Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Scandinavia. Last week, as a sort of second best, B. and K. accepted an invitation to visit Finland in the spring. Cracked Khrushchev: "Spring is the best time of the year because love is then at its strongest." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was visiting India. Although Nehru pointedly spent more time in the company of another visitor, his old friend Lady Mountbatten, Zhukov had a profitable week riding an elephant and showing Nehru's tough Indian cadets how to use a bayonet...
That hissing sound heard round the world last week was Jawaharlal Nehru's reputation deflating...
...Britain Nehru has long occupied an exalted position in the political mythology. Tory governments looked to him for "expert" advice on Asian affairs, and told the U.S. that its Asian policy was ill advised for ignoring Nehru, Asia's only true spokesman. Left-wingers saw in Nehrunian "noncommitment" an idealistic answer to U.S. massive retaliation. British opinion began to change when Nehru's U.N. delegates regarded a discussion of Hungary as an unworthy diversion from the serious business of condemning the Suez invasion...
...Nehru's own defiance of a 10-to-0 Security Council resolution on Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) was the last straw. With one voice Britons of every political coloration last week proclaimed their disillusionment with Moralist Nehru. "It is shameful to remember that India is still a member of the Commonwealth," said the conservative weekly Time and Tide. "Willful stubbornness," snapped the Liberal News Chronicle. Even Nehru's favorite British publication, the shocking-pink New Statesman and Nation, abandoned its usual faithful praise of everything Indian to warn Nehru that he had "gravely impaired his influence...
...journalism, today is being outglittered by a new performer: the inquiring headline writer. On the theory that no question is too complex for a headline-and no answer too lame for the text-the quiz kid rose swiftly from keyhole-peeping sheets such as Confidential (WHAT WAS PRIME MINISTER NEHRU...