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...Scratch for Pomp. Nehru and Vice President Radhakrishnan hope to hack away the middle-aged fat that, is debilitating the once lean and lithe party of Gandhi. Congress has grown complacent with victory, corrupt, nepotistic, aloof from the masses and rent with internal squabbles. Although Nehru bitterly condemns voting by caste, by linguistic factions or religious groups, many of his nominal followers openly espouse such causes in their campaigns...
...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over...
...cooperation of cardinal and Communist that has steered Poland through six shaky months of peace. Tensest time of all was the election campaign, when it became clear that many voters, incensed at having few candidates but Communists to vote for, were planning to stay away from the polls or scratch out the Communist names. Either action would have gravely jeopardized Gomulka's position and brought the threat of Russian intervention. All across Poland parish priests told their flocks what would be required of them, and bishops ostentatiously dropped undeleted ballots into the boxes. Cardinal...
...headlines told it, the story of congressional debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine was a step-by-step battle over phrases. With the doctrine passed, the story is something far bigger: the story of a historic step in U.S. foreign policy that began with a scribble on a yellow scratch pad. It is told exclusively in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Eisenhower Doctrine...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...