Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the neutralists, India's Prime Minister Nehru told his Parliament: "I am not here to blame either party, but I beg and appeal to all the nuclear powers to refrain from these tests while the Geneva conference is on." Cairo's Algumhuria wrote: "As the world cried in panic from Soviet explosions in Moscow a year ago, it does cry in panic today from the Washington explosions...
...mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests as India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
Making Friends. The shadow of China for centuries has loomed over the Himalayas as a threat to its southern neighbors. But not until Red China's "peaceful liberation" of Tibet in 1950 did India worry much about Chinese designs on Indian territory. Said Nehru: "A border that had been dead has now become a live border." India tried to buy Red China off by championing its admission to the United Nations, opposed all U.N. attempts to condemn the Chinese for their conquest of Tibet. The feeble Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater...
...NORTH EAST FRONTIER AGENCY (pop. 450,000) is almost completely isolated from the rest of India. Though nominally part of the state of Assam, the rambling (31,000 sq. mi.) region is administered directly by the central government because Prime Minister Nehru wants to preserve its primeval aboriginal character. In some of N.E.F.A's valleys are nightmarish rain forests where animist tribesmen invoke among their deities a Dysentery God who, when angry, racks their guts with a quick but painful death...
...five years may well be too long. Nehru knows that he cannot push the Communist Chinese out of the territory they occupy without triggering a conflict that would force him to call in the Western allies to bail him out. But Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...