Word: rajagopalachari
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...will influence conservative Hindu Congressmen. If the Swatantra scores or Menon does poorly, it will infuriate Nehru and immeasurably strengthen the conservative element within his own Cabinet. But if the rest of the opposition falters, the Communists by default could widen their power. Says the Swatantra's Rajagopalachari: "Whether we win or not, making the attempt to really oppose is worthwhile...
...overwhelming popularity in India of Nehru's Goan "conquest," and for all the economic benefits that it will reap from the former Portuguese colony, a few rumbles of discontent arose last week over India's resort to force. They came from a respected source: venerable Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 82, leader of the conservative Freedom Party, close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and the only Indian to serve as Governor General of his country...
...Freedom Party's organ, Swarajya Rajagopalachari assailed India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "this claptrap Goa action. No cartoon can do full justice to the contradictions of our international peace policy arising out of Mr. Nehru's action. India has helped undermine the prestige and power of the U.N. Security Council. India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power." India, continued Rajagopalachari, had claimed that its action was based on anticolonialist grounds, yet had courted a Soviet veto of the U.N. request for a cease-fire even...
Though he agreed that the presence of the Portuguese in Goa "was an offense to Indian nationalism," Rajagopalachari added that "it was not a greater offense than China's exploits on the Himalayan border. Our nationalism has led us into impatience at the wrong moment, when in the international world there is trouble brewing everywhere, and we have a mission for promoting peace and a special qualification for fulfilling that mission. The moment may have been thought just the time by those who had an eye on the elections, but from the international angle it is the wrong moment...
...Maharani of Jaipur, who chose to join the new and growing Swatantra Party, a right-wing group that attacks the "socialism" of Nehru's Congress Party and calls for the kind of individualism sought in the U.S. by Dwight Eisenhower. The party's venerable founder is Chakravatri Rajagopalachari, first native-born Governor General of India, who lyrically describes the maharani as "a combination of Sita, Lakshmi and the Rani of Jhansi...