Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yesterday," India's Prime Minister Nehru told an electrified Parliament, "I was thinking of informing the House of a certain development, but I hesitated to do so because I wanted it to be fully confirmed." Then, as the M.P.s broke into wild cheers, Nehru produced the news for which the whole free world had been waiting: Tibet's god-king, the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, had successfully eluded the Communists and reached India in safety...
Toward week's end Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, new president of the ruling Congress Party, seemed to reverse her father's earlier decision to close India's borders against refugees. Paying tribute to the Dalai Lama (who has reportedly fled Lhasa) as a "man of vision and intelligence." Nehru's daughter promised that any Tibetans fleeing to India would be "granted asylum under international...
...Nehru Upholds Treaty...
...DELHI, India, April 5--Prime Minister Nehru declared today India is still guided by her treaty of coexistence with Red China despite the fact this nation is "obviously interested and concerned about what happens" in Tibet...
...cannot ignore it--Tibet--or look away," Nehru told a news conference...