Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's foreign visitors to Washington have left behind so many favorable impressions as Indonesia's President Sukarno (TIME, May 28). On the next leg of his world tour, Sukarno turned his steps toward Moscow. Said Sukarno, no Red but Asia's top neutralist after Nehru: "I am not going to the Communist countries to seek a state of mind. I already know the Marxist state of mind. I am going to see whether or not they have carried out their ideals...
...first flush of nationalism, India declared in its 1949 constitution that Hindi would become the national language by 1965. It would be, Jawaharlal Nehru declared, "the great unifier." English was to be "phased...
Last week, speaking before the states' education ministers, Nehru reversed his ground. English, he said, would be retained in the Indian educational system as the major language for an "indefinite" period. Added he: "Manpower for industrial, scientific and agricultural purposes cannot be trained in any Indian language in the foreseeable future...
...warm, top-drawer greeting as a platoon of Cabinet ministers, a horde of judges and a mass of minor officials swarmed at the airport under a broiling sun and presented the visitors with six bouquets of flowers and batches of garlands. It was a command performance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been shown a dispatch printed in a U.S. newspaper reporting the cool kiss-off the Warrens had gotten when they arrived...
Bombay, and had the red carpet rolled out. Later, Nehru greeted Warren at a reception and, diplomatically, they were both all smiles...