Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple on occasion to hold political prisoners without trial. Said Nehru: "It may be that...
...little Nehru's classic rationalization for arbitrary government impressed the free world's lawyers was made clear in the final resolution of the New Delhi congress. Among its recommendations...
With a press of a button, the wife of the U.S. ambassador started the fountains going, and one by one, led by Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira, the distinguished guests made their way by the dancing water. They mounted the great marble steps, crossed the terrace paved with smooth white pebbles from the banks of the Ganges, passed beyond a series of slender golden columns, and disappeared behind the great golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through...
Compared to the other new embassies in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi set up by Nehru, it is. About the only people who ever had any serious objections to it were its chief occupants, Ambassador and Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a man of conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs...
...banquet in the President's house, once the palace of the British viceroys, whose stiff portraits looked down upon them, the two Prime Ministers fell all over themselves singing the blessings of freedom. "Something big is happening in Africa," said Nehru, playing his role as Big Brother of anticolonialism. Then Nkrumah rose to say that as a student in the U.S., he had read Nehru's books and asked himself, "Why isn't that man in Africa?" He called Ghana "the springboard for the final liberation of the African continent . . . Africa," he cried, "must be free...