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Th« Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, July 18, 1967

wForeign News Commentary

By PHIL NEWSOM On the platform behind the speaker, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, reclined against a bolster pillow. Lounging in similar attitudes on the floor nearby were other important members of her government and of the All India Congress party. Sitting on the floor is the

traditional Indian manner and is customary among the leaders at important party gatherings. From out in front an angry babel rose from the 300 delegates attending the session of the ruling party's highest policy making body, the All-Indian Congress Committee. This, too, had become almost customary in Mrs. Gandhi's

year and a half of rule since she took over after the death of Lai Bahadur Shastri who in turn had succeeded her illustrious father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. But there was a difference, : for this time the angry babel | had its basis in fright. It was the first meeting of I the committee since last February’s disastrous elections in

socialism which he espoused and thus, along with other leaders, of contributing to the

party’s defeat.

To Mrs. Gandhi this also was becoming an old story. The trouble was she was caught in a vise from which die

could not escape.

While preaching socialism, no one in the Congress party, including Nehru himself, ever has

which the party lost eight se emed quite sure of what they

states and much of its parlia-

mentary majority.

As her father’s political heir, the delegates accused Mrs.

were talking about. On the other hand, India’s huge problems with food shortages and mounting inflation!

Gandhi of departing from the I also made her susceptible to

outside pressures for monetary reforms which the socialists re-

sist.

Heaviest of these pressures came from the United States and the World Bank, and these within the last year had resulted in devaluation of the rbpee, a relxation in the attitude toward private investment, especially in the manufacture of desperately needed fertilizer and a sweeping liberalization of restrictions on imports. Especially in a plan to use rupees paid to the United States for wheat as an aid to

Indian education, the opposition saw not only Mrs. Gandhi's surrender to imperialism but also the ominous hand of the American CIA. In the end, the rebellious delegates pushed through a number of measures, none of which seemed likely to cure India’s ills. One demanded nationalization of the banks and Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai who also is finance minister, dutifully began his conversations with the bankers. Another would cut off some S8.5 million divided annually among 400 de-

posed Indian princes—less than a drop in the bucket as measured against India’s financial ills. Another demanded a speedup in land reform, and Mrs. Gandhi wrote letters to chief ministers of the states. The trouble here was that giving land to a peasant who had neither the knowledge nor fertilizer to work it, also seemed futile. But that is Mrs. Gandhi’s dilemma.

dresses, Monday announced hit latest creation is a jewelled eye patch for ladies, inspired by Israeli Defense Minister Gen. Moshe Dayan who wears • patch to cover a missing eye.

NEW FAD PARIS UPI—Designer Paco Rabane who created metallic!

MULTIPLE BLESSING GENOA, Ltaly UPI — Mrs. Maria Rita Gariana. 27, a policeman’s wife who recently took fertility drugs, gave birth Monday to quadruplets, two boys and two girls. The quads, the couple’s first children, were bom two months prematurely and named Giuseppe. Giovanni, Rafaella and Lina, doctors said.

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