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...used only in a caste-conscious country-to indicate character. The U.S. reader may be baffled by the careful way in which, in The Evolution of Saxby, Bates makes clear that Saxby is the sort of man who, if it were not wartime, would be wearing a rosebud in his buttonhole. But a dozen other tales-of love glimpsed suddenly across a roomful of dreadful people, of a glint of bitterness in an ill-mated couple on a journey, of remembered death-have power to move the heart...
...treaty). Chou also seemed to be assuming that time and other forces would be working for him. In that, he was at least partially right. Before the week was out, and the sound of Chou's insolence had died away, a slender man with jodhpured legs and a rosebud in his buttonhole scooted about the diplomatic conference rooms of London with whispered propositions on his lips. India's Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to be helpful...
...Look at Their flag!" Sporting jasmine garlands and his inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India...
...Spirit of Man." Before this artfully contrived backdrop, Nehru opened a major foreign-policy debate in Parliament. Wearing the inevitable red rosebud in his buttonhole, Nehru spoke four times, for a total of three hours, mostly against the nonexistent U.S.-Pakistan arms agreement.* But first he dealt with Korea...
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...