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Lots of Harmony. Last week the Indian girl, now a handsome 47-year-old diplomat, was still finding her destiny in dangerous company. When Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of India's Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
...civilizations." Her softly modulated voice was saved for private Kremlin chats with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky. Though her appointment was approved by George VI and she is officially His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, Mrs. Pandit has always been popular with the Russians for her consistently anti-British line. As India's U.N. representative, her sharp-tongued performance in denouncing "British imperialism" had earned her the smiles and flattery of Vishinsky...
...called "Nan," acquired a pronounced English accent, ate typical English food like mutton, boiled cabbage and pudding; Indian food was served only on Sundays. But what really turned her against Britain was not mutton and boiled cabbage but the recurring jail sentences imposed on her late husband, Lawyer Ranjit Pandit, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, and herself, for political activity. From 1931 to 1943 she was thrice jailed, for a total of two years and nine months...
Netherlands and Indonesian troops both claimed successes yesterday, while in New Delhi Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-president of the Indian interim government, announced that his country would bring the Javan hostilities to the attention of the United Nations today...
...arson had killed nearly 15,000* Indians (according to low Government estimates), had all but persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims. "If parts of Punjab and Bengal want to separate...