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...place a cruel stigma upon the U.N.'s inevitable release of the anti-Communist P.W.s: if the U.N. let the prisoners go, as it had repeatedly promised them, it would be guilty of "violating the armistice." Nehru then asked his sister, U.N. General Assembly President Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, to hold a special Assembly debate in February on the Korean "deadlock," and any nation which had not responded to the invitation by Jan. 22 .would be considered to have accepted. In this Nehru went too far: not only the U.S., but Great Britain and France refused to be so pressured...
...Tibet. To such an indictment, the Communist opposition had little to add. But there were both conservatives and socialists who were distressed by the Prime Minister's position. Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit agreed that any U.S.-Pakistan military pact would be unfortunate, but went on to imply a sisterly rebuke to brother Jawaharlal: India, she warned, must not develop a "fear psychosis." If the U.S. was charged with threatening the world, said she, "I am not prepared to believe...
...news seemed hard to believe, but in New Delhi last week, a knowledgeable source vouched for it: India has instructed K.P.S. Menon,* its Ambassador in Moscow, to discuss the possibility of Soviet military aid for India. Pandit Nehru apparently hopes thereby to deter the U.S. from sending arms to India's mortal enemy, Pakistan...
...Lecture Hall (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Mme. Pandit, U.N. General Assembly president, talks on India...
Aloofness. "I am a person with terrible ambitions," she once confessed. "Nothing seems to satisfy me." When independence came and her brother was elected India's leader, Madame Pandit became ambassador to Moscow, and from there spoke many kind words about the sociological success of Joseph Stalin & Co. She went on to Washington as ambassador and there, as in Moscow, maintained what she called "a certain aloofness" toward the cold war. Her soft-colored saris and blue-tinted grey hair gradually grew as familiar at diplomatic conclaves as the male diplomat's dark suit and black Homburg...