Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...
Shifting Middle. Though the final communiqué was the more moderate for Nehru's efforts, it was a woeful performance for the band of statesmen who had swept into Belgrade to render self-proclaimed moral guidance in the cold war. President Dorticós of Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism...
...neutrals' decision to send their message to Khrushchev by both Nkrumah and Nehru threw Moscow into turmoil. Flags and banners welcoming Nehru were hastily torn down when the Russians learned that Nkrumah would arrive first in his Ghana Airways jet. The Russians then worked furiously to get them all back up again for Nehru's arrival a bare 50 minutes later. Nkrumah himself was discreetly spirited away from the airport in a Bentley so as not to intrude upon Nehru's red-carpet welcome by Khrushchev, and he stayed in Moscow only long enough to join Nehru...
...Nehru had any hopes of reining in Khrushchev's recklessness over Berlin or persuading him to stop his nuclear tests, they were soon blasted. He came from Belgrade, he told Khrushchev, to express "the minds of hundreds of millions of people" and their hopes that "the great powers who hold the key to war and peace will remove the threat of war and lead the world to peace." The Russian people have yet to be told that Khrushchev has actually begun testing, and Nehru tactfully avoided mentioning the fact. But his tact earned him nothing. Khrushchev, hacking away...
...Nehru came out of his talks with Khrushchev clearly disheartened, warned that the "foul winds of war are blowing" (see THE NATION). But at an Indian embassy luncheon for Nikita, Nehru was more cheerful, back at the old neutralist two-way stand doing business as usual. Thanking the Soviet government for its economic aid to India in a toast, Nehru quipped: "I am afraid that after we receive this assistance, my appetite will grow and I will want to ask for more...