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...Panic. Inevitably, some pundits and politicos saw everything according to their own lights. A newspaper in Beirut had a familiar Arab reaction: "We consider that the dispute between the two blocs is a blessing to us. They could reach agreement only at our expense." And India's Jawaharlal Nehru characteristically declined to blame the summit breakdown on anyone ("All that I can do, first of all, is not get too excited"), but Indians in general only hoped that Russia was not now going to match Red China in bellicosity...
Macmillan. he demanded: "What about the Netting Hill troubles here?" India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, displaying considerable restraint, tried to reason with Louw. So did Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had precipitated a crisis by walking out on a meeting with Louw during the first week of the conference. Even Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, originally sympathetic to Louw's problems, gave up in the face of his intransigence. At a meeting of London's South Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with...
...Nehru's reasoning, the rioting Vidarbhans should have been overjoyed at being included in Maharashtra, since they speak the Marathi tongue. But Vidarbhans had another grievance. They have a thriving cotton and textile economy, fear they will be exploited in taxation and neglected in appropriations unless they can have their own state, separate from both Maharashtra and Gujarat...
...week's end few Indian officials gave Vidarbha much chance of becoming a reality, though Nehru's study commission had recognized that the section had its own identity and could probably make a self-sustaining state. But having once opened the lid of the Pandora's box of separatism, Nehru clearly faced a continuing fight getting it shut again...
...seen hunger himself. After an apprenticeship as a reporter, he plunged into the rough-and-tumble of Bombay politics, was the city's undisputed political boss for years before he ran for mayor and won. He had nothing in common with Brahmin aristocrats such as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Three years ago, when Nehru finally named Patil to the cabinet, it was with reluctance. But within weeks of taking over the Food and Agriculture Ministry last August, Patil devised a daring solution to India's chronic food crisis. Nehru was half-hearted about the plan, Patil...