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...Advantage of Detachment. During a hectic week in Manhattan, before he started on his flying trip across the country, Pandit Nehru got an official reception at New York's City Hall (which was being picketed by striking Sanitation Department workers), visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over...
Looking more & more tired, Nehru rode back & forth between receptions, up & down Manhattan Island, preceded by wailing police sirens and greeted by politely cheering crowds. He was usually accompanied by his sister, plump Mrs. Pandit, India's Ambassador to the U.S., and his slim daughter, Indira, both in flowing saris...
...asked if he wished his remarks to stay off the record, he cracked: "How can you be off the record to 500 people?" In his low, Cantabrigian voice, which carried only traces of Asian inflections, he expressed a noncommittal and slightly distant good will to the U.S. India, said Pandit Nehru, does "not wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally and materially, "to deliver the goods" would...
Then he left for a three-day visit to Canada; with his party he viewed Niagara Falls from Maid-of-the-Mist (see cut). This week Pandit Nehru would take off on a two-week flying trip across the U.S. to continue what he called his education...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have thought the University's protocol interesting--perhaps amusing--but, like many a Harvard man, he found what he wanted at Wellesley...