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...whose convictions are stronger and whose behavior is stranger than their own. To call Mossadeq a fanatic may be correct, but it explains almost nothing. Mossadeq is a far more complex character than the most baffling men the West has yet had to deal with, including misty yogis like Nehru and notably unmisty commissars like Joseph Stalin. The biggest single factor that makes Mossadeq different is a religion that the West knows little about: Islam. Mossadeq is not devout, rarely goes to a mosque. But at home, as in his Parliament hideout, he lives almost as austerely as the founder...
...Prime Minister Nehru ordered Indian army detachments and 10,000 policemen into Telingana province, heartland of the rebellion, to restore order. Despite these measures, Communist guerrillas over the past four years have murdered 3,000 deshmukhs and government supporters,burned hundreds of houses and thousands of tons of rice. Nehru's government abolished yetti, but the police were not above using a little yetti themselves. They seized the peasants' poultry and goats, "requisitioned" their bullock carts. Many peasants turned to the Communists...
...Nehru's proposal to gag the press aroused a storm of protest all over India. At week's end, stepping cautiously, Nehru referred his bill to a select parliamentary committee for action...
...Nehru said his measure was aimed at Communist and Hindu extremist agitation. His real targets: Atom, Current, Struggle and Blitz, four Bombay-published sensational weeklies which have consistently attacked Nehru's domestic and foreign policy, scurrilously attacked the U.S. In its next issue, Blitz compared Nehru with Hitler, said: "There is as much deterioration in the moral fiber of Nehru as there is in the moral strength of the so-called Congress [Party]. The sponsor of civil liberties in 1936 has become the wrecker of liberties...
Sober-thinking Indians disliked Bombay's yellow journals as much as Nehru, but thought it was dangerous to tamper with the principle of a free press, even if only scandal sheets were at stake. Nehru answered with typical Socialist sophistry: "How much freedom of the press have we got today? . . . Practically the entire press in this country is controlled by three or four individuals or groups, or their chains...