dated Feb. 1, 1951: Need for Balanced Development

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told students of Gujarat University in Ahmedabad that unfortunately lack of integration and balance in the individual prevailed despite tremendous scientific progress. That imbalance was the root cause of problems, national and international. Mr. Nehru observed, ``We must arrive at conclusions regarding the proper method of adjusting individuals to the atmosphere of speedy progress and transition in the world. In India, we cannot definitely say which particular economic or social system will suit us. There are the recent examples of capitalistic development in the United States, and the Communist system which has worked in the USSR. We have to work our own way to a system through which we can find greater equilibrium and integration.''

Nelson Family Descendant Dead

A London report said, ``Lord Nelson, great-great nephew of Admiral Horatio Nelson, died, aged 90. With him died a 150-year- old family pension granted by the British nation as a mark of thanks to the hero of Trafalgar. In 1806, a year after Admiral Nelson died while crushing the Franco-Spanish fleet threatening England, Parliament granted his family an annuity of 5000 pounds. In 1948, the Labour Government of Britain put through legislation to end the annuity which had cost the exchequer 700,000 pounds. The Fifth Earl (Edward Agar Horatio Nelson) was the last of the family to live in Trafalgar House, their ancestral home - also a gift of the nation - with 100 rooms and 3,415 acres at Downton in Wiltshire.

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