Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than four years the most obvious flaw in the shining moral armor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru has been the case of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) "Lion of Kashmir." Since August 1953 Abdullah has been held a prisoner without trial. His only crime: he pursued policies in Kashmir that were unacceptable to India's Prime Minister...
...Union Jacks fluttering over India's capital in festive display for the first time since the British Raj moved out in 1947. Out at the airport to greet the only British Prime Minister ever to visit India while in office was an array of notables headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and backed up by thousands of cheering citizens...
...before placing a wreath on Mahatma Gandhi's shrine, ceremonially visited the spot from which British forces launched their final assault on Old Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. But the bulk of Macmillan's time was taken up in political discussion. In repeated talks with Nehru, he got an earful of Indian ideas on the necessity for nuclear disarmament and the desirability of a new summit meeting. At a banquet in Macmillan's honor, Neutralist Nehru warmly praised the British Prime Minister for his tentative endorsement a fortnight ago of an East-West nonaggression pact...
...Once Nehru found use for the Lion. Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
...Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru agreeably surprised a group of 36 world-touring newsmen by publicly criticizing Communism. Said Nehru: "I am unconcerned with Communist economics, but politically I dislike it for two reasons. Firstly, it tends too easily to violence and I am against violence. Secondly, Communism has not shown the regard for standards that I should like to see observed...