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Three weeks after moderate Premier Ali Razmara was assassinated last March by a member of the extremist Fadayan Islam, the old dissenter got his unconditional nationalization program through Parliament by unanimous vote. He was asked by Parliament to be Prime Minister. Though "sick and old," he accepted, bowing, as he said, to the demands of the majority...
Nehru said his measure was aimed at Communist and Hindu extremist agitation. His real targets: Atom, Current, Struggle and Blitz, four Bombay-published sensational weeklies which have consistently attacked Nehru's domestic and foreign policy, scurrilously attacked the U.S. In its next issue, Blitz compared Nehru with Hitler, said: "There is as much deterioration in the moral fiber of Nehru as there is in the moral strength of the so-called Congress [Party]. The sponsor of civil liberties in 1936 has become the wrecker of liberties...
...month ago the anti-British riots were led by the extremist National Front. Frontist Chief Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq now seemed ready for moderation: he spoke of Premier Ala as his "friend of 30 years." But the Communists had no intention of letting calm and conciliation reign. In Teheran, they called themselves the National Association for Fighting the A.I.O.C., rallied in the capital's Majlis Square in defiance of police orders. Young men wearing lapel buttons decorated with Picasso's dove and the word "peace" led a crowd of 7,000 in clenched-fist salutes, in shouts...
Last week in the town of Gandhinagar some thought that Nehru had won a great victory. Others, who knew the depth and strength of the extremist movement behind Tandon, felt that the issue had been postponed rather than settled...
...Chastity Belts. Freedom is not losing out everywhere. The Supreme Court of India, in its first term under the new constitution, recently struck down government attempts to ban a pro-Communist weekly and pre-censor an extremist Hindu weekly. Ruled Justice Patanjali Sastri: "Criticism of government and exciting disaffection . . . toward government cannot be regarded as justifying [censorship] of the press...