“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”

—  Jawaharlal Nehru

Speech to the US Congress (13 October 1949)

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Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

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