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Promptly at 8:30, after a three-minute breakfast with Daughter Indira and her two sons, Nehru moves into the big, carpeted living room of his 20-room house, once the residence of the chief of staff of the British Indian army. Here, waiting his arrival, there is always an assemblage of petitioners, laborers, peasants and refugees, some of whom have walked in from as far as 200 miles away to state their grievances to Nehru personally. The Prime Minister talks with each, often dictates on the spot a letter to appropriate officials...
...clear mountain flood of [Gandhi's] spiritual influence . . . lost itself in the desert sands of Nehru's day?" demanded Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders. Today U.S. views range from Justice Douglas' conviction that Nehru is "the most effective opponent of Communism in Asia" to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's belief that Nehru is an aide and ally of Communist imperialism-"in fact and in effect, if not in diplomatic verbiage...
...most audible American voice on Indian affairs, onetime U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles, sometimes sounds as if the chief object of U.S. foreign and domestic policy should be to make the U.S. over to something Nehru would find acceptable. Somewhere beyond this is a view, often expressed on the clubwomen's circuit, that if only Nehru knew Americans better he would understand them. The difficulty with this notion is that Nehru himself knows all he wants to know about the U.S. and understands what he wants to understand about the U.S. It is bootless to measure Nehru as a friend...
...Doer. Officially, Jawaharlal Nehru is not only India's Prime Minister but Foreign Minister and Minister of Atomic Energy as well. Unofficially, he is India's chief planner, chief policymaker, chief reformer and universal straw boss. Proud of his command of English (developed at Harrow and Cambridge), Nehru will sign no letter prepared by anyone else, and he personally dictates the great bulk of cables going to Indian ambassadors abroad. His Cabinet ministers have long since become accustomed to being awakened in the middle of the night by "urgent" Nehru messages complaining about an unpainted government housing project...
...Nehru starts off each day at New Delhi at 6:15 in the morning with 20 minutes of yoga exercises that invariably include a few headstands ("Standing on my head increases my good humor"). By 7:45 he has showered, scanned Delhi's English-language papers, and is in his teak-lined study reading cables from his ambassadors and signing correspondence that he dictated the night before. (Two three-secretary shifts work a total of 19 hours a day, handling his home dictation...