Three cordons of police were linked arm to arm to hold back the crowd of more than 5,000 gathered at Bombay Airport to welcome homecoming Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru back from his good-will tour of Europe and Russia last week. "In the countries I visited," Neutralist Nehru was telling the dignitaries gathered in a nearby hangar, "I was welcomed not for myself, but as a symbol, a symbol of India and peace." At that point the weary policemen's arms gave out, and the welcoming crowd roared across the airstrip, trampling men, women and children in their enthusiastic rush to get...
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