Word: pandit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
This dispute will see the Allies running second best in Asia regardless of the outcome. Russia has championed--albeit negatively--the cause of Asians, and the West can either follow her lead or oppose the nominations. Thursday's vote, in which Mme. Pandit failed to win election, shows that a middle course equals opposition. With seven votes, the necessary number for election, the abstension of eight out of eleven nations defeated her by silence. So, while the course is set against Mme. Pandit, the West should review its stand on an Indian Secretary-General before Rau's nomination comes...
...expected speakers, Madame Ranjit S. Pandit, Indian delegate to the UN, and Ahmed Khah Bokhart, Pakistan delegate and Security Council President were forced to cancel their appearances because of a UN session in New York...
Diplomats & Dignitaries. In & out of Ike's suite poured a stream of callers. Among them: diplomats (U.N. General Assembly President Lester Pearson of Canada, India's U.N. Mission Chief Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit); Washington officials (Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg to report on her recent trip to Korea, General Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime Chief of Staff and now head of the Central Intelligence Agency) ; foreign dignitaries (Air Marshal Lord Tedder, Bank of Greece Governor George Mantzavinos); politicos (Louisiana's Republican Chairman John Minor Wisdom to talk about building a two-party system...
...Officially, police announced 9 dead, 30 wounded, but the actual death roll was considerably higher. Visitors to the location reported several dozen fresh graves dug in the location cemetery. Government officials pressed the cops to soft-pedal reports of Negro casualties. "Think what [Indian Delegate] Madame Pandit would do with the native death toll at the U.N.," Justice Minister Charles Swart explained...