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...China's bamboo fence is the most impenetrable political barrier in the modern world. Recently, Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung offered to let 14 Indian observers peek behind the fence (India had allowed a Red Chinese "good will" mission to visit New Delhi last year). Prime Minister Nehru, who is fascinated by the New China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose his closest confidante and most recent envoy...
Last week, after a carefully conducted Cook's tour of Mao's Wonderland, the 14 Indians reported to Nehru. For public consumption, Mme. Pandit said a few kind words: "We were greatly impressed by the fine creative effort of the New China." But in private conversations with U.S. newsmen, the 14 delegates painted a more realistic picture. Their findings...
...India's 360 million people, 26 million are primitive aborigines. They include head-hunting Nagas, Nilgiri pygmies and dusky Santhals. Last week Prime Minister Nehru told a conference of Indian anthropologists how "happy and at home" he felt with such "virile people...
India's Prime Minister Nehru convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet...
...invitation of Pandit Nehru. Shapley went to India early in 1947 for the general inspection and report on astronomical observatories and other scientific institutions throughout India. This involved travels to all the large cities of India, and since that time Shapley has acted as informal advisor on scientific problems to India. He has also brought four Indian astronomers to the University...