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Last week Nehru lost more glamour by flying down to the Red-run state of Kerala, staying three days, and flying back to New Delhi without accomplishing much. Kerala's Red government has been battling a united front of local Socialist, Moslem and Congress parties who are seeking to bring it down with the "direct action" of Gandhi-style nonviolent demonstrations (TIME, June 29). The Reds have fought back by arresting 15,000 people, jamming 4,180 into jails...
...Resign! Resign!" the pickets had demanded of the Communist government of Kerala, India's only Red-ruled state. Kerala's Communist Chief Minister, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, refused even to consider the demands from local Socialist, Moslem and Congress Party groups. Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools-a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve...
...high command of India's governing Congress Party, after first declaring the agitation against the Reds justified, last week accused its own supporters of responsibility for the violence in Kerala. Namboodiripad had been begging for "that good man," Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to visit Kerala to see that nonviolence kept from getting more violent. Nehru accepted last week, and the result was bound to help Namboodiripad...
...shock of un-Gandhian bloodshed in Kerala made Congress leaders reverse themselves. The first reason was moral: the realization that to oust a legally installed government by mass defiance would set a bad precedent for Indian democracy. One of India's most respected leaders, former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari. So, declared that the methods Gandhi used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign...
...Communists insisted they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress leader, R. Sankaran: "We are prepared to discuss with the Communist government nothing but details of its resignation...