Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latins were somewhat startled when the U.S. turned up voting for India's unpredictable Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Eleven ballots have been taken, including two this week, and neither Manuilsky nor Mrs. Pandit has won the necessary two-thirds vote, because the Latin Americans and the rest of the Western bloc are split...
Last week a Latin American delegate said: "We don't get it. When Manuilsky votes with the Russians that requires no explanation back home. But when Mrs. Pandit votes with them, as she often will, that will hurt us. Why doesn't the U.S. delegation send somebody around to explain its insistence on Mrs. Pandit? It looks a little stupid...
...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...
...Sample: "Though it is claimed that democracy is the rule of the day in America, actually there is no voice of the people at the helm of affairs.") While other nations were still waiting to be allotted suitable Embassy quarters in the crowded capital, newly arrived Mrs. Pandit went straight to the head of the diplomatic queue, was promptly given a well-kept brick residence by Soviet officials...