in 1949. But the "student indiscipline" that Nehru keeps inveighing against has grown more widespread...
Storm & Thunder. But if much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself...