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...encumber themselves with rules or bylaws. But last week, as the leaders of ten nations assembled in London for the ninth Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference since World War II (see cut), the ties that bind the Commonwealth were under greater strain than ever before. Said India's Nehru bluntly: "Whether or not it is mentioned in polite society, the Commonwealth is facing difficult basic problems, and some people begin to doubt whether the Commonwealth is becoming too vague to be identified as anything...
Foremost among the problems Nehru had in mind was the recent near-revolt of South Africa's blacks against apartheid. With Nigeria and Sierra Leone slated for early independence, this may be the last Commonwealth meeting at which there are as many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
When Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1953 created India's first state with linguistic boundaries, setting a precedent for the big boundary reshuffle of 1956, many Indians objected that language was not the only basis on which to establish a community of interest. They felt that Nehru risked encouraging a chain reaction of fragmentation, with different sections demanding statehood on any convenient pretext just when India most needed to find unity in its bewildering diversity...
...AFFAIRS), Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was still inwardly seething at the chilly treatment he had received in New Delhi, where neither his charm nor his bullying had produced concessions by the Indians on the prickly frontier squabble. In Parliament, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru defended Chou's visit but minced no words. "The only alternative was to sit and curse like an old woman, or go to war." His talks with Chou, he said, had foundered on "a rock of entirely different sets of facts...
...facts-or the set of what he considers facts-and our set of facts are basically different." Hearing of Nehru's criticism,Chou, in obvious anger, called a press conference, huffed: "This is not the right way to treat a guest. It was unfriendly. I did not go to Delhi to be called an aggressor...