Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received Indian Ambassador G. L. Mehta to discuss next month's visit to this country of Prime Minister Nehru...
Trying to justify his tortuous foreign policy to the rest of the world, India's Prime Minister Nehru was already suffering embarrassment. But last week he ran into embarrassment of a different kind. When he tried to deliver an address to 50,000 students in Calcutta, his audience began yelling, pushing and shoving until Nehru finally threatened to leave. Eventually, he managed to finish his speech. But he had lived through one more eruption of one of India's most perplexing problems. In recent years, India's students and young people have become the nation...
...when Britain's Eden and France's Mollet put out feelers for a face-saving Washington summit conference, the White House was pointedly not listening. And when Swiss President Markus Feldmann proposed at week's end that the Big Four get together (with India's Nehru) in Switzerland, the President politely replied that the U.S. was conducting its crisis diplomacy through the U.N., and "I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carrying these initiatives to a successful conclusion...
India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who spent 14 of his 67 years in jail for his political beliefs, and entitled his autobiography Toward Freedom, was not clear about what was happening to freedom in Hungary. So he sent a note to Soviet Premier Bulganin and asked for the facts. Bulganin quickly obliged and Nehru thanked him in a pleasant message ("Your own country has taken a lead in the campaign for peace," but, "as you know, developments [in Hungary] have caused us much concern"). Then Nehru passed on the "facts" to his 377 million people...
What appears to have occurred in Hungary, Nehru explained to a Congress Party meeting in Calcutta, is an internal affair, civil conflicts on a rather large scale. "Much of the trouble occurred after Rus sian troops were withdrawn ... It was at this stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without...