Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proof quickly came that Stevenson's fears were well grounded. In Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced...
Faced with the prospect of U.N. withdrawal from the Congo, almost all were suddenly sobered. A major factor was the conversion of India's Prime Minister Nehru, who had refused to send a single soldier to fight in Korea; since then Nehru has seen the Red Chinese in action in Tibet and elbowing at his own frontiers...
...devour the output of 40 million of India's 300 million cultivated acres. "Man eats cows in other countries, but here the cow is eating man," says a Congress party leader. But he says it in private. Calling for more money for more rest homes for old cows, Nehru himself says: "The West does not worship the cow but takes care of it. We worship it but do not take care...
Seized by one of his periodic fits of yearning for a life of contemplation, India's normally bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 71, indiscreetly confided to a British newsman that it would be "best if I retired-best for me and best for India." So many cries of protest flooded into New Delhi from all over India that the wily Prime Minister was forced to correct the record: "There is no thought in my mind at present or in the foreseeable future of my retiring, so there need be no speculation about...
...Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India in 1911 soon after his coronation. Somewhat unnecessarily, Prime Minister Nehru called on his nation to welcome Elizabeth warmly-but allowed that should she decide to go tiger hunting, "I am not going with...