Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheer hand-wringing distress at Red China's aggression in the Himalayas, no other group in India can match the Communist Party. Muzzled by their political faith and unable to utter a wholehearted denunciation of Peking's violations of their own nation's frontier, the Communists have been publicly rebuked by Prime Minister Nehru, roundly blasted by a clutch of other politicians, including Nehru's daughter Indira, who has labeled Indian Communists "these parrots whose masters live abroad." Worse yet, India's public has become aroused against the Reds. By last week, this combination...
...steamy southern state of Kerala, Communist Boss E.M.S. Namboodiripad saw his hopes of recapturing the state government go glimmering, admitted that his party's "refusal to denounce China" would strengthen the hand of his democratic opponents in Kerala's coming elections. In Bombay state, as the price of a local alliance with their old foes, the Praja Socialists, Red leaders signed a resolution expressing support for "the Prime Minister and the government of India, in defense of the territorial integrity of our great country," then muttered complex explanations to angry party diehards. Unappeased, Puran Joshi, editor...
...many Indians, the sight of Communists floundering is a source of malicious merriment. Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
Almost without exception, responsible Western economists recognize that to deny that Red China is growing economically would be selfdelusion. At a fearful price in oppression and human suffering, the Chinese Communists have, as Chou En-lai claims, made "earthshaking changes" in the Chinese economy in the last decade. But faced with the phantasmagoric nonsense emerging from Peking last week, even those Westerners most ready to be impressed by Chinese Communist accomplishments could do nothing but shrug: "Here we go again...
After being reluctant about taking up the problem at all, the United Nations General Assembly has reluctantly voted a mild, almost anemic resolution condemning--no, not even condemning--expressing "grave concern" over "reported" repressions in Tibet. The Communist Chinese, chastened by this stinging rebuke, will no doubt immediately withdraw their forces, and the bespectacled Dalai Lama will soon make a triumphal re-entry into Lhasa, with Life magazine on the scene to cover the event with the same breathless fervor it devoted to his "miraculous escape...