Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should survive its present differences. It is, as Jawaharlal Nehru, who spent 23 years in and out of British jails, has observed, "an odd collection of nations which seems to prosper most in adversity...
...tariff-free British market for their exports would mean that Commonwealth nations would have to finance Britain's Common Market membership. Said he: "Clearly part of the initial price, and perhaps the final price, is to be paid by us!" Added India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: "I do not see how the Commonwealth will survive unless a radical change is made in the present proposals...
Indications are that when Nehru steps down, his Congress Party will nominate a straw man who resembles him as closely as possible. Likeliest candidate is Lai Bahadur Shastri, 58, Nehru's bland Home Minister, who, while probably equal to the job, lacks the personal dynamism to .#11 it permanently. Conservatives favor Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
...that post, Nehru is said to prefer Menon, the only one of his Cabinet colleagues he regards as his intellectual equal...