Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was once willing to negotiate the frontier wrangle, he has now come to believe that compromise on his part would lead to new Chinese incursions. Recently, India curtly refused China's offer to arbitrate the border difference unless the Chinese first withdrew from the more than 14.000 square miles of Indian territory they occupy. Replied Peking: "No force in the world could oblige us to withdraw...
...Nehru fortnight ago appointed Lieut. General B. M. Kaul, 50. to act as "Commander of the Special Task Force to Intensify Operations Against the Chinese Intruders." A tough, Sandhurst-educated antiCommunist, Kaul was placed on indefinite leave last August after he questioned Defense Minister Krishna Menon's appeasement policy toward Red China. Kaul's new assignment from Nehru: ''To free our territory in the northeast frontier." Said Nehru at week's end: India's forces are "strongly positioned and in a large number operating from higher ground than the Chinese...
...search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...
...finely worded doctrines, charters, manifestoes and reports have only served to implement Mr. K.'s inch-by-inch plan for conquest. If Mr. Kennedy doubts this, then let him inquire of Nehru how fast-and easily-a border can disappear...
...vituperative oratory in favor of low-keyed logical argument, has often clashed in the U.N. with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with the British, won sneering acclaim as "Britain's favorite Indian...