Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru "liberates" while the rest of the world calls the action "armed aggression." Who shall this "pacifist" next "save" . . . Pakistan...
...from too much publicity. But despite all her parents' efforts, Caroline is a real Kennedy: she makes news. She came clutching her mother's shoes into a presidential press conference at Palm Beach. Carefully rehearsed, she was on hand to proffer a fresh rose to an enchanted Nehru at Newport. Once, Kennedy had to break off a TV filming to go and wipe Caroline's offstage tears ("Who's crying in this house?" he demanded). Again the President of the U.S., spending a weekend at Glen Ora, was heard to say impatiently: "Hurry up, Caroline...
...Elections." Despite the overwhelming popularity in India of Nehru's Goan "conquest," and for all the economic benefits that it will reap from the former Portuguese colony, a few rumbles of discontent arose last week over India's resort to force. They came from a respected source: venerable Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 82, leader of the conservative Freedom Party, close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and the only Indian to serve as Governor General of his country...
...Freedom Party's organ, Swarajya Rajagopalachari assailed India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "this claptrap Goa action. No cartoon can do full justice to the contradictions of our international peace policy arising out of Mr. Nehru's action. India has helped undermine the prestige and power of the U.N. Security Council. India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power." India, continued Rajagopalachari, had claimed that its action was based on anticolonialist grounds, yet had courted a Soviet veto of the U.N. request for a cease-fire even...
...Nehru shrugged off the criticism. At a press conference he rejected a purely academic suggestion that India pull out of Goa. said: "There would be hell in the world if this happened." He also temporized on the question of Red China, hedged on whether he would demand that the Red Chinese withdraw from the 14,000 square miles of Indian territory that they occupy. Nehru publicly thanked Nikita Khrushchev for his understanding of the "motives and ideas" behind the Indian invasion, said that he deplored the Western condemnation of the action. "I do not like this division of opinion...