Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press, sorely annoyed the Ceylonese, and indelibly marked himself as durable headline material. What was Gluck's offense? He admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in secret session, that he could not pronounce the name of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal (Jah-wah-har-lahl) Nehru or rattle off the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister (Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike...
...neither Nehru nor Finance Minister Krishnamachari has been willing to scrap or revamp the second five-year plan. Last week Krishnamachari announced that he would make a visit to the U.S. next month. Nothing drastic would be done about the plan until he had tried his luck in Washington...
...East," i.e., neutral. He saw that there was no future in Nepalese politics without Indian backing, began insisting that India was Nepal's "best friend," and asked the Nepalese to be "more grateful" for Indian economic aid. He was invited to New Delhi and had a chat with Nehru. Nehru laconically concluded: "Not a Communist-just a freebooter...
...Premier. In office, Suhrawardy quickly shed his Nehru neutralism and his old Indian sympathies; instead, he supported Pakistan's membership in the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the British-sponsored .Baghdad Pact, won the plaudits of Moslem Firsters when the U.N. made its strongest-yet condemnation of Nehru on Kashmir. In the touchy situation after Suez, he spoke up firmly to doubting Moslems on behalf of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
Flying into Cairo with an escort of four Soviet-built Egyptian MIGs, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent five hours chatting with Egypt's fire-eating President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Presumed topic A: resumption of relations between Egypt and Great Britain. Middleman Nehru's neutralist comment after the confab: Anglo-Egyptian relations are "progressively returning to normal...