Word: nehru
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long time Prime Minister Nehru has been trying to get the French to abandon Pondicherry and the other enclaves, which he calls "pimples on the map." But Nehru could get nowhere in Pondicherry so long as the French maintained good relations with Pondicherry's part-French Socialist leader, Edward Goubert, who controls 37 of 39 seats in the local assembly. Goubert supported the French, and the French supported Goubert-chiefly by not inquiring into his business activities...
...were a famous family in India. Rab's father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young Rab left Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough...
...spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they, to carry out his duties as chief instructor of a government mountaineering school (which, though projected for months, has not yet been set up). Actually, Tenzing's U.S. invitation had given India's touchy Premier Nehru, through his West Bengal branch office, a fine chance to show his pique over U.S. military aid to Pakistan. Somewhat bruised from his first experience as a political football, Tenzing moaned to Ambassador Allen: "If I know make this much, trouble, I never climb Everest...
Kenya's whites were shocked. "He treated us like fourth-form schoolboys," one complained. When the plan was published, many settlers condemned it as "appeasement of Nehru," and "too much too soon." But by 5:3O p.m. Oliver Lyttelton had his reply from all four groups. Whites and Indians accepted. Negroes and Arabs said no, but it was not a fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned...
...Such Conditions. Two days later Premier Laniel, trim and neat in a blue suit, with a white handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket, lumbered into the Assembly to take on the debaters. Why did the government not accept Indian Prime Minister Nehru's proposal for a ceasefire, to be followed by negotiations? the Socialists demanded. Was it because the Americans said not to? The U.S., added Socialist Daniel Mayer, is, after all, paying most of the bill...