Word: nehru
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Died. Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Home Minister of India since 1955 and a wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head...
Eighteen months have passed since Red Chinese troops occupied 12,000 square miles of northern Indian soil. The troops are still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...
...Nehru did little to calm the chamber. "Broadly speaking," he said, the Chinese had at least not advanced any farther, though "I cannot guarantee some little curve in a wasteland." He was pessimistic about new negotiations. But he had no plans to try to drive the Chinese out. "While I admire the patriotism, and emotional upsurge of honorable members who tell us to go and push the aggressor out ... it is not an easy matter to indulge in a policy of action that leads almost inevitably, step by step, to war." Nehru admitted that he had not even bothered...
Though he is known to be privately bitterly disillusioned by China's aggressiveness, Nehru's official tolerance for Red China seems unshakable. When one angry M.P. asked for at least "an assurance that we are no longer going to sponsor [Red China's] application in the United Nations," Nehru retorted: "I can give an assurance that we will...
...population; they are Hindu by religion and fearful that they will be relegated to second-class citizenship. Ceylon badly needs foreign investment, yet the Prime Minister backs a bill giving the government the right to expropriate all foreign oil property down to filling stations and trucks. She has urged Nehru to accept the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of "stateless" plantation workers originally imported from India, has simultaneously proposed a vindictive head tax on resident aliens, aimed chiefly at Indians. The government's flaming nationalism is reflected in Ceylon's increasingly neutral stand in the United Nations...