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HER WAY to GO COJ\IJ\IE'\'TS the Prime Minister Has Laid Down a Bitter-Sweet Recipe for West View Ftom Delhi Bengal-First Bitler Then Sweet Vol. 3: No. 18 J() I.Y 25, 1970 PRICE: 35 PAISE On Other Pages HER WAY TO GO COJ\IJ\IE'\'TS THE Prime Minister has laid down a bitter-sweet recipe for West View fTom Delhi Bengal-first bitler then sweet. The Centre is ready to help the GROPING FOR ALLIES hapless State with a bulging purse ot how many erores of rupees even FROM t\ POLITICAL CORRES- she does not know; schemes are ready to transform CalCUitta from a PO-'l(wvr .5 nightmare to a dream city; bustee-dwellers will have neat little tene- Kerala ments now beyond the reach of the middle-class; the unempl6jed wiII PREPARING FOR THE FRAY have work, the peasant land to tiIJ, and, what is most amazing. the civic RAM)l 6 bodies enough funds which wi]], after the customary loot, leave a surplus for amenities to citizens. The political parties have not been forgotten INDIA-CHINA DISPUTE AND either; they have been promised a general election, the ultimate panacea, THE SOVIET UNION so that the fortunate among them may once again wallow in power. But P. C. DUTrA 8 all this after normalcy has been restored; the dam of Central goodwill and munificence will burst if law and order returns. loll selecting the CONSULTA~CY SERVICES IN I1\'DIA order of priorities for the State the Prime Minister gave precedence to FROM A CORRFSPONDENT ] ] the Home lVlinister in her, and all her talking hours were occupied wi th devising measures to curb lawlessness and violence. Her retinue CALCUTTA DIARY consisted of the top brass of the Union Home Ministry, experts in smelling GYAN KAPUR ]2 Chinese and Pakistani rats in politically inconvenient opponents of the ruling party; they held their little summits with their men in Calcutta PSYCHEDELIC OIINEMA and State Government officials furtively, while attention was focussed MRIGANKA SEKHAR RAY ]3- on J\hs Gandhi's activities. The upshot of these talks may be a grand LALAN FAKIR Hrategy against the lawless and the anti-social which, in the code of the ABHl)IT MUKHOPADHYAY ]4 Government and the political parties recognised by the Establishment, mean N axalites. The details of the stra tegy will gradually emerge, but CLIPPINGS 14 there is no doubt that repression will be more ruthless and i,ndiscrimi_ nate. The Centre will be more generous with arms aid to equip the LETTERS 17 police, the CRP, and the Border Security Force which will scour the State. So much for the success of the latest bandh and the gloating< over it. Neither the Prime Minister nor anybody connected with the imple- Editor: Samar Sen mentation of her law-and-order plan has cared to explain what "normalcy" PRINTED AT MODERN INDIA PRESS, means. In J 966, she and her now-denigrated colleague, Mr GulzarilaI 7, RAJA SUBODH MULLICK SQUARE, CALCUTTA-13 AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY Nanda, had to rush to Calcutta to pacify the angry and by no means FOR GERMINAL PUBLICATIONS (P) LTD. peaceful State. She is peeved at last week's bandh," but there were many BY SAMAR SEN FROM 61, MOTT LANE, CALCUTT A-1 J more four years ago; yet the general election could be held in early 1967. TELEPHONE: 24-3202 Despite recent attempts to rehabilitate Mr Dharma Vira, there was more • Regd. C 2026 c....__...:---. FRONTIER the mini-front mmlstry w'ill be able set to work on this line on the For- to record some achievement with ge- labour trouble in West Bengal in ward Bloc, for' it is principally the \neroUis assistance from the Centlre. 1968 than in the preceding year Forward Bloc which has stood all The Prime Minister and her asso· when the United Front reigned. But these months between President's rule iate parties are out to bully and that did not come in the way of a and a mini-front ministry. To make suborn the recalcitrant into accepting mid-term poll in February 1969; it their plea convincing they may even their policy. 1£ Mrs Gandhi were would have been held three months declare that a mini-front ministry will serious about continuatiQ1l of Presi- earlier but for the North Bengal be [or a short period only; it will dent's rule the Assembly would have floods. The existence of the Shiv assume office only to outmanoeuvre been dissolved forthwith and within Sena and its violent antics do not de- the Prime Minister and recommend [ortyeight hours of her visit Mr Ajoy tract from normalcy in Maharashtra; immediate dissolution of the Assembly Mukherjee would not have met the nor does the daily incidence of vicious and holding a mid-term poll; and Governor to discuss ministry-making. crimes in the city where Mrs Gandhi even during its short spell in office resides. 