Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position on such questions as where the proposed U.N. summit conference should be held, what nations should take part, and what the procedures should be, the U.S. has to heed any U.N. member with strong opinions on these points-and opinions abound in the U.N. Example: Prime Minister Nehru, as India's Delegate Arthur Lall reminded the U.S.'s U.N. delegation last week, wants to be invited to the conference, and to take part as a great power in any separate meetings of a Big Four, Five or Six. But, as Secretary Dulles pointed out in his press...
India's Nehru, initially pleased by Russia's invitation, was now less keen to participate at the risk of promoting Nasserism and looking like a Soviet stooge. France's Charles de Gaulle continued to play his lone hand in the grand manner. Unmoved by Anglo-American disapproval, unshaken by the fact that every other NATO nation opposed his position in an impassioned 5½-hour session of the NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering...
...President in an overall review of the Middle East situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world peace has reached a dangerous level," he wrote. "So much so that no time should be lost...
...Delhi there was real concern that India's neighbor Pakistan might have a revolution that would throw it into the arms of Nasser. "The time has come to re-evaluate and reassess our foreign policy," wrote Frank Moraes, biographer of Nehru and editor of the influential Indian Express newspaper chain. He referred to the danger to India from Communist China, which talks of "liberating Asia," and Communist influences on exuberant Arab nationalism. Enlarging on the dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest...
India recognized the new regime in Baghdad, but Prime Minister Nehru was repelled by the bloodthirsty manner in which it came to power. Nehru-who is no lover of Nasser-was reported disturbed by Nasser's maneuvers to cast his net over the entire Middle East, for the Middle East is India's lifeline to the West...