Word: nehru
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After two days of bitter debate in New Delhi's Lok Sabha, the Indian Parliament last week approved Prime Minister Nehru's decision to accept a neutralist proposal for the settlement of India's Himalayan border dispute with Red China-provided that the Chinese also agree to the neutrals' plan in toto. Under the arrangement devised by the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-at the Colombo Conference last December, the Chinese will be forced to withdraw 12½ miles from the present cease-fire line in the northwestern Himalayas...
Expecting at least a token condemnation of Chinese aggression from its old neutralist cronies, India was, to say the least, disappointed. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru received Mrs. Bandaranaike coolly after her ten-day sojourn in China, but did not reject her proposals outright. Nehru still hopes to gain time to build up his shattered armed forces. Too much delay, however, could try China's patience; still scratched on many buildings in the Himalayas is the ominous warning left by Chinese troops as they withdrew after last month's ceasefire: "We may have to return...
...Kashmir. India went to the United Nations for relief. In 1949 the U.N. demarcated a cease-fire line that gave India the richest two-thirds of Kashmir, including most of Ladakh, the Vale, and the predominantly Hindu area of Jammu. But India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had pledged that "the fate of Kashmir must ultimately be decided by its people." Declared Nehru: "We are prepared, when peace, law and order have been established, to have a referendum under some international auspices like...
...Nehru soon forgot that vow, for it became obvious that Kashmir would vote either for independence or accession to Pakistan. Indian Kashmir's Moslem ruler, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, an old friend of Nehru's and a fiery Kashmiri nationalist, confused things by starting to pro mote a local independence movement. India clapped Sheik Abdullah into jail in 1953 and introduced a series of repressive measures to halt other nationalist or pro-Pakistan movements. Except for three months in 1958, Sheik Abdullah has languished in prison ever since, was last week on trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow...
Galbraith has reportedly wanted to leave India since the Goa incident last year and has stayed on only at the personal request of President Kennedy. According to informed sources, Galbraith was badly discouraged by his inability to dissuade Indian Prime Minister Nehru from attacking the Portugese colony. By resigning from the University, the Ambassador would be forced to surrender his prestigious Warburg Chair...