Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mussoorie in northeast India, Tibet's rightful ruler, the Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but by his Indian hosts. Nehru's government sharply pointed out that there was no question of a Tibetan government-in-exile "under the Dalai Lama functioning in India," and seemed to concede that Tibet is an internal affair of Red China. Sounding both old and tired of it all, Prime Minister Nehru, 69, said...
...Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou En-lai and of Hammarskjold himself, Nasser and the Secretary General talked for three hours. Then the Secretary General left, tightlipped, for Geneva...
...brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with his older half brother, M. P. Koirala, over whom he later triumphed in a struggle for power...
Sharing the vaguely socialist views of India's Nehru, but "with room for free-enterprise capitalism," the energetic Prime Minister recognizes Communists as his enemies at home and Red China as his enemy abroad; in typical Red "cartographic aggression," Chinese maps lay claim to large chunks of Nepal. Not long ago, Koirala declared that "the Tibetan tragedy was an Asian parallel to the Hungarian annihilation." Nehru has not been heard to say as much about either Tibet or Hungary...
Although still the idol of India's millions and an extraordinary crowd-pleaser, Nehru has clearly lost his once unshakable hold on the country's intellectuals, business leaders and the press. As the Bombay Current put it last week, complaining about Nehru's trust in Communist promises: "A time has come in India when the free man is not prepared to stake his freedom on Mr. Nehru's wobbly judgment. The oracle of New Delhi is proving too often wrong in his prophecies...