Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice sounded paper thin, raising every head in India's Parliament. "May I speak sitting, sir?" asked Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of Mr. Speaker. Still feeble as a result of last January's stroke, Nehru slumped in his seat, delivered a 40-minute address, his first major talk since the illness. With refreshing candor, he took his countrymen to task for consistently blaming India's problems on others. "Our publicity abroad suffers very much from self-righteousness," he said. "We are not free from wrongdoing. The result is that even many of the truthful things...
...Tour. With a jovial Johnson ushering them, the whole gang trooped around the South Lawn. One visitor told the President that he was a student from India. Lyndon inquired in the manner of a solicitous relative: "Is Mr. Nehru getting any better?" To a Canadian, the President commented: "I enjoyed my visit with your Prime Minister so much. Matter of fact, I just talked on the phone with him last week." To a Filipina girl, he said: "We've got our Secretary of State out in the Philippines right...
...India's leaders, the man who might best have induced Hindu and Moslem to live peacefully together is one of Nehru's old comrades-in-arms, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir. Despite Kashmir's overwhelmingly Moslem population, Sheik Abdullah believed that it was in his border state's best interest to accede to India rather than to Pakistan after the 1947 partition, and he won Nehru's solemn promise that the people of Kashmir would be permitted free elections to determine their own future-accession to Pakistan or India, or independence...
...sheik was Kashmir's first Prime Minister, and might still be in office if the Indian government had not suddenly clapped him in jail in 1953. Nehru, who is himself of Kashmiri origin, caged the Lion for his belief that India must honor its longstanding pledge to allow self-determination for Kashmir. Save for 112 days of freedom in 1958-he was rearrested when his views proved as strong as ever-the stubborn sheik has been in jail ever since...
Last week Kashmir's new Prime Minister, Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, announced that Sheik Abdullah, 58, would be released and that all political conspiracy charges against him had been dropped. Sadiq's move, aimed at easing religious and political tensions in the state, caught New Delhi unawares. Nehru's deputy and heir apparent, Lai Bahadur Shastri, could only stammer in answer to questions in Parliament that "as far as we know, it will be an unconditional release...