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Jun 26, 2023 · Jawaharlal Nehru’s first state visit to the US as the prime minister of India came in October 1949 and lasted almost a month. President Truman sent his own plane to bring Nehru from London. Nehru addressed both houses of the US Congress separately on 13 October.
Jun 23, 2023 · Jawaharlal Nehru was apprehensive about visiting the US, and a lot of the apprehension stemmed from his socialist ideology. On October 11, 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in Washington on his first visit - at the age of 60.
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Apr 12, 2022 · Experts have noted that apart from starting a new chapter in bilateral relations, Nehru sought to secure commitments of food aid during his visit to the US in 1949, given the Bengal famine had occurred just six years earlier. In this respect, some reports called the visit a “flop”.
Feb 21, 2020 · The first state visit by a U.S. president to independent India came in the throes of the Cold War, in which India decided to remain neutral. India’s presence at the head of the Non-Aligned...
Oct 13, 2015 · On this day in 1949, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visited Capitol Hill as part of a three-week goodwill tour of the United States. Nehru spoke separately to members of the House...
Apr 4, 2019 · His devotion to nonalignment is well known, but few writers have probed the roots of his ideas about foreign policy, particularly with respect to the United States.1 In the decades before India's independence, as the nationalist movement to oust the British developed strength, Nehru came to feel deeply ambivalent about.
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Oct 14, 2015 · Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought American assistance and wrote to the then US president John F Kennedy to provide India jet fighters to stem the Chinese tide of aggression during the 1962 Sino-India war, according to a new book.
