Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru Indian Ambassador to the United States, said last night that the Pakistani military machine has been destroyed. Only if the United States were to rearm Fakistan, claimed Nehru, would that country represent a threat to the Indian people...
...Nehru, Indian Ambassador to the U.S., will speak on Indian foreign policy tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The speech is sponsored by the Lowell House India Seminar, a group interested in reviving Indian studies at Harvard...
Pakistan reacted in fear in 1962 when the U.S. shipped India $200 million worth of tanks and planes to prevent the Chinese from nibbling the northeast frontier. Nehru promised that the arms would never be used against Pakistan, but a skirmish in the worthless Rann of Kutch swamplands proved that India would break her vow. The State Department quickly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor and filed the entire matter...
...American hands-off policy might stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...
...take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group of Red Chinese standing in front of a tablet commemorating Nehru's visit here in 1958. As anyone could see, the marker is clearly on the Indian side of the border...