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...called on India's Nehru, and while in New Delhi, had a long talk with roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, who said later: "He thinks he is the man of the hour." Souvanna may be right. Last week British Foreign Secretary Lord Home rushed back from the SEATO meeting in Bangkok to have dinner with him in London. In Paris, Souvanna conferred with De Gaulle and awaited a call to Moscow-even as Khrushchev was grumpily wondering aloud to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson why "Souvanna doesn't go home where he can do some good," a thought that...
...Absolutely Serious." Behind the veil of quiet diplomacy, the President opened a second front-trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues...
Round the green baize table in London's mirrored Lancaster House, Nkrumah. India's Nehru and Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa backed a proposal of Canada's Diefenbaker: they agreed not to press for a showdown on apartheid, provided that a communique permitted them to spell out. in general terms, their feelings about Verwoerd's racial policies...
Pale and weary, Macmillan reported to Parliament his "deep regret" at the split. But in Britain and abroad, South Africa's exit was the occasion for (as Nehru put it) "relief, not elation." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman stated the view of the Afro-Asians: "No man, because of his color, should be regarded as an outcast. We of the Commonwealth have proclaimed our stand to the world." The London Times saw the Commonwealth as now on "a secure multiracial basis," and the Guardian stated bluntly: "An unhealthy limb has been removed...
Died. Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Home Minister of India since 1955 and a wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head...