Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once free, Korowicz asked Secretary of State Dulles for asylum in the U.S. (More than 200 other Russian and satellite diplomats have similarly sought safety in the West since 1945.) Then he sent letters renouncing his Polish credentials to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit now president of the General Assembly (see INTERNATIONAL). He wrote: "It is... absolutely impossible for me to collaborate with these representatives-not of my beloved country-but solely of the Soviet regime in Poland...
...West stepped into the Assembly's big 60-nation meeting to head off a bulldozing Communist campaign to reopen the whole Korean peace conference issue and wheedle Peking into China's U.N. seat. With dispatch, the diplomats elected India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the Assembly's first woman president (see below), agreed to argue about most of the world's dreams and ills, from disarmament to difficulties in landscaping the U.N. skyscraper headquarters in Manhattan...
...permitted, 55-1, to join the conference "if the other side desires." Menon told the Assembly that he and Lodge were "great friends." Lodge said that Menon was "the great representative of the great leader of a great nation." The U.S. promised to back India's Mme. Pandit as the next President of the Assembly, for the session starting Sept. 15, in which Red China's counterproposals would presumably come up for discussion and the argument would be resumed...
...Pandit Strikes. One morning last week, Nehru moved before dawn against the Lion of Kashmir. It was 3 a.m. A thunderstorm drenched the chalet resort of Gulmarg, where Abdullah slept. Police awakened him and read a letter from Prince Karan Singh, the nominal ruler of Kashmir. Abdullah's cabinet was dissolved; he himself was under arrest. In Srinagar, the run-down capital, 30 members of Abdullah's staff were also arrested, accused of "disruptionism," corruption, nepotism, maladministration, and intrigue with a foreign power. Indian papers hinted that Adlai Stevenson, who had visited Srinagar last May, was Abdullah...
Resplendent in white khadi, with the inevitable red rosebud in his buttonhole, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru flew to Karachi last week. Prime Minister Mohammed Ali was on hand to greet him, while more than 100,000 Pakistanis lined the dusty streets, waving Indian flags as well as their own. From a people that had expected, feared or threatened war with India for six years, this was indeed a surprising welcome...