Word: pandit
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...cabinet room of 10 Downing Street, in Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's busy suite at the Dorchester and Pandit Nehru's quarters at Claridge's through lunch, dinner and breakfast, the Prime Ministers filtered proposals for another compromise bid to Communist China. "We must build a bridge between East and West," said St. Laurent. Added Nehru: "India must be a window through which the West can see the East...
...Washington's National Airport 22 minutes before Attlee arrived. A freezing wind whipped at the heavy, dark blue presidential overcoat. "This is London weather," he commented to Dean Acheson. "He ought to feel at home." Mr. Truman had a cheery greeting for India's Madame Ambassador Pandit, but turned away to talk football to the security guard...
...duties at the United Nations will prevent Madam Vijaya Pandit from appearing at tonight's Law School Forum, it was learned yesterday. Professor M. S. Sundamar, Educational Secretary of the Indian Embassy, is taking Madam Pandit's place...
...means "Mr." Last week Jawaharlal Nehru's office announced that he had dropped the title Pandit (Learned One) in accordance with the Indian constitution, which does not recognize caste titles. Henceforth, India's Premier will be known simply as Sri Jawaharlal Nehru...
Nehru had earnestly championed China's Red regime, urged a seat for it in the U.N. and offered himself as mediator between East and West. It pained and jolted the pandit that Communist Mao had repaid him in typical Communist coin. In his first reaction to the invasion on Oct. 26, Nehru had expressed "surprise and regret" and recalled Chinese assurances that the Tibetan problem would be settled peaceably...