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Prime Minister Nehru last week again came out firmly against India's alignment with the Western democracies.* He was against it, he told the Indian Parliament, on moral grounds: "Alignment means that you do what you think is not right, but what others think is right...
Same day, Moralist Nehru got an answer. In Bombay with other Western and Indian intellectuals attending a Congress of Cultural Freedom, Swiss Moralist Denis de Rougemont (The Devil's Share) drew applause from his Indian audience as he developed a parable on neutrality. Said Calvinist De Rougemont...
...busy week, Nehru also found time for a trip to Kashmir, the province bitterly contested by India and Pakistan, where he conferred with local government leaders and rejected as "extraordinarily objectionable" a U.S.-British move for U.N. arbitration of the Kashmir dispute (TIME, March 12). Nehru was accompanied by his daughter Indira, and by Countess Mountbatten, wife of India's last British viceroy...
...countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians-are-different line of India's Nehru and other Asian leaders...
...Norwegian committee in Oslo announced that the candidates for the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize included: United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie-India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson; Former University of Chicago Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins; the Moral Re-Armament movement's Frank N. Buchman...