Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggression. By January 1949, the U.N. succeeded in drawing a cease-fire line that gave a third of Kashmir to Pakistan and twothirds to India. Four times since, the U.N. has ordered that a plebiscite be held to determine the wishes of the people of Kashmir. Though Jawaharlal Nehru once vowed to "abide by the will of the Kashmiri people," India has always found reasons to avoid holding the referendum. Ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon has bluntly explained why India opposes the plebiscite: "Because we would lose it." The popular Moslem leader, Sheik Abdullah, first supported union with India. When...
...Nehru's Heart. Everything about the Kashmir problem is deeply emotional. The land itself produces little but scenery. Kashmir's mountain rim is so impenetrable that there is only one year-round road to the outside world?and it goes to Pakistan. Nehru was determined to keep Kashmir because it was his ancestral home and, as he put it, "a piece of my heart...
...horrified to "learn" that Nehru "could barely speak Hindi." Nehru could speak Hindi as barely as Winston Churchill could speak English...
...Please accept my congratulations. It is good that you have neither spared criticism nor yielded to any temptation to exaggerate some of our minor successes. I must, however, disagree with your statement: "India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned." After the death of a dynamic Prime Minister or President, it is not unusual for a country to feel orphaned and disillusioned for a short time. But there has been a tremendous release of pent-up energy in India that will carry it forward for years, and the cause will find its leader. A temporary food shortage and a border invasion...
...perhaps his strongest move since assuming power, Shastri ordered a cut back in the grandiose industrial scheme laid out by Nehru, snatched away the styluses from New Delhi's army of blue printing planners, and cranked up a crash program of agricultural aid. Though industrial projects already un der way ($5 billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been...