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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...
Although there is no actual anti-Eussian feeling in India, Srinivason painted cut that Indians opposed the violent activity of the local Communists. He quoted Prime Minister Pandit Nehru who had previously declared India objects to the way Communists operate not their principles...
...China has made substantial material progress, but only by using armies of slave laborers. One huge dam visited by Mme. Pandit was being built by 2,000,000 peasant conscripts...
Last week, after a carefully conducted Cook's tour of Mao's Wonderland, the 14 Indians reported to Nehru. For public consumption, Mme. Pandit said a few kind words: "We were greatly impressed by the fine creative effort of the New China." But in private conversations with U.S. newsmen, the 14 delegates painted a more realistic picture. Their findings...