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Owen Lattimore and Mrs. Vijaya Pandit, sister of Prime Minister Nehru of India, Will speak on the "Struggle in Asia" at a Law School Forum on Friday, November 24, Forum officers announced last night...
Having disposed of geographical matters, the Colonel tackled social ones. He told his race-conscious audience that he considered President Truman's civil-rights proposals "a new form of slavery." When a reporter asked him whether Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S., was welcome at the White House,* McCormick snorted: "I wouldn't know. I am not welcome there myself...
Wellesley will set a new precedent at the ceremonies by awarding 11 honorary degrees to add to a total of only 10 others given in the College's entire history. Among the notables receiving these degrees will be: Madame Vijaya Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S.; Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle...
Next day, Nehru heard his sister, Ambassador to the U.S. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, report to Parliament that many Americans were irked by what they considered the Prime Minister's inconsistency on the Communist question. Nehru interrupted. "I am not prepared to be anti-this or anti-that," he cried angrily. "I may be soft to some, hard to others at times, but I dislike being pushed about or bullied . . . Some on the Anglo-American side call me a Communist, while some on the other side call me an imperialist . . . People ask me: 'Are you this...
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...