Word: panikkar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neutralist, and also unwilling to see his hated neighbor Pakistan strengthened, had deliberately set out to organize Indian opinion against both the U.S. and Pakistan (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week that campaign was moderating. But in Cairo, India's suave, fellow-traveling Ambassador Sardar K. M. Panikkar was trying to stir up the Egyptian battle against the idea, and working to prevent the British and Egyptians from settling their Suez differences. He was skillfully opposed by Pakistan's representative Tayeb Hussein, who, when Britain and Egypt seem on the verge of a break, has a way of getting...
...jetliner last week for a quick look at the archeological and political sights of Egypt. Technically, it was just a stopover-the Bevans were on their way to Egypt's old enemy, Israel, on a junket. In Cairo, the Bevans stayed with their old friend, Indian Ambassador Sardar Panikkar, the diplomat who did so much to persuade India's Nehru not to be beastly to the Communist government in Peking. Currently Panikkar is working with might & main to persuade Egypt to abandon the West and take up neutralism. So everybody concerned was quick to appreciate the official mischief...
...Chinese "good will" mission to visit New Delhi last year). Prime Minister Nehru, who is fascinated by the New China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose his closest confidante and most recent envoy to Washington: his sister, Mme. Pandit...
...mission was carefully picked to give Nehru solid guidance on Red China-something his biased and gullible Peking ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, has failed to do. Panikkar's stock with Nehru is reported to be low. It wasn't helped any a fortnight ago when Panikkar's daughter Devaki married one of India's most prominent Communist bigwigs...
...Nehru's faithful diplomatic servants-and one of Red China's most useful diplomatic tools-has been K. M. Panikkar, Indian Ambassador to Peking. He has frequently praised the efficiency of the Red regime, pooh-poohed even the Reds' own accounts of mass executions. With the official explanation that his wife is ailing, the Indian Foreign Office is recalling Panikkar, now reported greatly disillusioned with Communist China...