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With an odd mixture of pomp and impatience, the five Prime Ministers engaged themselves in housekeeping details that for the most part could have been arranged by underlings. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, his mischievous foreign-policy missionary, Krishna Menon, and the rest of the Indian delegation were openly contemptuous of the inept way their inexperienced Indonesian hosts had prepared for the meeting. "We sent some people down here in advance to try and help these beggars," said one Indian, "but they haven't got a clue, not a clue!" Invitations. The five Prime Ministers briskly agreed on date...
Everyone knows of India's Jawaharlal Nehru and of Madame Pandit, his handsome sister. Few know, however, of "the other Nehru sister," comely Krishna Nehru Hutheesing, who is 17 years younger than Jawaharlal, seven years younger than Madame Pandit. In the January Ladies' Home Journal, Mrs. Hutheesing has produced a charming portrait of herself and her distinguished family. But she is also clear-eyed about what power has done to her brother...
...Indian the greatest Indian leader and first Prime Minister is," reflects his sister, telling of his upbringing amid a wealthy family that sent to England for its clothes (Nehru wore European suits until his micros); of Nehru's longstanding passion for chocolate cake, pies and ice-cream sundaes; and of his continuing preference for English friends (like Lord and Lady Mountbatten). "It was Gandhi who once jokingly said, 'When Jawahar talks in his sleep, he speaks in English...
Anonymous Confession. Mrs. Hutheesing quotes revealingly from an article Nehru wrote anonymously about himself in 1937. Disguising himself in the third person. Nehru wrote: "The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor . . . What is behind that mask of his? . . . what will to power? . . . He has the power in him to do great good for India or great injury . . . Men like
...calls himself a democrat and a socialist and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is, ultimately, slave to the heart . . . A little twist and Nehru might turn dictator, sweeping aside the paraphernalia of a slow-moving democracy . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and the inefficient . . . In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar?" Nehru...