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Opposition to the Kerala Communists mounted rapidly. Many of the student rioters were Roman Catholics (Kerala has the largest Christian population of any state in India) determined to fight Communist encroachment in the schools. Following a call for a statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics...
...Karachi's slums and back alleys; there was now hardly a student in sight, not a word about student grievances. Up & down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern...
...last week, India was practically without news. More than 100 of India's newspapers suspended publication in a one-day hartal (Indian sitdown strike). Only nine major papers appeared...
India's editors stood it as long as they could, in late December decided to stage last week's hartal. They also decided to refuse to print, thenceforth, any unnewsworthy British handouts or the speeches of any British statesmen. On New Year's Day they failed to publish such routine news as Britain's annual "honors list." Although the British-owned Indian papers did not participate, they sympathized; the Calcutta Statesman offered Indian-owned papers "our good will and . . . mediation...
...assembly, such as the world has not seen in many years excepting in Russia and in Italy. . . . "Two years at hard labor are given for not leaving your home town when so ordered by police; for flying the Nationalist flag of India; for saluting that flag; for observing hartal, that is, closing your business as a protest against the imprisonment of Gandhi; for peaceful demonstrations on the street; for making speeches urging the freedom of India. . . . "The attempt made to create the impression that Gandhi's influence is on the wane, that he is losing his hold...