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...Pandit Strikes. One morning last week, Nehru moved before dawn against the Lion of Kashmir. It was 3 a.m. A thunderstorm drenched the chalet resort of Gulmarg, where Abdullah slept. Police awakened him and read a letter from Prince Karan Singh, the nominal ruler of Kashmir. Abdullah's cabinet was dissolved; he himself was under arrest. In Srinagar, the run-down capital, 30 members of Abdullah's staff were also arrested, accused of "disruptionism," corruption, nepotism, maladministration, and intrigue with a foreign power. Indian papers hinted that Adlai Stevenson, who had visited Srinagar last May, was Abdullah...
Resplendent in white khadi, with the inevitable red rosebud in his buttonhole, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru flew to Karachi last week. Prime Minister Mohammed Ali was on hand to greet him, while more than 100,000 Pakistanis lined the dusty streets, waving Indian flags as well as their own. From a people that had expected, feared or threatened war with India for six years, this was indeed a surprising welcome...
...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...