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AN AMERICAN IN INDIA (277 pp.)-Sounders Redding - Bobbs -Merrill ($3.50).
Saunders Redding, 48, is a good-looking Negro professor of English at Hampton Institute (Va.), one of the nation's best Negro colleges. One spring day in 1952, the phone rang in his office and a voice said: "This is the State Department. Would you be available for a...
On the plane going over, Redding vowed to tell the unvarnished truth about America. Returning, he has told the startling truth about India in a clean, calm book. Author Redding's dismaying conclusion is that Indian democracy, never firm, is in deadly danger of Communist subversion. Some may think...
Urge to Defend. As a Negro ("dozens of Indians told me that I was 'one of them' because I looked like a Madrasi . . ."), Professor Redding could penetrate layers of Indian life that are closed to white men. It was his job to speak up for America, and he...
On campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being...