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Every time Nehru or somebody big like that comes to see Harvard, out rolls a big black Caddy limousine, a great gleaming beast that looks like a whale with windows. On ordinary days it is kept inside. But once a year the Hasty Pudding Organization brings its Ingenue-of-the-Year to Cambridge, to publicize itself and its little show, and for some reason the Pudding always gets to use the Pusey-boat for the ride down to the airport...
...Nehru's own defiance of a 10-to-0 Security Council resolution on Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) was the last straw. With one voice Britons of every political coloration last week proclaimed their disillusionment with Moralist Nehru. "It is shameful to remember that India is still a member of the Commonwealth," said the conservative weekly Time and Tide. "Willful stubbornness," snapped the Liberal News Chronicle. Even Nehru's favorite British publication, the shocking-pink New Statesman and Nation, abandoned its usual faithful praise of everything Indian to warn Nehru that he had "gravely impaired his influence...
Pakistan, of course, was so mad that it declared Nehru's annexation day a "black" day, and tens of thousands of Pakistanis rioted. But less predictable was the reaction of Southeast Asian "neutralists," whose admiration for Nehru once knew no bounds. Accusing India of "obvious hypocrisy," Burma's English-language Nation charged that Nehru "has shown himself capable on this issue of flouting the principles he so ardently preaches to other countries." The annexation of Kashmir, said Abadi, voice of Indonesia's powerful Moslem Masjumi Party, "places India on the same level with Soviet Russia...
Though obviously stung by these gibes, Nehru last week assured the world: "If I am convinced that I have not honored any international commitments in regard to Kashmir, I will either honor them or resign my prime ministership." Unimpressed, Britain's Liberal Manchester Guardian retorted: "Mr. Nehru evidently does not recognize that he is throwing away much of India's moral authority...
...advantages of being a Nehru-type "neutralist" were altogether too tempting for Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 34, whose intentions sometimes exceed his experience. His fragment of fractured French Indo-China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious...