Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba the only issue that inflamed the Sino-Soviet rivalry. Nehru reported that Moscow, after weeks of stalling, finally agreed to sell India MIG jet fighters, which might be used against invading Red Chinese troops. A Pravda editorial on Peking's border war with India carefully refused to take sides: if anything, Pravda leaned slightly toward India. "Bellicosity," tut-tutted the sweet voice of Moscow, is "foreign to the very spirit of a socialist state...
India rejoiced last week in two victories: the Chinese were thrown back in a local action on the embattled mountain border; former Defense Minister Krishna Menon, long a virulently anti-Western appeaser of Communism, was thrown out of Nehru's Cabinet...
Hunched & Silent. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who sees qualities in Menon invisible to others, was reluctant to fire his friend of 30 years. At first he tried to pacify critics by taking over the Defense Ministry himself and downgrading Menon to Minister of Defense Production. Nehru's task was not made any easier when Menon arrogantly told newsmen, "I am still a member of the Cabinet and still sitting in the Defense Ministry." Army officers, the press, politicians and delegations from Nehru's ruling Congress Party all joined in demanding that Menon...
...Nehru pleaded, accurately enough, that he too was responsible for India's defense policy failures. But at last he gave in. As Menon sat near by, hunched and silent, Nehru told a meeting of Congress Party M.P.s that he was accepting Menon's resignation from the Cabinet. The legislators cheered. Menon's defiant last words: "I still have a bright political future." No one believed...
...action against the Japanese in Burma during World War II and against the Pakistanis in 1948, Kaul also served as chief of staff of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission at the end of the Korean war, where he was accused of favoring the Communists. When he returned to India, Nehru jokingly asked, "Have you turned Red?'' Kaul, who insists that he took a completely neutral position in Korea, answered wryly...