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...Pandit Strikes. One morning last week, Nehru moved before dawn against the Lion of Kashmir. It was 3 a.m. A thunderstorm drenched the chalet resort of Gulmarg, where Abdullah slept. Police awakened him and read a letter from Prince Karan Singh, the nominal ruler of Kashmir. Abdullah's cabinet was dissolved; he himself was under arrest. In Srinagar, the run-down capital, 30 members of Abdullah's staff were also arrested, accused of "disruptionism," corruption, nepotism, maladministration, and intrigue with a foreign power. Indian papers hinted that Adlai Stevenson, who had visited Srinagar last May, was Abdullah...
...Abdullah close to the Indian border. Then Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, the new pro-Indian Premier, told Kashmiris that independence would turn the state into another Korea. In New Delhi, Nehru's officials lamely claimed that India was told of the arrests only "after they had taken place." (Prince Karan Singh and Bakshi were in India last month for talks with Nehru.) In Kashmir itself, a crowd of the Lion's followers marched on the Prime Minister's residence, cursed and threw stones at his police. Indian troops in battle dress and steel-helmeted police reinforcements moved into...
...regard to Karan Singh & Wife [TIME, Sept. 8], I noted with great pleasure that Theda Bara was exactly right in her portrayals of an Oriental siren...
With the help of Plato, 21-year-old Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh, Prince Regent of embattled Kashmir, last week was trying to choose between duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling...
...commencement speech at Jammu and Kashmir University-Karan Singh is himself a graduating student and at the same time the university's chancellor- the Prince mused: "Increased possession . . . does not bring .with it contentment or peace of mind. Our distracted world needs some sort of philosophical background if it is ever to pull itself out of the mire of ignorance, hate and misery. Over 25 hundred years ago, Plato said that it was not until kings became philosophers or philosophers became kings that the ideal society would be built . . . Kings," he added wistfully, "are having a rather bad time...