Word: india
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite such political and ideological unrest, Nehru insists: "People do not believe in 'isms.' They believe in their own individual life . . . India is fundamentally stable because its peasants are better off than before. Industrial workers are, in some cases, a little better off and in some cases a little worse off. But, in any case, not discontented. But the middle class is much worse off and that is the danger to our stability...
...always cherished a sweeping vision of India in the vanguard of an awakened Asia. He long has been in correspondence with other Asiatic leaders. He met Mohamed Hatta, Indonesia's Premier, at an anti-imperialist rally in Brussels 20 years ago, has been writing to him ever since. He is a close friend and backer of Burma's Premier Thakin...
...somber struggle between world freedom and world Communism, Nehru has professed to see only a big power rivalry from which India should stay aloof. In April 1948 he charted a "Third Force" course...
...shall take care not to align ourselves with one group or another ... remaining neutral on those [questions] not affecting us directly . . . India obviously cannot join either of the two blocs . . . What she desires is an understanding between Russia...
...autobiography, written during the early '30s in British jails, Nehru gave unstinted praise to the "great Lenin" and the "great new [Soviet Russian] world." His sentiments may have changed since then. He has come to deplore Communist methods. As Prime Minister, he has sanctioned stiff police action against India's Reds, jailing hundreds of them for terror and sabotage. He has (somewhat quaintly) denounced Indian Reds as "the greatest enemy to the cause of Communism...