Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the U.S., the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, a longtime Nehru admirer, cabled a bitter protest at India's stand. Nervously, Nehru's own Foreign Office warned him that by equivocating on Hungary he was jeopardizing his position in the Asian bloc, and reducing the likelihood that any profit would come out of his forthcoming trip...
...strength of this wave of criticism, the Socialist Opposition in Parliament demanded a debate on India's foreign policy. Opening the two-day debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
Unique Capacity. This was the sharpest attack on Russia that Nehru has made, and next day the Times of India happily hailed it with the headline, EMOTIONAL BIAS IN FOREIGN POLICY GIVEN UP. In cold fact, the praise was only partly earned. For every admission of Russian guilt that Nehru made, there was an offsetting reference to Anglo-French guilt in Egypt. At least once Nehru seemed to imply that the invasion of Egypt was morally worse, saying: "There was no immediate aggression [in Hungary] as there was in the case of Egypt...
...Nehru's new line seemed to satisfy most Indians. Nehru, said one Socialist, had taken three steps forward and two back, but the important thing was that one step had been gained. Outside India, it was hard to see how so small and belated a step forward warranted much enthusiasm...
...ruled Tibet, was permitted to venture outside the Bamboo Curtain for the first time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...