Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symington and Pat Brown-and all autographed the same copy. Carter also has signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...
Dulles moved on from there to settle the intolerable situation in Korea, in which the Kaesong-Panmunjom truce talks had dragged on for 18 months while U.S. and U.N. forces suffered thousands of casualties a week. He informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes...
...trying to come to terms with it. In Kenya, Indian members of the Legislative Council have joined with Labor Leader Tom Mboya against the whites. But the fact remains that a few years ago the Mau Mau were just as ready to dismember Asians as Europeans (though Nehru blindly urged Kenya's Indians to support the Mau Mau "liberation army"), and that in some of the recent riots in Nyasaland, Indians and their shops were the chief victims. "We are like a football," says one Nyasaland Moslem. "We get kicked from the European side. We run to the African...
...many Asian eyes. The independent Times of Indonesia warned that Red China was losing what few friends it had left. From Japan to Ceylon, Asians angrily recalled the fine words of Red China's Premier Chou En-lai at the Bandung Conference in 1955, when he warmly embraced Nehru's Panch Shila (Five Principles) and specifically promised to respect "the rights of the people of all countries to choose freely a way of life as well as political and economic systems." India's press and public demanded that Nehru be at least as forthright in denouncing...
...rest of the world cheered the rebels and denounced their oppressors but made no other move. India, the biggest free neighbor, was giving shamefaced support to Premier Nehru's reiterated insistence that "India was anxious to have friendly relations with Red China...