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...these tactics have paid off handsomely. In last year's general elections the Communists got 12 million votes (v. 4,700,000 in 1952), won seats in every state assembly, and startled the world by taking over as the legal government of the steamy little state of Kerala. They have their eyes on Andhra and West Bengal next...
...home, India's U.N. Delegation Chairman V. K. Krishna Menon is by turns aloof, argumentative, arrogant. They would scarcely have recognized the homespun, jovial Menon who last week talked and traveled more than 4,000 miles from Kashmir in the north to the Communist-run state of Kerala, deep in the south...
Failing Magic. The heart of the difficulty was that independence had unleashed popular desires that outran the nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...
...more significant was the effect of Kerala on the rest of India. Despite belated but increasing concern in New Delhi, most Indians seemed to regard Kerala's difficulties as mere growing pains. This suits the Indian Communist Party fine. Already in the state of Madras, and in Communist-oriented Andhra, teachers and laborers are demanding equal pay to that promised (but not yet delivered) to their counterparts in Kerala...
...success of Kerala has created a new surge of confidence in the Indian Communist Party. Ajoy Ghosh, the party's general secretary, came out of a Politburo meeting in Trivandrum last week smiling happily. "The small party we have had until now," he declared, "is unsuitable. What we need is to develop a truly national character. We want a big party with a big membership." He seemed well on the way to getting just that...