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India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who promoted the show and missed no cue to promote India as the natural leader of the East, pitched the tone. Said he: "The countries of Asia can no longer be used as pawns by others...
...urgent request from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-president of the interim-government, summoned him to India in early January. Successor of President Conant as head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Profesor Shapley represented the organization at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress...
Down a jungle walk on Bengal's marshy coast last week, two Indian political leaders stalked solemnly away from Mohandas K. Gandhi's in-roofed hut, burned out in recent communal rioting. They were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and President Acharya Kripalani of the All-India Congress Party. Hindu women blew conch shells, and thousands of devotees showered the two leaders with flowers...
...Union, condemning them to a "ghetto" life. South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, backed by Britain and the U.S., asked to have the matter adjudicated by the International Court of Justice. But many delegates watched the appealing, sari-clad figure of India's Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, who dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief), and they forgot the World Court. Mrs. Pandit had previously claimed that "Jesus Christ Himself . . . would be a prohibited immigrant [to South Africa]." The two countries were instructed (32-to-15, with seven abstentions) to compose their differences...
Unanimous approval of a constitution which will insure India's independence and will be acceptable to both of that nation's major political factions was predicted last night by V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and chief foreign affairs adviser to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru...