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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1951.
POPULAR IN INDIA
this new Ambassador intends to
BISHOP
BOWLES MAKES HIT
live like ordinary people.
The Bowles children are the only
Protestam
Caucasians in their school, which
IN NEW DELHI POST
incidentally is housed in tents, and
but Bor
they go to classes not in the im-
pressive embassy car, which could
BONN, G
be at their disposal, but on bicycles.
Bishop Ott
Informal Personal Approach of
head of th
FOREIGN CHIEF HAILS ENVOY
Church, to!
U. S. Envoy Already Felt
Adenauer t
After Only Two Weeks
Menon Says Bowles Has 'Will and
was Germa
Ability' to Build Friendship
lem, but Dr
NEW DELHI, Nov. 5 (AP)-In-
his oppositi
Special to THE New YORK TIMES.
dia's Foreign Secretary, K. P. S.
talks.
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 5
Menon, praised Ambassador Bowles
Dr. Dibel
Following an exceptionally favor-
today as a man "with the will and
the 36,000,
able adyance build-up in the Indian
ability" to build India United
press Chester W. Bowles has made
States friendship.
group came
an auspicious beginning as United
He spoke at a banquet of the
to persuade
Foreign Affairs Ministry honoring
unity talks
States Ambassador to New Delhi.
Mr. Bowles and the new French
regime of E
Although he has been in this
Dr. Adena
country hardly more than two
and Belgian Ambassadors.
met with ti
weeks his informal personal ap-
"All the elements exist for real
three hours.
proach has already made itself
friendship between India and the
men said D
felt, and Indian friends of the
United States," Mr. Menon said.
his previous
United States are looking forward
"All that is needed is men with
unity talks 8
to a "new deal" in the hitherto
the will and ability to weld these
supported u
rather stiffly correct relations with
elements into a perfect compound
tained only ;
the United States Embassy.
of Indian-American friendship. In
not by the (
The United States has had men
Mr. Chester Bowles we have such
of high caliber such as George
a man or, may I say, such an
Rebels Cut
Merrell, Dr. Henry F. Grady and
alchemist."
RANGOON
Loy W. Henderson as its represen-
Mr. Menon recalled United States
sympathy for India during this
Rebels op
tatives here, but a new and wel-
miles of Ran,
come note has been added by Mr.
country's freedom movement, and
Bowles.
added that "friendship between
water pipelir
ervoir to the
His informality, in fact, has even
Chester W. Bowles
India and the United States is
appeared to disconcert some Unit-
natural." He emphasized that the
cut off three
ed States career foreign service of-
area of difference between the two
supply. Rati
fect immedia
ficers who have been brought up in
settled when he tossed something
countries was less than the area
an atmosphere of austere diplo-
of a social bombshell by inviting
of agreement and "our differences
matic punctilio that is 'apparently
foreign to the former Connecticut
people to a cocktail party "infor-
are not due to any consideration
mal." Hitherto it has been the
of self-interest." The differences
Governor.
over policy with regard to Com-
rule in the New Delhi official set
Made a Hit on Arrival
munist China arose because "each
to put on formal dinner clothes for
felt it was doing the right thing,"
Mr. Bowles made a hit with the
any evening function.
he said.
Indians at the very moment of his
For years tuxedos have had
Mr. Bowles said in a statement
arrival when he alighted from his
more wear than business suits in
yesterday that India and the
plane with his wife and three chil-
such circles here because during
United States must try to "strip
dren, all looking as rumpled as
the eight-month summer coats are
away distortions of prejudice and
any ordinary traveler would after
seldom worn in the daytime, but at
an air trip nearly halfway around
6 o'clock a black tie is donned
propaganda and learn to know the
real India and the real America.'
the world.
more or less automatically. The
He made the statement in his first
Then the whole Indian official
Bowleses have apparently set out
news conference here with Indian
colony was delighted when the
to change that and to get back to
journalists.
story got around that the new
the United States standard of
United States envoy had forgotten
dress.
Americans Move to Bonn
to bring his morning coat and
A New Type of Ambassador
BONN, Germany, Nov. 5 (PP) -
striped trousers and had to bor-
row a set from the Italian Ambas-
The protocol-conscious Embassy
The first twenty-eight families
officers were further disconcerted
moved into "Little America on the
-
sador when he was called upon to
at Mr. Bowles' first cocktail party
Rhine" today as the United States
present his credentials to Presi-
for his staff-a sort of "get ac-
High Commission began its trans-
dent Rajenda Prasad last Thurs-
quainted" affair. When he called
fer to this West German capital
day.
for the guest list he was handed
from Frankfurt, 125 miles away.
The Italian Ambassador's cut-
the usual roster of higher ranking
The entire move of officials and
away coat was too small and the
secretaries and their wives, who
their families is expected to take
SERVICE
trousers were too large. Mr. Bowles
are seen at diplomatic functions
most of this month.
had no suspenders either, and had
here.
to requisition a pair from his pub-
He immediately ordered that his
lic affairs officer, Clare H. Timber-
party must include all junior per-
lake. All through the ceremony of
sonnel as well as the locally hired
45 miles per gallon
presenting his credentials and the
Indian staff. This unheard-of social
formal luncheon that followed, Mr.
innovation established Mr. Bowles
6 models
Bowles experienced some difficulty
at once at a new type of "demo-
$1,095 to $1,495
holding up the outsize striped
cratic ambassador,' and the word
pants, but he managed to get
went around among the Indian
through all right.
middle class all over town.
Through a purely coincidental
During his first week in New
reshuffling of the Embassy's hous-
Delhi, Mr. Bowles enrolled his
ing arrangements, the Bowleses
three school-age children-Sam, 12;
moved into a smaller bungalow
Sally, 13, and Cynthia, 15-in a
than their predecessors had occu-
local public school instead of send-
pied, and this, too, though unin-
ing them to Coot Hill, as virtually
tended, created an impression of
all other foreigners do to avoid
modesty on the part of the new
New Delhi's summer heat of more
Ambassador that pleased the In-
than 100 degrees.
A dream of a car
dians. The former Ambassadorial
The fact that this is the begin-
mansion is being cut up into small
ning of New Delhi's short "cool"
RENAULT
apartments for the junior members
season, with the mercury only in
of the staff.
the 80's, has not lessened the im-
270 Park Avenuer New.York, N.Y.
The new envoy had hardly been
pression among the Indians that