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Pollock started his collection with the first issue of 1951, was able to get 39 autographs out of the year's 48 cover personalities. Those of which he is proudest are India's Nehru, Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Ridgway, Man of the Year Mossadegh, France's late General de Lattre and Warren Austin. Among those who turned him down were Churchill, Truman, Egypt's King Farouk, Argentina's Peróns and Vasily Stalin...
Jawaharlal Nehru thought he knew where India's dragon lay, and went off to slay him. "Communalism," he declared, "is India's greatest enemy. In the north, this communal poison has created hatred between Hindus and Sikhs. In the south, it has created antagonism between Brahmins and non-Brahmins . . . Unless we wipe out these communal parties, India will go to pieces...
...communalism" he meant India's ancient and narrow religious practices. The princes, priests and fanatics, with the ancient magic of caste and superstition, obscured Nehru's dream of a modern, self-sufficient India. Last week, with three-fourths of the returns counted in the Indian republic's first general election, Prime Minister Nehru and his Congress Party recorded a smashing victory over the dragon. The far-right political organizations had collected only one-thirtieth of the total votes cast, won only ten of the 497 seats in New Delhi's House of the People...
Everywhere Nehru's Congress Party candidates are symbolized by a pair of yoked oxen, the Socialists (who are being left in the shade) by a large banyan tree, the Communists by a sickle and three ears of grain. One Benares independent chose a camel, startled the Holy City by staging a procession of 100 camels through the streets. Another chose a rose, began distributing roses among his constituents. An anti-Prohibitionist made his symbol a bottle (he lost). The Religionists went in for rising suns and burning lamps. Holy Man Brahmachari chose a boat...
With one-third of the balloting complete last week, the position of the main parties was: Congress Party, 68%; Communists, 10%; Socialists, 4%. Forecasts of the final vote (complete Feb. 15) give Nehru's Congress Party 400 out of 497 seats in the federal legislature, and majorities in 24 out of 26 state assemblies...