Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheduled departure for India until this week-and to reduce her visit from 22 days to 14. There was no lack of speculation in Washington and New Delhi that Jackie's sinus condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique at an intransigent Nehru. The First Lady had ridden to hounds a fortnight ago at her Virginia estate, and last week went water-skiing off Palm Beach while her husband watched from the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. But the fact remained: Jackie had been examined by White House Physician Janet Travell and a specialist...
...third and biggest election (14,744 candidates, 126 million voters) since independence last week brought slightly tarnished but undisputed victory for the ruling Congress Party, dismaying defeat for the nation's young, non-Communist opposition, and a heady new mandate for the neutralist policies of Prime Minister Nehru and the leftist views of Defense Minister Krishna Menon, which are coming to be known as Menonism. Main results...
...Nehru's Congress Party lost strength in all but two of the twelve state legislatures involved in the elections, and lost its majority in the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In the Lok Sabhal (lower house of Parliament), it lost at least 25 seats. But the final count will give Congress about 350 (out of a 494 total). With control of the only vigorous nationwide machine, Congress retains overwhelming political dominance...
...Swatantra Party, which campaigned for free enterprise and was slandered as "fascist" by Nehru, won more state legislature seats (159) than any other party, but its strength was largely limited to three conservative states, Bihar, Gujerat and Rajasthan, where the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...
...less conservative neutralist nations, however, particularly those in Africa, was the major influence on the Indian policy change. By the time India had dispatched the largest single force to Katanga in 1960, "it had become apparent that the era of colonialism might not be quite so dead as Nehru had once suggested...