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...Kremlin reception a top Russian leader said to India's Prime Minister Nehru: "Your Excellency, we Russians make very good friends and nothing can separate us, but we are bad enemies, too-quite ruthless." Startled, Nehru paused, then replied: "We have no enemies. If there are any, we try to make friends." In the ruthless game of winning friends and influencing policy, Russia had a slight edge over India last week. With cheerful intent the Russians had sent Nehru off on one of the most exhausting tours ever planned for a visiting dignitary. At Stalingrad, after laying a wreath...
...Carpet. In Soviet Asia, it was Nehru's turn to score. At a shishkebab and pilaf supper in Tashkent he found that the people, despite 40 years of complete isolation from the rest of Asia, "still had Asian consciousness." They greeted him with cries of "Salaam aleikum" (may peace be upon you), and in Samarkand the en tire population came out into the streets chanting community songs. Telegrams be gan to pour in from Russian citizens asking permission to name their sons Jawaharlal or their daughters Indira (after Nehru's daughter...
Next morning Nehru, wearing a white rose, laid a wreath at the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square, and set out on the standard Kremlin tour, interrupted at intervals by "passing" groups of happy Russian tourists, who just chanced to have bouquets of flowers to give to him. In the Kremlin armory Nehru lingered over a small dirk of Indian craftsmanship, once owned by Peter the Great...
Doves in the Streets. "I have wanted to visit the Soviet Union for a long time, to see this remarkable and celebrated city," said Nehru in Hindi.* The Russians had it all fixed for him. In a big black ZIS open convertible, Nehru and Bulganin headed a procession of official cars down the Leningradsky Chaussée into Moscow's Gorky Street. Every mile of the way was crowded with thousands of cheering Muscovites...
Prompted by an unprecedented press campaign (in which Pravda devoted a third of its space to Nehru, including a Page One picture, a rare compliment to a non-Communist foreigner), the crowd released white doves, threw bouquets into Nehru's lap, or broke the sidelines to heap strings of lilacs on Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (no kin of the late great Mahatma, who is described in the latest Soviet Encyclopedia as an enemy of the people...