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'''Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta''' (1900&ndash;1974) was the [[ambassador]] of [[India]] to the [[United States]] from 1952 to 1958. He was awarded the [[Padma Vibhushan]] in 1959. He was refused service in a [[Houston]] airport restaurant because he was not white, leading [[John Foster Dulles]] to conclude that US segregation was hurting foreign relations. He was son of Sir [[Lallubhai Shamaldas]].<ref>''G.L. Mehta: A Many Splendoured Man'' by his daughter, [[Aparna Basu|Dr. Aparna Basu]] (Concept Publishing, 2001)., [[Indianapolis Recorder]] {{dts|1955|08|27}}, [https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19550827-01.1.10][http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/achesonmemos/view.php?documentid=71-1_36&documentYear=1952&documentVersion=both]</ref>

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