Word: vijaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Nehru's first visit to the United States. He is accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian representative in the United Nations and present Ambassador to the United States...
Throughout India there is widespread administrative corruption and bumbling, especially in the provinces. Nepotism, an ancient Oriental custom, reaches everywhere ; as an example in the highest place, the Prime Minister's critics point to the elevation of his elder sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first to the ambassadorship in Moscow, then in Washington...
Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, will visit Harvard today with his sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian ambassador to the United States. The visitors will be entertained at a small lunchoon given by President and Mrs. Cousut at the President's home. However, no public appearance is planned during the brief visit...
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...