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...weary, throttled his calendar back to idling speed last week as the hour grew closer for his departure for Key West, Fla. and five weeks' vacation. He delivered his speech on world disarmament before the television cameras, bade formal farewell to India's Ambassador Madame Pandit (who is going home to stand for Parliament), and rambled and reminisced his way through three days' worth of pleasant ceremonial chores...
...anti-American newspapers were impressed. The Lucknow National Herald appraised Bowles as "an American transcending inhibitions of a mere ambassador." New Delhi's Indian News Chronicle editorialized: "Expectations of better Indo-American understanding . . . seem to be well justified." There was no guarantee that winning friends would influence Pandit Nehru's bewildering brand of isolationism, but there was much to be said for finding...
...official functions fourth from the President of France. Last week the Grand Old Man of European Labor was awarded the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize ($32,400). In selecting its man of 1951, Norway's Nobel committee passed over Norway's own Trygve Lie, India's Pandit Nehru and Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross. It was a surprise choice, and not a universally applauded one. Said Jouhaux: "It is not Leon Jouhaux who is being honored; it is the working class, which has always striven for peace...
...Products of Peace. Apart from Russia's Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, the Class A guests were mostly from the wobbly-neutral Asian states: India sent 14 men, headed by one Pandit Sundarlal and including Nehru's lackluster brother-in-law, Huthi Singh; Indonesia sent three delegates, Burma seven...
...Payoff of Protocol. In the banquets and speeches that followed, the Indonesians were polite but not Reddish; they have been having Communist trouble at home. The Burmese did a little better: their chief delegate toasted Mao and denounced the U.S. But the real payoff for the Reds came from Pandit Sundarlal, who had arrived in Peking proclaiming that India wants China's friendship, but also America's and Britain's. He had been "deeply impressed," he said, by what he saw: "Every Indian knows that the Soviet Union stands for peace, that China stands for peace...