Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First draft of the manifesto was purposely vague, endorsing such policies as "social control of the banks"-a phrase that might or might not mean nationalization. At any rate, the platform contained enough of the doctrinaire socialism of Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, to please the leftists without alienating the free-enterprisers. In the interest of unity, even fiery old Krishna Menon, leader of the left wing, who normally might be expected to be quarrelsome, went along with the leadership, cooed happily over the document: "This is a socialist manifesto...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite looks at "Nehru: Man of Two Worlds," his background, schooling, return to India and his efforts in the struggle for world peace. Repeat...
...languages, and diverse religions, India has managed to establish a firm Democracy against all the Western prerequisites for freedom, Sivasithamparam said. "In the beginning there were skeptics who insisted that our Democratic government was held together by a charismatic leader, Ghandi, but India has proved time and again with Nehru, Shastri, and Mrs. Ghandi that it will continue to find great leaders a-plenty," he noted...
...seven months as India's Prime Minister has looked with clear eyes toward the West, has been under increasing criticism at home for supposedly deserting her father's socialist, nonaligned principles. Thus it was an ideal time to emphasize the family principles by revisiting some of Jawaharlal Nehru's old haunts...
When World War II ended, most non-Communist nations began dismantling the intricate economic controls that had been necessary to cope with the military emergency. India was a major excep tion, for tight regulation of the economy fitted neatly into Jawaharlal Nehru's doc trinaire socialist blueprint for his newly independent nation. Many of the con trols on business survive to this day, and they are charged with retarding In dia's growth in the past two decades...