Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe, Communist strength is down. In the Middle East, Arab nationalism is for the first time beginning to show substantial misgivings about Communism's brotherly support. Not long ago those Misters In-Between-Nehru, Nasser and Tito-were neutral in Moscow's favor; now they all have their doubts...
Because of fog -"the last thing we expected to see in New Delhi" -the royal plane was two hours late, but Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, proved well worth the wait. As beaming Prime Minister Nehru looked on at the airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back...
...India Prime Minister Nehru's handsome 41-year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira...
Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to be careful to say little to offend Moscow or Peking. But in a memo to his ruling Congress Party last August, Nehru had criticized the "growing contradictions" in Communism, charged that Communism's "unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings," and likened the Reds' reliance on violence to that of the fascists. Lately, Nehru has found himself under attack from no less a Red than Pavel Yudin, Soviet Ambassador to Red China and one of the Soviet Communist Party's leading theoreticians. In the December issue...
...when they get to comparing notes, Tito might solace Nehru by reciting the more abusive things Moscow and Peking find to say about Tito...