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Indian Ambassador Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit told the Women's National Press Club that "too many sugar things are said in the world today, and I am surfeited with them." (In 1947, when she was India's first ambassador to Moscow, Mrs. Pandit had sweetly said: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations...
Veteran Diplomat Vijaya Lakshm Pandit, sister of India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and first woman ambassador to the U.S., talked to newsmen about how to be realistic in diplomacy: "You can't rely on [just] words and promises...
Shortly thereafter copies are on their way from our Tokyo presses by plane to the dropoff points for distribution to readers like India's Pandit Nehru and Industrialists N. H. Tata and G. D. Birla; to Shanghai Mayor K. C. Wu, Siam Premier Phibun Songgram, Oilman B. C. Jones in Dili, Portuguese Timor, 23 subscribers in Zamboanga, one in Tibet; to William Eu (Singapore), Jan de Groot (Batavia), and thousands of other plain citizens...
...week's end small gangs of Communist terrorists were getting revenge. In the Calcutta area they bombed an airport and engineering works, killed seven people. The raids were timed as a warning to Prime Minister Pandit Nehru who had announced he would address India's legislative assembly on Communism...
...with its Western allies. The Dutch meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Willem Drees would personally go to Indonesia to settle the islands' future. The way things looked in Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping Indonesia's republicans. Burma's ex-Premier Ba Maw announced that a Burmese expeditionary force (including 100 women) would leave shortly for Indonesia to fight the Dutch...