Word: indians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nehru had ten minutes before the London-bound airliner took off. Flanked by an admiral and a general, he approvingly reviewed an honor guard of the Indian navy. Only the day before, dedicating a new national defense academy at Poona, the Prime Minister, as a former believer in passive resistance, had pronounced it "odd" that "we who for generations have talked about . . . and practiced nonviolence should now be glorifying our Army, Navy and Air Force. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Though life is logical, we have to face all contingencies, and unless...
Partly this is because Gandhi blessed him. Partly it has to do with a tradition of Indian life since Buddha-the imaginative appeal of a highborn Brahman, such as Nehru, giving up a life of ease to join a popular cause such as liberation from British rule. Finally, the largely illiterate masses of India, not yet beyond a feudal horizon, still look up to their ruler as a child looks to its parent...
Madar, who followed Dartmouth last season too, goes to Hanover for the Indian-Colgate game...
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...
Some months ago the priest in Ixcateopan sent the National Museum a frayed and yellowed manuscript that had been brought to him by an Indian farmer whose family had preserved it through the centuries. It was signed by one of Cortes' companions, Padre Francisco Toribio de Benavente, whom the Indians had called Motolinia (the Poor Man), because of his strict asceticism...