Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington National Airport this week, an ear-tingling ig-gun salute heralded the arrival of the man who fitfully straddles the chasm between the Soviet's open cynicism and the Western world's open hand. Jawaharlal Nehru, idolized leader of India's millions and to many minds the spokesman for the yearnings (as well as fiery passions) of most Asians and Africans, had come at Dwight Eisenbower's invitation for his first visit to the U.S. since...
Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
What was there to talk about? At nearly every stop in the 8,000-mile route from New Delhi to Washington, Nehru had been willing to hint at what was on his mind, e.g., bad relations between the U.S. and Peking, India's economic needs, mistrust of the U.S.-endorsed Baghdad Pact, the Suez Canal, colonialism...
...Nehru's visit had originally been planned for last summer but was postponed because of Ike's ileitis operation. Many a Washingtonian thought the new timing a good thing. For Nehru, who in the past has been tempted to juggle a diplomatic double standard of conduct, has come to Washington with the refreshed understanding that U.S. policy countenances no double standard...
Accompanying the widowed Nehru: his daughter, slim, somber-eyed Indira Gandhi, 39, mother of two sons, who acts as India's first lady. A political name in her own right, she is a member of the topflight working committee of India's big Congress Party, and only woman member -by an overwhelming vote-of the party...