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~D/Jfw Incorporating the 'Free E~Nomlc Rel'iew' 1/ Xr:, :;. ) lJ :;·­ Vol. :VI No. 3 April 15, 1958 ~d/Jfw Incorporating the 'Free E~nomlc ReL'iew' INDEPE.'WE!'.'T JoURNAL OF Eco:so~nc AND Puuuc AFFAIRS ~n · WE STAND FOR FREE ECONOMY IN THIS ISSUE Letters to the Editor 2 EDITORIAL 3 India and Islam by 111. A. Venkata Rao 5 Untimely Cloud Over India .....• 7 Khrushchev Reaches the Pinnacle by T. L. Kantam 9 India and the Middle-East by Sumant Bankeshwar 11 Abolish Caste By Legislation by S. Ramanathan 13 What Is Libertarianism? 17 "The Personality Cult In India by Lal 18 Nehru Is Crying For The Moon by Kis1wre Valicha 20 Where Does Mri~ulla Get Money for Anti-Indian Propaganda? 21 On the News Front •11 22 Book Reviews 25 • ltlake English the Official Language ·of India Unleso specified publication or matter does .. not neoessarllJ mean editorial endorsement Priee 25 Naye Paise • by twenty years involved ·the fre­ ezing of two hundred sixty billion Letters r roubles loaned to the State by the To. public. This is one of the exam­ The Indian Libertarian The Editor ples of communist disregard for the right of the people who, in good Indt,..ndm ]oumDI of Economic faith, subscribed to the state loans. tmd Public Alfairs WHY THIS IN.-U::TION ON THE Bombay Sumant S. Bankeshwar PART OF NEW DELHI? Ecllted by Dear 1\ladam: Speaking at New STOOPING TO CONQUER THE MISS Kusmr LonvALA Delhi Bakshi Ghulam Mahomed SHEIKH Pnhli<hed on the 1st ond 15th of asse~ that the Jammu and Kash­ Eoch \llonth mir Government .,..,ould not hesitate Dear Madam: It is surprising ' in takin~ strong action a~ainst that the present Chief Minister of Sheikh Abdullah: But the trouble Jammu and Kashmir State should SiDrle Copy 25 Naye Paise was that New Delhi was the centre have offered, on a silver platter so from which subversive activities to say, the premiership of the State Subscription Rat~.r: were directed in the State. In a way to a declared traitor and rank pro­ it was a broad b)nt that the New Pakistani Sheikh Abdullah. There Annual Rs.6 Delhi Government was inactive. are also news appearing in the so­ Half Yearly Rs.S Why is this so? ealled nationalist press that the As against this statement of Sheikh should not be further Quarterly Re. 1.50 Bakshi 'saheb is; the statement of 110ft'ended" by calling him names Union Defence , Menon for fear of India losing him alto­ (Post paid) ~finister that detention or, arrest of Sheikh gether. This is wishful thinkinl Foreip lZsh.\3 dolbus. Abdullah was primarily the respon­ and NOT democracy. This stoop­ sibility of Sriuagar Government. ing to conquer the Sheikh is not The common man in India is bafil­ only weak-kneed but also betrays ADVERTISE~IENT R ..TES ed at these diverse and con8icting how far from democratic tradition FuD Page •.• , . • . Rs. 100 statements. and democratic ways are both the Intelligent persons in. th~. country people and the press. Half Pag• · . • Rs. 50 can point out to the mvlSible and The Sheikh has forfeitted all Hamlet-like person who is restrain­ rights, to be called an lodian, siuee Quarter Page • . • • Rs. 25 in" the authorities to take action he started his offensive against One-eighth Poge •• Rs. 15 ag';inst the Sheikh. This inaction of lodia and for Pakistan.' The Sheikh New Delhi must end. talks of his being "betrayed" by the One full cohomn of a poge Bombay J. B. Motwane Prime Minister and does not lind Rs.50 anything wrong in the wanton and open tribal attack on the people of COVER PAGE COMMUNISM AND LOTTERIES Kashmir, the raping of Kashmir! Dear Madam: . Communist Rus­ women, and the loot and arson in­ BACK CO\'ER • . • . Rs. !50 sia applies a double-standard to lot­ dulged by the Pak raiders even on SECOND CO\'ER .. .. Rs. 125 teries. Lotteries in bourgeois the Kashmir! Muslims. To his Isla­ countries are called a source of en· mic Iogie all that the Pakistani THIRD CO\'ER . • . Rs. J.2,; richment for astute businessmen. In raiders did was justified as they the Soviet Encyclopaedia (Volume wanted "to free the Kashmir! 