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...with India's new five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that would ally itself with India's bitter enemy, Moslem Pakistan. Nehru is, therefore, almost as anxious as Eden to ensure that Egypt does not win unfettered control of the canal. But unlike Eden, Nehru wants no overthrow of Nasser. Nasser, unique among Moslem leaders, is on better terms with New Delhi than with Karachi. Nehru's solution: public denunciation of Britain...
Heavy-lidded, his inevitable rose limp in his buttonhole, Jawaharlal Nehru stood up behind his teakwood desk in Parliament one day last week and said, almost inaudibly: "We have reached the conclusion of our journey." After 40 hours of debate and long years of dickering, India was going to get a new States Reorganization Bill, reapportioning the country into 14 large and viable states and six centrally run enclaves, e.g., the capital city of New Delhi. The bill repelled the chaotic factions who have cried for the fragmentation of India along the boundary lines of its 844 languages and dialects...
Jawaharlal Nehru treated the parliamentary outcries of the home-grown Reds with fine scorn: "No one would dare raise his head against the government's decision in a Communist country, because then the head would disappear." But he was disturbed by the riots that followed the House of the People's unanimous vote (the Communists abstaining). "Parliament puts its seal upon [a bill] and it becomes law," said Nehru. "What happens then? Do you go on fighting about it? Once you lose in Parliament, do you take the issue to the streets? Are we becoming an opera...
...succeeded in penetrating virtually every key industry in India. Yet Moscow contributes little to India's economy: barely 1% of India's imports in the past year has come from the Iron Curtain countries v. 25% from Britain, 8% from West Germany. While the U.S. has handed Nehru's government $500 million in gifts and loans since 1950, Russia has doled out farm machinery and one Ilyushin-14 airliner, worth in all no more than...
...face of this growing problem, both the British and the U.S. have begun to apply pressures of their own. The British, who still control more than 80% of all foreign capital in India, have warned Nehru's government that the Soviets may use economic penetration as a powerful political lever. U.S. industrial leaders have pointed out that India desperately needs $1.5 billion in foreign capital to push through her second five-year development program, and have added a pointed comment. In a memorandum released last week, the World Bank mission tempered praise for the young nation...