Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years Jawaharlal Nehru had steadfastly refused to visit the home of his ancestors-the lovely, lake-filled Vale of Kashmir. Last week, as 80,000 Kashmiris pelted him with flowers and delighted schoolchildren piped, "Hooray for Uncle Nehru," India's Prime Minister once again rode through the streets of Srinagar...
...curious Kashmiri newsmen Nehru frankly explained his long avoidance of Kashmir: he had for a long time been "pained and hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact...
Soothing Chat. Nehru's first task was to deal with an embarrassing split in the puppet Kashmiri government headed by ironfisted Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed. Seventeen of Kashmir's leading Communist-line politicians last week resigned from Bakshi's National Conference party, making charges of governmental corruption and repression in Indian Kashmir. If they continued to howl, their charges might carry all the way to the U.N., even provoke questions as to why Bakshi had knowingly tolerated such proCommunists in his government for so long. Determined to avoid this if possible, Nehru chatted soothingly with the rebels, quietly...
...unmobilized resources could chew (TIME, Aug. 5), resourceful Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari has been doing his best to 1) reduce the scope of the plan itself, and 2) attract the foreign capital, government or private, that the country needs to keep going. Three weeks ago, while Nehru was still diligently distilling euphoria from the plan's prospects...
...question is whether India has waited too long to change its tune. Nehru's request for ?200 million was turned aside by Britain during the last Commonwealth Conference in June. The British advised Nehru to try private capital, but private capital is showing itself understandably reluctant about investing in what appears to be a highly unpredictable economy. Besides, private investors are a little uncertain as to the extent and fervor of Indians socialist ambitions. Russia recently agreed to lend India $126 million, reportedly might cough up another $25 million, which would not be much help...