25, Moscow, 1954, page 240). A Muslims from the accursed Dogra * Articles from rt"aders :md conbi· campaign is in progress, just at the (Hindu) regime... The question butors are accepted. Articles moment in Russia, to sell tickets is why he did not then join the meant for publication should he for a new large state factory. Al­ Pak raiders? The answer is sim­ t)~tten and on one side of the poper only. though the purchase of lottery ple. He was NOT then In the tickets has been declared voluntary, ·good books of the Pakistani leaders, * Publication of articles does not Jsvestia reports in its issue of Feb. today he is. While he was pamp­ me:m editorial t>ndorsement, 2, 1958 that in Moscow there have since the journal is also a Free ered and raised to the skies as the Forum. been grave violations of the Instruc­ symbol of Indian secularism, by the tions that the sale of tickets is to gullible Hindus, his sole aim was to * Rejected articles \\ill be returned be entirely voluntary. Quotas for get as much money for himself and to the Writers if accompanied with stamped addressed en\·e· the distribution of tickets have been for the Kashmir! Muslims as he lope. · presented to a number of enterprise could from the Indian exchequer. and institutions in Moscow. In His loyalty was always for a Mus­ manY cases, subscriptions for lot­ WrUr to flte MtuJDger for .ample lim nation, Pakistan. tery tickets have been organized, The correct and proper treatment CGPJI here and there they were even forc­ for the Sheikh is send him to jall Arya Bhuvan, ed on people. The State lottery again, to cool his heels and chew Sandhurst Road, Bombay 4. and the State mass-subscription his Islamic cud. And he has deser­ loans in Russia constitute a subs­ vedly earned that treatment by his tantial source of state income. The numerous speeches since his release. extension of maturity dates of bonds Poona -s. s. Apte Editorial ..' ·······················································~··· ···;··························································· CHANGES IN THE ARAB WORLD •For the new prince is Nasser's man, and Nasser is the ·~· t ~an to let the status quo continue in regard to VENTS in Arab Asia are moving fast towards their e 01l resources of Saudi Arabia. As soon as the new E dramatic issue-namely an all-Arab federal Union et-up is re-established, U.S.A. will have to come to under the present Arab man of destiny-President terms with Nasser as the master of a vaster empire Nasser. The Egyptian charge of a plot by King Saud than before for terms on which she may continue to to assassinate Nasser bas developed today· into a coup draw oil from the old oil wells. And if Nasser is, in whereby Prince Feisal, the younger brother of the any degree, subordinate to the Russians, the ultimate King Ibn Saud, has been enabled to assume enhanced sovereignty over this oil will pass on to them. At the powers, adding to those of prime minister and foreign same time, the British oil wells in the Kuwait and minister, and those of police and army ministers. It other Gulf areas, and the American and British oil is said that consequently King Saud has been forced wells in Iraq, will also come under pressure from the to reconcile himself to the alignment of his country Arab (cum-Russian) .new masters. If Nasser is firm, with Nasser's union of Arab states-Egypt, Syria and llnd shows clear subordination to Russia, and resists Yemen. Now only Jordan and Iraq remain. yet ·out being bought up by the West, there is nothing for it of the Nasser bloc. It remains to be seen how long but to fight .. America will have to follow the Franco­ they can remain independent of the Arab movement. British example and dig in and get physical posses­ Nuries Said now recalled to function as chief minister sion of the oil wells. Depending on the international in Iraq as so often before faces a more difficult task situation at the time when this situation comes to ripe­ than ever before to keep the people contented and ness, World War Ill will be definitely in sight. well in hand and loyal to the Iraqi regime. ' \ WHERE STANDS INDIA? mAQ & JORDAN WILL SOON SUCCUMB I I Another development that is almost inevitable is The new middle class fonning itself out of new the showdown between the new Pan-Arab composite developments, financed by the oil income, is more State and Israel. If the West back Israel in a defen­ open than ever to the inOueoce of pan-Arabism. sive war, the Russia will back the Arabs. Then also Modernism cannot breed loyalty to ancient royalties !]1e little war will be swallowed up in the big ultimate and the artificial dynasty of the Hashemites coming Y,.ar. It remains to be seen how long war will success- · to the throne, carved out by the British out of the fully be avoided by the Great Power rivals while wreckage of the Ottoman empire in 1918, has not yet wrangling with each other on these Arab issues. These had much time to grow into the soil and stabilise are not merely Arab issues. They are bound up with itself. The old class of the pashas, deprived of the tlte future of liberty and the future of mankind They old military and judicial function under the old are also of profound importance for us in India, for regime, has long since sunk into an idle rich absentee we shall have to reckon with the Arab world after the landlord class, httle interested in the uplift of the feUa­ world rivalry is resolved one way or another.
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