Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former ambassador to India predicted that Lal Bahadur Shastri will be elected "within the next couple of days, and that will be that." Shastri is minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, who died Wednesday of a heart attack...
Galbraith ridiculed the notion that only Nehru's personal magnetism could hold the Congress Party--and India--together. Western fears of political turmoil, said Galbraith, are "a tribute to the popular tendency to absorb the most powerful cliche...
Shastri himself "is by no means as conversant with international affairs as Nebru," said Rudolph, "and he can be expected to follow the main lines of Nehru's policies: friendliness with both Russia and the United States, and strong preparedness against China...
...first time since he suffered a stroke last January, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru left New Delhi and flew to Gandak to meet Mahendra, who is still more fearful of the Indian giant than the Chinese. As late as 1962, Nehru looked the other way while Indian-based Nepalese exiles staged guerrilla raids against Mahendra's kingdom. It took the Himalayan war with Red China to awaken Nehru to the danger in the north. Since then, India has not only restrained Nepalese guerrillas but has also pledged $18.4 million-far more than Peking has given-for Mahendra's current...
...Gandak, Mahendra made it clear that he intends to be treated as an equal and not a dependent. He told Nehru and a crowd of 100,000 Indians that friendship "on the basis of parity" can only be "mutually beneficial." Next week King Mahendra plans to make a state visit to West Germany, which is discussing several possible aid projects for Nepal; on his way home, he will stop off in Pakistan for talks with President Ayub Khan. Mahendra, who calls his policy one of strict nonalignment, claims that his Foreign Minister Tulsi Giri actually invented the word. Be that...