Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, when Nehru talked of stepping down from office because he was getting "flat and stale" and querulous, his ruling Congress Party begged him to remain at the helm. Congressmen cried: "Panditji, you are leaving us orphans!" and Nehru had consented to remain in office. Leaving this emotional scene, one Congressman, who had joined in the sycophantic clamor, said to another: "The farce is over. Let's go home and laugh...
Last week Nehru lost more glamour by flying down to the Red-run state of Kerala, staying three days, and flying back to New Delhi without accomplishing much. Kerala's Red government has been battling a united front of local Socialist, Moslem and Congress parties who are seeking to bring it down with the "direct action" of Gandhi-style nonviolent demonstrations (TIME, June 29). The Reds have fought back by arresting 15,000 people, jamming 4,180 into jails...
Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
Restless Diabetic. Like most young nations, India converted its independence movement into a single governing party, though its first great leader, Mohandas Gandhi, had hoped that the Congress Party would wither away. Instead, it stayed intact, and, with Nehru as its great drawing card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists...
Overzealous & Dishonest. But as time went by, a subtle change came over the agricultural pronouncements. Premier Chou En-lai hinted to the National People's Congress that "output for any particular year may be lower than in the previous year." Meanwhile, the kept press began to erupt with nasty comments about local functionaries who had been "overzealous" and even downright dishonest in their estimates of what their farms were yielding. Kwangtung province, for instance, had produced not 34 million tons of grain, as claimed, but only 30. There had been, said the People's Daily, "little...