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...time of independence, the Hindu Maharajah of Kashmir opted to go to India rather than Pakistan, even though the province was 76% Moslem. His action precipitated a bloody war between Hindus and Moslems. Nehru first promised the state a plebiscite, then reneged. The two countries now maintain a troubled peace along a U.N.-drawn cease-fire line in the divided province. Nehru has three times ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...JANA SANGH PARTY commands only four seats in the Lok Sabha. but has a growing strength based on its virulent anti-Moslem, antiminority appeal. Jana Sangh's Hindu reactionaries would restrict the rights of Moslems, Christians and untouchables ; they would forbid cow slaughter all over India. Jana Sangh is confident that it can win many Congress voters away from their party. "Scratch a Congressman and you find a Jan Sanghi," says a party leader. But the party is strongly opposed by many Hindus who disapprove of its fanaticism...
Menon tirelessly preaches "self-determination," but the question of a plebiscite for the Moslem Indian province of Kashmir, which is also claimed by Pakistan, brings forth a torrent of words about India's historic rights.* He has a remarkable explanation of why the Russian satellites are not colonies: "A colony by definition is a territory which is not a member of the U.N.," he says. "You can't call the satellites colonies, because they were all admitted to the U.N. by a unanimous vote. There may be oppression there, there may be any vice you can think...
Last week the students chanted Mossadegh's name again-largely because the sonorous, hypnotic word is still a favorite all-purpose battle cry. About 6,000 students battled for four days (with time out for a Moslem holiday), wounded 90 soldiers, and took a brutal beating: 400 students injured, two killed...
Last week strong hints that an Algerian settlement was near came from Louis Joxe. 60, Minister of Algerian Affairs, an unconditional Gaullist, who is in charge of the delicate treaty dealings with the Moslem F.L.N. Back from a quick visit to Algeria. Joxe pointed out that the bloodletting in the cities was obscuring the peace and quiet of the populous countryside. He seemed to hint that a tacit cease-fire already existed between the French army and the F.L.N. to enable the Gaullist government to deal with Salan. The F.L.N. was reported ready to 1 ) recognize the "quasi-permanent'' nature...