Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 100,000 partygoers jammed into New Delhi's National Stadium to wish a happy 68th birthday to India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Thousands of schoolchildren sang and danced, released a squadron of white peace doves, and squealed their delight to smiling Chacha (Uncle) while he tossed them scores of marigold garlands...
Folks who have wondered how neutral a neutralist can get got an ultimate answer from India's Jawaharlal Nehru. In a fantastic bit of purblind observation, the Great Neutral assured a worried world: "People who talk about Communist revolutions are-if I may say so-out of date. So-called international Communism does not really exist today...
...agreement, even by delegates from socialist-minded nations, that private enterprise should and could shoulder an increasing share of the burden. The most dramatic evidence of renewed faith in free enterprise came from Reserve Bank of India Governor H. V. R. Iengar, close friend and adviser to Prime Minister Nehru. Disavowing the tepid brand of socialism long preached by Nehru, Iengar emphasized that India is looking to private capital and free enterprise to develop its resources and industrialize the nation...
Acheson also stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...
Being Practical. Notably absent from the peace conference was Guerrilla Chief Phizo, whose ill-clad, ill-fed, weary and malaria-ridden troops were reported reduced to a mere 1,000. The agreement with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept...