Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India was gripped by such a wave of articulate anti-Communist opinion that even Premier Nehru, World Neutralist No. 1, had to heed it. On the eve of his visit to Washington, Nehru still talked about a Communist thaw and a need to conciliate the Soviet Union, but he also had much kinder words for U.S. policy past and present, overflowing personal tributes for President Eisenhower and, most surprisingly, thoughts of stronger support for South Viet Nam's doughty anti-Communist President Ngo Dinh Diem, whom Nehru had once belittled as a U.S. puppet. "What good will...
Behind Dwight Eisenhower were the long, tiring campaign and the weeks of international strain. Ahead were the demands of rebuilding the Western alliance, a visit from India's Prime Minister Nehru, the inauguration ceremonies and the State of the Union message. In Augusta last week the President of the U.S. prepared for what lay ahead by relaxing from what lay behind...
Fear v. Love. Accompanied by his mother, two officials known as the Ministers of Tea and Butter, and the Panchen Lama, the young god-king proceeded across India, usually mounted on a pony-although once he rode an elephant together with Prime Minister Nehru. He was surrounded by a whirl of waving yellow prayer flags, burning incense and flower petals. Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims prostrated themselves before him. and when they could not reach his gown, they touched the hoofs of his pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like...
Special Program (Tues. 11:15 p.m., CBS, NBC). Speaker: Jawaharlal Nehru...
...which makes discrimination against untouchables a crime; in New Delhi. Himself an untouchable (and thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months ago Hindu Ambedkar renounced his caste-perpetuating religion, claimed it stood for "inequality and oppression," led 300,000 followers in a mass conversion to Buddhism...