Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute over Goa, that pimple of Portuguese sovereignty on India's west coast, has been described by Jawaharlal Nehru as the "acid test" by which India judges other nations: any friend of India's must agree that Portugal should get out. Last week Goa became something of an acid test for India...
...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
Left pretty much to themselves by the cautious British Raj in the days of empire, the savage Nagas, many of whom are good pious Baptists, have long fiercely resented the fact that Nehru's government split their tribes into two camps and clamped one under the rule of New Delhi and the other under the state of Assam...
Sealed Off. Finally, Naga guerrillas, under the leadership of a former schoolteacher and insurance salesman named A. Z. Phizo, sharpened their native daos, collected an armory of ill-assorted and outdated British, U.S. and Japanese guns, and went to war, demanding complete independence. Jawaharlal Nehru, who likes to keep the skeletons in his own closet well hidden from the world, promptly sealed off the entire embattled area from the prying eyes of newsmen, both Indian and foreign, and dispatched 9,000 Indian troops to put down the trouble...
...Nehru's visit to Kashmir was meant to show that all Kashmir is delighted to be occupied by India. At Srinagar, Nehru set India's tone for the U.N. session: "The problem of Kashmir is: What right has Pakistan to be in this state? The answer to this problem is not a plebiscite." So much for Nehru's onetime promise to let the Kashmiris choose for themselves. Or, as Krishna Menon, seconding the boss, put it last week: "Our country has been invaded, and the invasion has to be vacated." Any talk of a U.N. force...