Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...letter to President Eisenhower-already thoroughly trumpeted on the world's radio -from the Kremlin's Nikita Khrushchev. Its purpose: the U.S.S.R. proposed that the U.S.S.R.'s Khrushchev, the U.S.'s Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold get together at Geneva-or "any venue, including Washington"-this very week to discuss "the military invasion of the Lebanon and Jordan by the U.S.A. and Great Britain...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. At week's end Nikita Khrushchev played his trump, proposed an emergency big-name conference in Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history...
...school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
India and Indonesia both formally demanded that the U.S. withdraw its marines. So did Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (a visitor in Canada last week) who has an Egyptian bride and recently visited Egypt, but is determined not to let Nasser dominate Africa. India's Nehru, so slow to condemn Soviet intervention in Budapest, but now disturbed by Communist gains in India, mildly condemned the U.S. The fall of Iraq, diminishing the Baghdad Pact, hurts Pakistan, and therefore pleases India...