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...Death of Nehru...
...Nehru's recent attempts to find a solution to the Kashmir dispute deserve praise from one and all. As peace-loving human beings, we sincerely hope that Mr. Nehru's successor makes an honest endeavor to continue his efforts to bring permanent peace between Pakistan and India...
...world joined in the mourning, less for the international statesman-whose always exaggerated role as mediator between East and West had declined with the decline of the cold war -than for a tireless national leader. Nehru had more or less held together, in all its nagging greatness, Asia's largest democracy-indeed the largest single mass of unshackled mankind on earth. The true test of his accomplishment might be set by death itself; for it remained to be seen whether Nehru had given his people enough strength and order to go on without...
Downed Magnum. In his 74 years, Nehru traveled an immense distance-from spoiled child to charismatic leader, from model English gentleman to Oriental father figure. Born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, he belonged to a wealthy, Westernized family of the highest Brahmin class. When he was 15, the family sailed for England and the boy was entered at Harrow, where, as he put it, "I was never an exact fit." He moved on to Cambridge and two years of law studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties...
Died. Jawaharlal Nehru, 74, Prime Minister of India since 1947; of a heart attack; in New Delhi (see THE WORLD...