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When Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru first met Sternberger and his wife Ilse, it was while temporarily released from prison to visit his ill wife. They met at the "Arya Bhaven (House of the Aryans) a comfortable club for Indian students in London who had established it partly in self-defense against the attitude of many Britishers (sic), who hold against Indians a bias very similar to anti-Negro prejudice in the United States…"Their sitting took place later under very different circumstances at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. There Nehru, as India's senior statesmen, was attending a meeting of the recently formed United Nations. He brought with him his daughter, Indira. The pair was unique in their direct effect on India.
Their conversation stood at times in stark contrast to their opulent surroundings. Nehru said, "Time is relative … the week I have spent in this country seems like many years … they make up for the many periods of my life when nothing happened and months shrank… Read More