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Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru last night defended his country's seizure of Goa as the only possible action India could have taken since international law had failed to provide procedures for peaceful change...
...Unless grievances . . . are rapidly removed, there are likely to be continuous breaches of the peace." Nehru predicted...
...Elections are not a good thing, because they bring out the worst in us," says India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and in the final days of the campaign, there was plenty of evidence to support him. In Uttar Pradesh, four people were shot dead in riots; in Kashmir, candidates opposed to the government claimed they were kidnaped by police. In Jaipur, where the Maharani of Jaipur was running against the Congress Party machine under her maiden name. Gayatri Devi, local politicos found another Gayatri Devi to run against her as an independent in order to split her vote...
...each other with a barrage of epithets. So corrupt and inefficient is Congress, raged Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. leader of the free-enterprise Swatantra Party, that "it is time for us to open our umbrellas to protect ourselves against the heavy drizzle of Congress maladministration." The party, "C.R." continued, is only Nehru's "donkey ... a band of bakasuras [mythological Hindu demons], a swarm of locusts, a band of tyrants." Retorted Nehru: "He is cursing for the sake of cursing." Lashing out against the Swatantra's threat to his doctrinaire brand of socialism, Nehru said: "Rajaji calls me a half Communist...
...Nehru's campaign was the vital constituency of North Bombay, where independent Coalition Candidate J.B. Kripalani hoped to unseat Nehru's left-lining Defense Minister Krishna Menon (TIME cover, Feb. 2). Posters hitting at Congress Candidate Menon's soft stand on Red China's border incursions proclaimed: "Patriots vote Kripalani; Communists vote Menon." Through North Bombay's streets snaked a huge Kripalani procession headed by a phalanx of gaily garbed dancers. The demonstrators displayed a giant set of scales in which a full-sized effigy of Kripalani outweighed an image of Menon...