Word: nehru
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...Manhattan's The Premise has just opened a Washington outpost, where distinguished audiences (including, on occasion, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senators Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, "Scoop" Jackson) have been neighing in the aisles while a performer playing Mahatma Gandhi turns over slowly in his grave after Nehru tells him about Goa, or Chief Sun Cloud, a new Senator from Wyoming, calls up the admissions committee of the Cosmos Club and the committee chairman sighs. "If it isn't one thing, it's another...
...interpretation of the heavenly data which is a little easier on us rank and file predicts destruction only for the heads of state, the "kings." Nehru was publicly warned by a former chief minister of an Indian State to take extra precautions...
From then on, Menon took orders from no one else, even feuded with Nehru's powerful sister, Mme. Pandit, onetime Indian Ambassador to Russia, the U.S., and the U.N. On a visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths...
...China, though it is a curious stance for a vain Defense Minister. But Menon's critics counter that defending Indian territory against further Red conquests need not lead to war. Trouble is that Menon has neglected to build up India's border defenses. While he and Nehru refuse to give details to Parliament, on the ground that such information would be useful to the Chinese, one fact is clear: north India's population centers are far closer to the frontier than Red China's big cities, but the Chinese have built more roads to the Himalayan...
...Economic Issue. Menon has no direct responsibility for India's economy, but his political opponents in the campaign point out accurately that his ideas strongly influence Nehru. They are both old-school, doctrinaire socialists of the 1930s variety, and both insist, against considerable evidence, that all the world is inevitably turning to socialism. They refuse to recognize that all the older socialist parties of the free world have abandoned the rigid formulas since World War II, and that the greatest progress has been achieved (in Germany, Western Europe, Japan) by relatively free enterprise. Of that progress Menon says scornfully...