Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encumber themselves with rules or bylaws. But last week, as the leaders of ten nations assembled in London for the ninth Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference since World War II (see cut), the ties that bind the Commonwealth were under greater strain than ever before. Said India's Nehru bluntly: "Whether or not it is mentioned in polite society, the Commonwealth is facing difficult basic problems, and some people begin to doubt whether the Commonwealth is becoming too vague to be identified as anything...
Foremost among the problems Nehru had in mind was the recent near-revolt of South Africa's blacks against apartheid. With Nigeria and Sierra Leone slated for early independence, this may be the last Commonwealth meeting at which there are as many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
When Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1953 created India's first state with linguistic boundaries, setting a precedent for the big boundary reshuffle of 1956, many Indians objected that language was not the only basis on which to establish a community of interest. They felt that Nehru risked encouraging a chain reaction of fragmentation, with different sections demanding statehood on any convenient pretext just when India most needed to find unity in its bewildering diversity...
...Nehru's reasoning, the rioting Vidarbhans should have been overjoyed at being included in Maharashtra, since they speak the Marathi tongue. But Vidarbhans had another grievance. They have a thriving cotton and textile economy, fear they will be exploited in taxation and neglected in appropriations unless they can have their own state, separate from both Maharashtra and Gujarat...
...facts-or the set of what he considers facts-and our set of facts are basically different." Hearing of Nehru's criticism,Chou, in obvious anger, called a press conference, huffed: "This is not the right way to treat a guest. It was unfriendly. I did not go to Delhi to be called an aggressor...