Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India: Dropped in prestige, especially in Asia (where it wants to be the leader), because of Nehru's unwillingness to denounce a Communist bloodbath as quickly as Western misdeeds...
...opinion of Nehru Is practically zehru, And I could stand it, If we lost the Pandit...
...rose wearily from his teakwood parliamentary bench one morning last week, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in an unusual and unpleasant position. For the first time in years, the relative handful of Indian M.P.s who oppose Nehru were in a position to attack him where he prides himself most: in his role of high-minded overseer of other nations' misdeeds...
...over India, intellectual leaders were criticizing Nehru for hurling thunderous denunciations at Britain and France for their invasion of Egypt while expressing only mild concern over Soviet Russia's ruthless repression in Hungary. In a letter to the Times of India, Nehru's brother-in-law, Raja Hutheesing, put to the Prime Minister an unanswerable question: "Under what international law has the massacre of thousands of Hungarian people been termed by the Government of India ... a civil strife...
Slight Change. Worse yet, Nehru's stand on Hungary was turning world public opinion against him and his nation. Under the title Commonwealth Split, British Author A. P. Herbert wrote in Punch...