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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi, the right-wing Jana Sangh Party wanted more than vague metallic threats. It wanted war−and now. Trains and buses brought adherents from as far as Jammu, north of Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...
Though strong in the streets, Jana Sangh was weak in Parliament. Its anti-government motion was overwhelmingly defeated, 262 to 17. Despite the new fighting in Kashmir, Prime Minister Shastri was determined to eradicate the causes of the old fighting in the barren Rann of Kutch where Indians and Pakistanis had clashed last spring. But he canceled the scheduled visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto to discuss the Rann of Kutch because "no useful purpose" would be served...
...King had succeeded in removing 24 Deputies from Papandreou's aegis. Last week two more Center Union leaders, including former Deputy Premier Stephan Ste-phanopoulous, Constantine's preference as the new premier, announced that they would no longer support Papandreou's me-or-nobody policy in Parliament. They claimed the backing of another 25 to 30 Center Union members. If true, it would cut Papandreou's hard core to fewer than 120 Deputies (out of 300), making it all but impossible for him to foil singlehanded the King's next choice for Premier...
Died. William Gallacher, 83, former president of Britain's small (some 35,-000 members) Communist Party and longtime Member of Parliament (1935-50), a loud, irascible Scotsman who thrived on baiting other speakers, in 1947 caused an enraged Winston Churchill to yell "Shut up, Moscow," to which Gallacher retaliated "Voice of Wall Street," eventually lost his seat to a Laborite; of cancer; in Paisley, Scotland...
Papandreou himself appeared in Parliament exactly once: to shout a triumphant ohi (no) when his name was called in the roll on the vote of confidence, then stalk out dramatically, leaving the chamber behind in cacaphonic chaos. To win his majority, since 24 Center Union Deputies backed Novas, Papandreou needed, and got, the support of 22 EDA (proCommunist) deputies, to add to the 145 votes of Center Unionists who had remained loyally behind their stubborn old leader. Young King Constantine was on the spot, and he had no choice but to talk things over with Papandreou next day. After...