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India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has long suffered from political schizophrenia : he has consistently cracked down on Communists at home while being pally with Communists abroad-especially with India's neighbor, Red China. But lately
...Nehru has shown symptoms of recovery. This summer Red China made a gift of 400,000 rupees ($84,000) to the Indian Red Cross for famine relief. But there was a condition attached: the money must be distributed through the Communist-sponsored "Famine Relief Committee." Last week Nehru's government returned the Reds' donation with a terse comment: "The question of relief is not a party or a political question and therefore it is the government's desire to keep this apart from and above political controversies." Added a government spokesman: long-advertised gifts from Russia will...
...could not write. Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa was by rights the equal of any man in the assembly...
Unconstitutional. For 30 years the Congress Party of Prime Minister Nehru has cried for the abolition of zamindari, but India's constitution leaves land reform to the individual states. For five, the powerful zamindars themselves fought a bill to outlaw their kind in Uttar Pradesh, largest in population of the 28 states. Last year the bill was passed, and the zamindars hired the best lawyers they could find to prove it unconstitutional. Led by Nehru, India's parliament amended the constitution against the zamindars. The Supreme Court upheld Nehru. Last week Uttar Pradesh's law came into...
...congratulate you on the abolition of the system," Prime Minister Nehru told 50,000 peasants of his native Uttar Pradesh last week. "At last," said one of the cheering crowd who heard him at Modinagar, "I can walk erect...