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Last week, under a constitutional provision empowering the President to assume control of any state government that is unable to function in accordance with the constitution, Prasad formally took over troubled Kerala until new elections could be held...
Violated Paradise. As India's only Communist-run state-and the world's only existing Communist government to have achieved power through legal elections-Kerala should have been a show place for Asia's Reds. Instead, it seemed to violate almost every promise that a workers' paradise is supposed to offer. Its local Action Committees not only disrupted law and order; they raised havoc with farm production. When Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad tried to impose the Communist line upon Kerala's private schools, he united against himself two usually antagonistic groups, the wealthy, conservative...
Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that things had got out of hand, Nehru still hoped to persuade Namboodiripad to resign in peace. Namboodiripad himself talked as if he wanted to-but was talked out of it by higher Red authority...
...Communists lost no time in proving her right. Employing the same opening tactics that the opposition, used in Kerala, Communists in West Bengal issued a white paper against the Congress-run local government charging corruption and nepotism. Along with big Andhra Pradesh state, which also suffers from soaring food prices, West Bengal offers fertile soil for Communist propaganda. But by their own violence in Kerala, the Reds have lost much of the surprisingly strong sympathy they once commanded throughout India...
...recently he has been making his political influence felt again. In a succession of speeches, Narayan urged Nehru and other top government leaders to quit office and mingle with the masses. He fiercely attacked Nehru's endless temporizing with the Communists, supported the direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions...