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...Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
...surprised last week when Mohamed Ali Jinnah once again slammed the door on Indian unity. The predominantly Hindu All-India Congress Party had neatly cornered Jinnah early in January, by substantially agreeing to his conditions for Moslem League participation in the constitution-making Assembly. Then Congress Party Boss Vallabhbhai Patel committed an amazing political fumble...
Before the Assembly convenes again in April, the British (who only want to get out) would have to recast or reaffirm their India policy-unless Patel could re-corner Jinnah and mollify the nawabs and maharajas...
When the Red leaders, encouraged by these widespread successes, intimated that a general strike was in the offing, Prakasam sought the counsel of Congress Party Boss Vallabhbhai Patel. Patel's advice was strong action. Prakasam followed it -not, as he said, "for the mere purpose of satisfying our own will or acting the tyrant. . . . It has become an absolute necessity...
...Patel himself had been less patient than Prakasam. He had struck at Communist publicists elsewhere in India without waiting for open revolt (TIME, Jan. 27). However, many Red leaders, including Party Boss Puran Chandra Joshi, were still at large, and the Communists were still a menacing factor in the political life of India. Before the war their influence had been negligible...