The Week

• The Communists took a drubbing in India’s Kerala election last week—a decisive defeat at the polls, once more illustrating the axiom that those who know Communism best dislike it most. Kerala has had its Communist government—and had to throw it out by force. The Indian Communists, who behaved more like Communists than Indians during the Tibetan and border crises, were not given another chance. A popular front of Nehru’s Congress Party and other parties from Right to Left won a sizable majority of the electorate, and the parliamentary basis for an anti-Communist coalition government. Fortunately, Indian conservatives forgot that it was a betrayal of principle, even in a crisis, to form a united front against Communism with Liberals, Socialists and centrists.

1. General officers shall grant no interviews.

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• The Communists took a drubbing in India’s Kerala election last week—a decisive defeat at the polls, once more illustrating the axiom that those who know Communism best dislike it most. Kerala has had its Communist government—and had to throw it out by force. The Indian Communists, who behaved more like Communists than Indians during the Tibetan and border crises, were not given another chance. A popular front of Nehru’s Congress Party and other parties from Right to Left won a sizable majority of the electorate, and the parliamentary basis for an anti-Communist coalition government. Fortunately, Indian conservatives forgot that it was a betrayal of principle, even in a crisis, to form a united front against Communism with Liberals, Socialists and centrists.

1. General officers shall grant no interviews.