Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without being thrown out of the tearoom. Indian newspapers fumed that the Federation permit "is in itself an act of racial discrimination. No self-respecting country can allow its envoys to go about demanding civilized treatment on the strength of such chits of paper." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself seemed equally unsatisfied to accept apologies as a substitute for immediate and constructive action. Last week he told his Parliament that India will break diplomatic relations with the Federation unless discrimination comes...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, whose gallery of heroes runs from Gandhi to Lenin, sanctioned nationwide celebrations on April 9, birthday of a Red-lining favorite: Actor-Baritone Paul Robeson, 59. Said Nehru of Robeson (who has been denied a U.S. passport since 1950) : "He has represented and suffered for a cause which should be dear to all of us-the cause of human dignity...
...India nearly every political discussion sooner or later ends in the same question: Who will take over when 68-year-old Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru passes from the scene? Last week Indians got a strong hint on how Nehru himself proposes to answer the question. To replace hapless T. T. Krishnamachari, forced out of office by a scandal over government misuse of insurance funds (TIME, March 3), Nehru chose as his Finance Minister 62-year-old Morarji Desai, who was Minister of Commerce and Industry...
...devotion to Gandhian principle is almost autocratic. As Bombay's Chief Minister, he decreed that all schoolchildren must use cheap penholders so that those too poor to afford fountain pens would not suffer from a sense of inferiority. Despite Nehru's objections, he saddled Bombay with a prohibition law that has cut deeply into government revenues, turned bootlegging into big business. To charges that he was arbitrarily imposing his own standards of morality on his fellow citizens, he replied: "I am not trying to reform anybody. I am merely trying to remove temptation...
...years ago, when the Gujarati community of Ahmedabad rioted against Nehru's plan to submerge them in a huge, new state dominated by the Marathas, Desai-a Gujarati himself-first tried to shame the rioters into submission by staging a public fast in the Gandhian tradition. When that failed, Desai ordered the police into action. They opened fire on the mobs, injuring at least 100 people...