{"id":178,"date":"2011-10-09T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=178"},"modified":"2011-10-09T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:35:01","slug":"december-1944-september-1945-mme-pandits-u-s-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/december-1944-september-1945-mme-pandits-u-s-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8, 1944-April 1945: Mme. Pandit&#8217;s U.S. Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit arrives in New York just before Christmas, with the approval of the State Dept. on a flight coordinated by U.S. air force commander General Stratemeyer. Though Pandit visits her daughters in college, her trip&#8217;s real purpose is to raise support for Indian independence by making a cross-country lecture tour (Kux, 36-7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kux, <em>Estranged Democracies<\/em>\u00a0(1993)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kux describes Pandit&#8217;s visit as &#8220;well-publicized and successful&#8221; by giving &#8220;the Indian nationalist cause in the United States&#8221; a &#8220;substantial boost&#8221; (36-37)<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Roosevelt invited Pandit to lunch at the White House: &#8220;a further sign of U.S. desire to keep on good terms with Indian nationalists&#8221; (37)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gould, <em>Sikhs, Swamis, Students, and Spies\u00a0<\/em>(2006)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>trip endorsed by Gandhi (379)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vijayalakshmi&#8217;s sharp intellect, enormous charm and striking appearance enabled her to be a highly effective spokesperson for a viewpoint with which the mainstream American diplomatic establishment still felt far from comfortable&#8221; thereby making her a valuable asset to the India Lobby (379)<\/li>\n<li>describes lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt as an important media opportunity (380)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hess, <em>America Encounters India<\/em>\u00a0(1971)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;As the sister of Nehru and a leader in the National Congress for two decades, she was the only important nationalist figure permitted to visit the United States during the war&#8221; (151).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;her charm, keen mind, fist-hand experience, and sincerity made Mrs. Pandit the most effective voice of the nationalist cause heard in American during the war&#8221; (152)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit arrives in New York just before Christmas, with the approval of the State Dept. on a flight coordinated by U.S. air force commander General Stratemeyer. Though Pandit visits her daughters in college, her trip&#8217;s real purpose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/december-1944-september-1945-mme-pandits-u-s-visit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39568],"tags":[39560],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline","tag-pandit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}