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...Abdel Nasser made a spectacular payment on his debt to the Kremlin last week. He flew to Russia to pay the long-postponed visit that had to be put off in 1956 because of the Suez crisis. Moscow greeted him with such a welcome as no other foreigner but Nehru and Tito had received before...
...Panditji, you are leaving us orphans!" cried a Congress Party leader last week when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced that he wanted to step down for a while as Prime Minister. Nehru had come to the conclusion that something was terribly wrong with his chosen instrument, the Congress Party, and that many of his aides, through self-seeking, corruption, scandals, jobbery and squabbling, had turned it into a flabby, directionless movement that is unable to win the support of the young or to counteract the wave of cynicism spreading throughout India...
Heading to the Woods. The party stalwarts were in a panic at the thought of losing 68-year-old Nehru, who has allowed no one to grow up in his shadow, and whose national prestige, if slipping a little, is still immense. By acclamation they rushed through a resolution declaring that the Congress Party "categorically refuses to contemplate any period devoid of Nehru's continued leadership." But Nehru was standing firm. He scolded the party members for their action: "You do not do me any credit. It will mean that I have acted casually and you have also acted...
Change of Heart. But at week's end, Nehru did another of his sudden turnabouts, and decided he would heed the pleas of his followers and, with no feeling of pleasure, remain at the unsteady helm of state. "In all humility," he announced, "I will not proceed to take the step I suggested." The faces of party members were wreathed with smiles, but Nehru was grim: "An atmosphere is growing in India that I found not only disturbing but suffocating." His own work had come to be the work of "some kind of robot or automaton ... I was physically...
Judges of What? But behind the glowing words of Jawaharlal Nehru all is not well in Chandigarh. Some of the clients are in strong disagreement with the architect-a man described by Nehru as "one of the world's great men"-France's dogmatic, bespectacled Le Corbusier, 70. The first of "Corbu's" Chandigarh buildings-the massive, sculptural High Court-has won ringing praise from architects and critics. But the men who use it most, the High Court judges, have handed down some sharp dissents...