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...solemnize China's new status, India's Jawaharlal Nehru went northward to pay his court. As the leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...
...moved into the old French governor general's palace. His eight years of exile at an end, he grandly wined and dined India's Premier Nehru. They ate off plates once used by Emperor...
...Dear Comrade," wrote Jawaharlal Nehru to each member of his Cabinet. "On the eve of my visit to China, I venture to write to you to dispel doubts and rumors." In 1,300 loosely strung words, the leader of the world's second most populous nation proclaimed that he would not run for re-election as Congress Party president when his term expires next January and would not "function as Prime Minister for at least some time." Instead, said handsomely aging (64) Nehru, he wanted time to read and think while others showed how they could run India...
...letter created the stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...Directions. Increasingly petulant of late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME...