Word: right
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vital Force? Nehru has called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
Everywhere the old & the new, the right & the left seemed to be seeking the elusive dove in their own fashion. From far-off Hokkaido, lured by an enterprising Tokyo promoter, a tribe of Japan's aboriginal Ainus came to stage the first touring performance of their ancient bear festival...
...Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward...
...Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging Setarah 11 (owned by Socialist ex-Bandleader Jack Hylton), Colonist swung too far to the right...