Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think Chaliapin's Dec. 14 Nehru cover is one of the most arresting that I have seen on TIME...
...only Nehru at a crossroads, but man's regretful realization that love does not conquer all and that an occasional display of naked power is required...
...Once again you have succeeded in painting Nehru and India in the darkest possible colors. You also failed to stress one significant point: India and Nehru are firmly holding on to the principles of freedom that free men all over the world respect. And that is why Nehru and his nation represent the best bet for democracy's survival in Asia today...
...moment of profoundest meaning came at an outdoor "civic reception" in New Delhi. When Ike, with Nehru, stepped up to the speaker's stand, he blinked and shook his head in astonishment; the crowd reached farther than eye could see. In neutralist India, Eisenhower invoked the memory of India's saint, implied that Gandhi himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense?our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense?would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld...
...Privacy, More Urgency. In his talks with the leaders of the nations he visited, the President aimed at no t-crossing, i-dotting agreements. None were needed. Reported New York Timesman Paul Grimes from New Delhi after Ike's departure: "It did not seem to matter much whether Mr. Nehru had actually requested or been given a guarantee that the U.S. would help India to meet further Chinese Communist aggression. What mattered was the obvious strengthening of Indian-American friendship to a point where no such guarantee was necessary." In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office...