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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...
...Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
Restless Diabetic. Like most young nations, India converted its independence movement into a single governing party, though its first great leader, Mohandas Gandhi, had hoped that the Congress Party would wither away. Instead, it stayed intact, and, with Nehru as its great drawing card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists...
...also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants...
...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...