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Nehru tried to dress up his surrender to Tandon as a gesture for "unity," but his followers were not fooled. Last week two of his cabinet ministers, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (Communications) and A jit Prasad Jain (Rehabilitation) resigned from the Congress Party, but stayed on in the cabinet at Nehru's plea. (Their remaining in office, jeered Tandon, created an "impossible situation.") Other dissidents are sure to follow them. Said a veteran Congressman: "Nehru has no guts. He dislikes all that Tandon stands for, but he will campaign to get Tandon's nominees elected to Parliament to insure...
...second was at the high, lovely, remote, forbidden city of Chandrapore in Central India, where "the spires of the Jain temples pierced up through the grey and white mists. . . ." There the tiny, fantastic, incompetent Maharajah put on religious festivals for them ("Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God?"), talked English literature ("See, Mr. Dickinson, that balcony - did Hamlet climb up there to visit Juliet?") and gave Mr. Dickinson his palace. Says Forster: "He forgot that he had given it to me only two days before...
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the forthcoming conference is that its members will represent an estimated population of 436,752,000-more than a quarter of the world's population - whose religions are Hindu, Mohammedan, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Animist, Sikh, Jain, Parsee, Jewish, polytheistic and idolatrous...