Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors on a great stage and all the world is watching," Jawaharlal Nehru, eager to get out the vote for India's second general election, kept telling his audiences. But there were obstacles. In Uttar Pradesh the citizens of 14 villages hidden away in the foothills of the Himalayas decided, after listening to candidates, that voting was "just not worth the long walk." In the thick jungles of Orissa, the prevalence of stampeding wild elephants kept all but the most venturesome of the electorate at home. And at least one Orissan who dutifully set out for the polls never...
...more than 90 million ballots, some of which were still trickling in from the hills by muleback, would take India's election committees at least two weeks. But already Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party was clearly on its way to a landslide victory. In his own constituency near Allahabad, Nehru ran nearly 200,000 votes ahead of his opponent, an anti-cow-slaughter candidate whose program the pandit dismissed with the brief comment: "I like horses as much as cows...
Communists yesterday won control of an Indian state legislature for the first time. It was the hardest jolt to Prime Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party since the country became independent. The Reds scored their victory in Kerala, a new state established last fall on the tropical Malabar coast of southern India. Kerala's 13 1/2 million people are crammed 800 to the square mile, and unemployment is a perennial problem...
...anti-Western mood that Nehru was whipping up in India last week had all but undone any good that came out of the Eisenhower-Nehru meeting. British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald reported to London that Britain's standing in India is at a dangerously "low level." In fact, not all Indians apparently recognize at what point they are to check their criticism of Britain and the U.S. The Economic Review, official organ of Nehru's Congress Party, published two inflammatory editorials. The first suggested that the foreign policy of the Eisenhower Administration reflects the prevalence of juvenile delinquency...
...Economic Review's remarks whitened not one hair. But in Britain, which still resents the fact that Nehru raised more outcry over Suez than over Hungary, remarks about the Queen simply Will not do. NEHRU INSULT TO QUEEN, headlined the London Daily Mail. Hastily, Nehru condemned the article as "wholly intemperate." Said he: "I am greatly disturbed that the Queen's name should have been brought into this, and I should like to offer my apologies...