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...Projects from underdeveloped countries eager for foreign capital were produced by the hatful. India is ready to open its great bamboo forest in the Mysore province for paper and pulp production if it can get $8,500,000 in foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign capital to build a $3,700,000 brick and ceramic factory, which after two years should yield a tax-free dividend of 10%. Puerto Rico has a private investor who wants capital for a $2,000,000 tire plant. Thailand needs a cannery...
...India's second general election, kept telling his audiences. But there were obstacles. In Uttar Pradesh the citizens of 14 villages hidden away in the foothills of the Himalayas decided, after listening to candidates, that voting was "just not worth the long walk." In the thick jungles of Orissa, the prevalence of stampeding wild elephants kept all but the most venturesome of the electorate at home. And at least one Orissan who dutifully set out for the polls never made it: he was killed en route by a tiger...
...India's foreign policy to audience after audience of backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing; in tiger-plagued Orissa an election crowd of loinclothed tribesmen and their nose-ringed women startled political reporters by referring to Nehru as the King...
Across eastern India and Pakistan, monsoon rains swept in mighty torrents between the Himalayas and the sea. In the heart of the populous Ganges valley, 10,000 villages crumbled and vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
That was several weeks ago, but so massive was the damage that air force planes last week still dropped goods and medicines to people clinging to floating tree trunks and housetops, almost daily added other places to the disaster list. Orissa's finance minister said: "We still do not know what s happening because we have not made contact with 25% of the villages." After a flying survey of the subcontinental ruin, the International Red Cross's Dr. François Daubenton estimated that the floods had wrecked 28,000 villages, damaged or destroyed the homes...