Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
Electioneering in the industrial city of Kanpur, Nehru explained the British and American U.N. vote to condemn India's seizure of Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) as simply a reward to Pakistan for its membership in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact. The intent, said Nehru, was "to make India change her independent policy." Then, amidst wild cheers, he cried defiantly: "India will not change her stand on Kashmir one iota under any threat...
...East against West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced, the U.S.-sponsored Baghdad Pact. He refused to sign a military-aid agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have...
...King. Many of his listeners in multilingual India, though they cheered and clapped mightily, could understand scarcely a word that he said in English or Hindi. Fastidiously avoiding all the local grass-roots issues for which he has no taste-the caste problem, anti-cow slaughter, communalism, astrology-Nehru explained the Kashmir issue and India's foreign policy to audience after audience of backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing...
...expensive neon lights, the Congress Party svmbol of two yoked oxen could be seen. Virtually helpless to fight against the incumbent party's steam roller, all the opposition could do was hope to build, as one of them put it, "a healthy opposition" against the day when Nehru will not be around...