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...Best of Asia" issue was like a bowl of salad-sweet, salty and sour, all appropriately blended. Subramaniam Sankaran, Madras, India...
...they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress leader, R. Sankaran: "We are prepared to discuss with the Communist government nothing but details of its resignation...
Like so many proud fathers, India's Communists were busy clucking and exclaiming over their new prize exhibit-the Communist government of the state of Kerala (pop. 13.6 million) in southwest India. While Prime Minister Nehru's central government watched nervously, Chief Minister Sankaran Namboodiripad put on quite a show in his first two weeks in office. Ventilation systems were ordered for the state jails. The pay of village headmen was ostentatiously raised from $6.75 a month to a maximum of almost $11 a month. In a "gesture of mercy," the Communists promised to release 500 "political" prisoners...
...Sankaran Nair, member of the Indian Government, recently published a book about Sir Michael's administration in which he charged that Indians had been flogged...
...Michael read the book, brought suit for libel against Sir Sankaran...
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