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...India he has ranged from Bareilly and Srinagar down to Pondicherry and Tanjore, keeping an old pro's eye, cocked and wide, on the mysterious ways of the land - and on the politics of Prime Minister Nehru. At his New Delhi home, sacred cows browse in the flower beds ; snake charmers with their cobras, fortunetellers and holy men with begging bowls crowd the veranda, push in on him. "I feel them at my shoulder as I work," says Campbell...
...Pandit Nehru's pleasure to reply. Under Gandhi, he had remarked at Moscow, India had followed another path than the Bolshevik one, but "we were influenced by the example of Lenin." He was plainly moved also by the example of Lenin's mid-century successors. "Russia and India are coming together," he said. "The great mountain barrier our guests flew over yesterday in a few hours has ceased to be a wall separating...
...very day Misters Bulganin and Khrushchev got this glowing reception, a message from Nehru arrived in Washington. It was Nehru's response to a message &f congratulations President Eisenhower had sent him on his 66th birthday, extolling India's "most successful experiment in democracy." In reply. Nehru thanked the President as "a great leader of a great nation, who has labored for peace and good will amongst nations and peoples." Nehru also seized one public occasion to tell Bulganin and Khrushchev that "We are in no camp and no military alliance." Such statements demonstrated that India...
...these professions hardly matched the ardent public welcome Nehru bestowed on Khrushchev and Bulganin -a performance which, if it did nothing else, could only serve to lend respectability to Russia's leaders in the eyes of India's millions...
...Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal Nehru and the editors of the Nation. Rudyard Kipling was a lowbrow genius, the classic case of a jingo word juggler whose skill brought out the heaviest sneers in the faces of more civilized but not necessarily more talented...