'West Bengal has always been an unquiet State, though law- lessness here is o[ a different type. Peace Moves It is more political than criminal, and the Government will have to wait till there has been growing evidence of the - eternity if it plans to hold the next Last week the sultry air of New Soviet isolation from the liberation election only when the State becomes Delhi was thick with rumours of struggle in Asia and the resulting politically quiet. West Bengal will another peace offensive in Indo- frustration may have turned the Rus- never be quiet in that sense; nor non- China. The Soviet Deputy Foreig\1 sians towards a peace ,that would stop violent, for violence has entered the Minister, Mr Nikolai Firyubin, who the spread of revolutionary ranks in soul of all political parties in the was on a "friendly visit" to "New Asia under thc leadership of Peking. State, the Prime Minister's own party Delhi, was said to be carrying the Pravda in fact has given vent to its not excluded; no party is left out of proposals for a new Geneva confer- frustrations by accusing China of the all-in bomb-making and bomb- ence for peaceful setttlement of the In- isolating the national liberation strug- throwing spree. All that the Gov- do-China war. Once the Americans gle in Asia from its "genuine allies- ernment can and will do in the name have given a firm pledge of with- the countries of the socialist commu- of restoring normalcy is to indulge dra'vving all troops from Indo-China, some parties and try to suppress nity, the international communist as Mr Firyubin reportedly hinted, all and workers' movement. That revolu- others. the liberation fighters in Indo-China The Prime Minister's plea of law- tionary forces in Asia have been would hurry to negotiate. Although warned in nO uncer,tain terms to be lessness is a ruse. She has gained there was nO confirmation of the ru- time for her allies to continue their on their guard against the imperialis- moured move, New Delhi managed efforts for a mini-front ministry with tic designs of Peking. But in a pointed to find a . place, however small, on the support of her party and ,\"in disregard of ,thc Soviet warning Hanoi the diplomatic map as a relay station over the recalcitrant among the form- applauded :Mao for his "immense en- er constituents o[ the UF who are between \Vashington and Moscow. A couragemcnt and firm support" and &till squeamish o\'er sharing power hangover from the Nehru era. Soon pledged to follow his a{lvice to with the Congress. The Prime Min- however it was discovered that the "persist in and cncrgetically promote ister is banking heavily on the lust Russians have _no reason to the fight to completely defeal~-- for power that the left parties have use India as a go-between when U.S. aggression". General Giap who developed in the last three years; their man in \Vashington, Ana- is frequently dubbed pro-Moscow ancl she hopes that they will surrender if toll' Dobrynin, finds himself very an opponent of protracted war furthcr threatened with deprivation of office much at home there and the hot line underlined Hanoi's faith in Maoist for long. Her reluctance to have any is active. strategy in an article in Nhan Dan. election until normalcy has returned However, the possibility that 1\los- "\ Ve are unafraid of a protracted is an elaborately laid trap. The cbw is out to peddle yet another war", he said. "As proved by reali- Forward Bloc practically walked into peace plan cannot be ruled out. In ties, our strategy of fighting protract- it when its leaders argued with her April last while thousands of Viet- edly has prevailed over the enemy's that law and order could not im- namese civilians Wele being massacred strategy of fighting and winning ra- prove under President's rule because in Cambodia not much by way of pro- pidly." Prince Sihanouk and his permanent officials hesitated to be test was heard from Moscow. Instead guerillas have also refused to slacken firm in a transitional regime. As the it came out 'wlth the proposals for their armed effort. Prime Minister is not going to order calling a new Geneva conference-to The Russians are fast losing their an early poll, the only course open be withdrawn only when Hanoi's hos- cool. In a rec~nt speech in Tokyo to the Forward Bloc to end lawless- tility .to the idea became apparent. the Soviet Japalwlogist, Dmitri Pet- ness and President's rule is to form The latest noise about a peace propo- rov, implied that Moscow does not a mini-front ministry. Parties in sal mayor may not be genuine but tune with the Prime Minister will nOW JULY 25, 1970 FRONTIER can sider Peking to.
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