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...plane, ship, train, automobile and bullock cart, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been campaigning all over the country, stirring up votes for India's four-month-long first general election. He had traveled 23,000 miles, made as many as ten speeches a day, addressed 25 million people. In fact, he had been just about everywhere but in his own constituency in Allahabad. There was no need to canvass Allahabad, he said rather airily...
...Joke. "The princes are sadly mistaken," said India's Congress Party Premier Nehru last week, "if they think that they can turn back the clock of progress." Nevertheless, in Rajasthan the wise money was ten to one on the Maharaja...
...World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional changes and organizing the country for war: he jailed Gandhi and Nehru, suspended the constitution he had helped bring to India, organized an army of 2,000,000, administered what Churchill called "a glorious final page in the story of our Indian Empire...
Last week Nehru, whose tough 1948 policy has been weakened by buttery handshaking with China's Comrade Mao, proved again that on home territory he knows very well what the Communists are up to. Visiting Hyderabad's Communist-dominated Warangal district, he spoke under great flower-draped portraits of himself and Gandhi, telling cheering crowds that the Communists "are a party of murder, arson and loot, not of progress." Nehru plainly considered Hyderabad a crucial test in schooling his people in democracy...
...Christmas list of recent religious books: The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy (Page; $3) with a foreword of appreciation by Actress Mary Martin. It all went back to her meeting with India's Prime Minister Nehru, who asked her how she managed to keep so fresh during the long run of South Pacific. By reading something different, she answered. Whereupon he recommended the autobiography of Gandhi, in which Gandhi discussed Tolstoy's book...