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...spite of recent Communist gains, the Socialists, led by lithe, 44-year-old Jai Prakash Narain, are still the strongest group in the Congress Party's left wing. Narain went to the Universities of California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio State, became a convert to Communism in Chicago, where he sat up late talking to intellectuals. Returning to India, he soon abandoned Communism for Socialism because the Communists tried to impose a Moscow-dictated line on India. Narain's estimated 1,000,000 followers (out of India's 4,000,000 industrial workers) do not include Narain...
Anti-British Revolution. Like most compromises, the resolution satisfied no one completely (it was passed 99-to-52-the narrowest victory the Congress High Command has won in the working committee). Least of all did it please Jai Prakash Narain, 44, head of the Congress Party Socialists, who favors an anti-British revolution, has called Jinnah a British stooge. Last week he told the students and faculty of the Hindu University of Benares: "In the coming fight, Congress will not have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength...
...year ago this speech would have landed Narain himself in jail. Now the British are powerless to stop his rabble-rousing without the consent of the Congress Ministry of the United Provinces. The very fact that Narain remains free to speak as he does underscores the fact that the British are virtually throwing themselves out of India...
...Narain, Jinnah and their followers continued to pour oil on the troubled flames, even Mohandas K. Gandhi's genius for "neighborliness"-political and personal-might not be enough...
...bright light of a newly risen full moon sprinkled the steps of the temple Lakshmi Narain Mandir at Delhi. The temple bells clanged loud & long. Before the shrine stood a priest in a massive turban and with the holy mark gleaming on his forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...