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...looked by week's end as though Scarlett O'Hara had saved Tara from the carpetbaggers. When strongminded Cinemactress Vivien Leigh violated the slumberous sanctity of Britain's House of Lords (TIME, July 22) to campaign against the projected demolition of London's time-hallowed St. James's Theater, she got a well-bred bounce, but lordly mustaches fluttered in admiration. From a great commoner came stronger support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced...
Nehru and his party fared better last week in another of India's new states. In the northwest prairie state of Punjab, Tara Singh, 71, the white-bearded leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, abandoned his fight for a state of Sikhistan, and ordered his 36-year-old Akali Party of bearded, sword-wearing zealots to join the Congress Party. Henceforth, said Masterji Singh, Akali will stick to religious, economic and cultural matters only. His admonition to his Sikhs, traditionally the great warriors of India: "Girdle your loins. Buckle your sword-hilted belts. Shave no more...
...since Scarlett did her deeds at Tara had a Southern plantation received such national notoriety. The President's golf score at Thomasville was low, his aim good, and his smile broad--indications enough for the pollsters and politicians that Eisenhower would run again. In all the will-he-or-won't-he discussions, however, there is one critical problem which seems to have gone with the wind: the effect of the President's decision on U.S. foreign affairs...
Resistance. The Punjabi government warned: "Shout your slogans in meetings if you want, but not in processions with swords at every waist." Tara Singh defied the ban and was arrested. But taking a leaf out of Gandhi's book, he instructed his followers to remain "nonviolent" and "to offer no provocation." Since then, all over th,e Punjab,, bearded Sikhs have stood in front of policemen (the favorite place: before the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar), shouting their slogans and courting arrest. Already nearly 7,000 Sikhs have been jailed...
...passive resistance of the warrior race had the authorities more worried than if the Sikhs had attempted to carry the day with their swords, for the persuasive power of passive resistance is some thing that old jailbirds like Jawaharlal Nehru know only too well, though Nehru calls Tara Singh's campaign "silly and infantile." Last week Tara Singh marked his 71st birthday, and he spent it in jail. As a special birthday present to him, 271 Sikhs volunteered to get themselves arrested - and succeeded...