Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi, home minister Gulzarilal Nanda was sworn in as the new prime minister, a job he held briefly after the death of Nehru a year-and-a-half...
...averred World Citizen Garry, Davis, 44, two years after he gave up his U.S. passport in 1948 to found his cult of statelessness and world unity. Now, long after the crusades in which he enlisted Albert Camus and André Gide into Les Compagnons de Garry Davis, issued Jawaharlal Nehru one of his "world passports" and transformed himself temporarily from a freak into something of a world figure, Davis is living in Strasbourg, France. The son of U.S. Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, he is still nobody's citizen, but he has a wife, two children, and he keeps body...
...opposed to administration tactics on Vietnam, the civil rights bill, and the wheat sale to Russia. "He seemed to have faded astonishingly into the background and appeared almost a spectral presence at meetings in the Cabinet Room." His Chester Bowles "dissipated his authority by diffusing his energy." His Nehru is a tired, tedious old man. There are also a surprising number of critical passages about Kennedy, some of them of un-expected bluntness...
...Nehru told his audience in the Lowell House Junior Common Room that the India-Pakistan dispute was the result of a Pakistani "psychosis" -- an irrational fear of a larger and more advanced India...
China opposes India, he said, because the Indian government is attempting to eliminate poverty by democratic rather than methods. External pressure by the Chinese forces India to divert poverty funds for the military effort, Nehru explained...