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...Connecticut. Many veterans of the clerical army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding of Nehru's neutrality?which was highly unpopular in the State Department and Congress. They fondly tend to forget that he has less support than Kennedy in his home state of Connecticut, was defeated when he ran for re-election as Governor in 1950, was also defeated in the primary when...
...Front-paged in India, Lerner's 'story evoked angry opposition questions, a fudging denial from Menon. Huffed Menon: "Lerner is no gentleman. An English journalist would never report what was said over tea." This week Lerner will end his double educational mission in India by covering the Nehru-Chou talks and holding his last seminar. He leaves with mixed feelings. Nowhere else has he found students so "intellectually hungry" and yet so lacking in "a sense of mission." India is tough on a teacher whose chief creed is that of Mr. Justice Holmes: "It is required...
...autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Nehru's passion for central planning and controls: "The blood must circulate all over the body, though the brain may regulate...
Swatantra's chief asset is clearly the growing dissatisfaction of India's masses with Congress Party maladministration and corruption, and the growing disenchantment of India's intellectuals with Nehru. The party's chief liability was shrewdly emphasized by Nehru himself, who during a 20-minute courtesy call on C.R. last week ironically remarked: "I've come to see how young you are looking." So frail that he moves about leaning on stout young lieutenants, for all the world like a resurrected Gandhi, C.R. admittedly has a limited political future...