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F Here Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is seen laying the
Oundation stone for the electro-chemical institute at Karaikudi,
°ne of the first projects in India’s continuing five-year plans.

India proceeds with

NEW DELHI
‘ India is to go ahead with
be Second five-year plan de-
ne its economic difficulties,
€ Finance Minister, T. T.
ishnamachari told the In-
@n parliament in Delhi last
Week,

He listed India’s difficulties
the decline in agricultural
Production last year, the
on et, drain than expected
foreign reserves, and the

| “losing of the Suez Canal.

€ also announced increas-
3 Military expenditure, which
ta Said would increase the
. “et deficit. The increase
percent for defense —

Plan despite problems

$530 million as against $425
Krishnamachari estimated
million last year.
India’s total revenue next year
at $1336 million and the bud-
get deficit at just over $56
million, but said that the ques-
tion of new taxes must be left
to the new parliament in May.
Earlier, Home Minister Pan-
dit Pant, answering questions

by Communist MPs, had hint-,

ed for the first time that con-
ditions might arise under which
India would leave the British
Commonwealth.

He said: “I do not rule out
the possibility of our having
to give thought to this.”

Azikiwe urges unity
for Nigerian freedom

ONITSHA

The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons —

gemier

he Eastern
2 total of 4
Other 27 results remain to
a announced. The Action
. we has won eight seats,
ehte hited National Independ-
ents Eau four, and Independ-

*. Azikiwe dissolved the

a
Anita to get he electors’
if °rt for his policy of mak-
e African National Bank
vernment bank. It follow-

|S Criticism j it-
ish inquiry: of him by a Brit

Azikiwe’s party — has won a majority of seats in
Nigeria Assembly election, with 43 seats out of
8

Following his election vic-
tory, Dr. Azikiwwe addressed
an_appeal to his brother prem-
iers of Northern and Western
Nigeria to “co-operate to
accelerate the pace in the race
to complete self-government.”

He said his victory had ”con-
signed to the scrap heap” the
attempted “charter assassin-
ation” against him for his part

in building up the African Na--

tional Bank.

WIN_IN_ KERALA

Communists to form
first Indian gov't

NEW DELHI

The Indian Communist party, which has emerged from the Indian elections
as the largest party in Kerala state legislature, will be called upon to form the first

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Communist or

won 59 of the 116 seats in the legislature, 17

Communist-led administration in an Indian state.

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formed the outgoing government.

China prepares for
advance to socialism

By ALAN WINNINGTON

Results were: Communists
59, Congress 42, Praja Social-
ists, 9, Muslim League 8, Inde-
pendents 6, with two seats un-
reported. The Communists ex-
pect to receive the support of
five of the six Independents.

Kerala, which has a popula-
tion of 13 million, is one of
the new states in South India,
formed last year on language
lines. It includes the former
state of Travancore-Cochin
and parts that were formerly
in Madras.

A. K. Gopalan, leader of the
Communist group in the Lok
Sabha (lower house of the All-
India parliament), who won
election in a Kerala federal
constituency has already out-
lined the policy to be followed
in Kerala,

Speaking in Madras last
week, he pledged that if a
Communist government was
formed in Kerala it would
implement India’s second Five-
Year Plan “sincerely and hon-
estly.”

He asked for cooperation of
both the Congress and the
Praja Socialist parties in the
state in this job.

A Communist government he
said would consult all parties
before introducing any legisla-
tion and would also secure the
broadest support from public
opinion.

The election had “proved the
desire of the Kerala people
for a non-Congress govern-
ment,” he said.

Still incomplete results of
the Indian general election
show that, in addition to
its successes in Kerala, the In-
dian Communist party for the
first time will be represented
in the legislature of every In-
dian state.

(Results for 329 seats in the
Lok Sabha give the Congress
party an overwhelming ma-
jority of 251 as compared to
20 for the Communists, 10 for
the Socialists, and 48 for var-
ious smaller parties and Inde-
pendents.)

The Communist journal New
Age, commenting on the fact
that the Communist party has
won representation in- every
state legislature, declared last
week:

“This itself is a fact of out-
standing significance for the
entire democratic movement.
This is proof itself, if any were
needed, of the growing trust
of the common people in the
Red Flag as the unwavering
defender of their true inter-
ests.”

The Communists

more than the Congress party, which

PEKING

Conditions at home and abroad are favorable for China
to build a socialist industrial country, in the words of a resolu-
tion adopted by the highest body of China’s united front, in the
closing session of the most controversial annual meeting it has

yet held.

The People’s Political Con-
sultative Conference agreed on
all main points. These were:

@ Relaxation of foreign and
domestic tensions gave the go-
ahead on industrialisation.

@ Living standards of the
people must advance in pace
with increased output; and con-
flicts between workers and cap-
italists under China’s Socialist
state must be settled from the
standpoint of unity and critic-
ism.

@ Democracy must be ex-
tended, bureaucracy overcome,
the legal system improved; the
policy of dealing with counter-
revolutionaries was _ correct
“despite some errors in carry-
ing it out.”

'®@ The principal of conten-
stion between different schools

of thought and art must be
encouraged to promote the arts,
the sciences, medicine and the
press at the same time as the
spread of Marxism was en-
couraged.

@ Unity within the socialist
countries around the Soviet
Union must continue to be
strengthened; American polic-
ies of expansion must be op-
posed; peaceful existence and
consultation in all disputes
must be encouraged.

“China wants non-enroach-
ment among nations with dif-
ferent social systems, collective
peace ad peaceful competition,”
the resolution said.

The conference called on
Chiang Kai-shek’s collabora-
tors on Formosa to help in the
peaceful liberation of that
Chinese island.

A-weapons will be

used unless banned’

MOSCOW

Marshal Gregori Zhukov told an army conference here
that if atomic weapons are not -banned they will “inevitably
be used as the basic means of inflicting defeat” in the event

of a serious military conflict.

The Soviet defence minister
also warned that “today there
is not a corner in the world
where an aggressor could con-
ceal himself.”

American imperialists, he
said, were organizing military
bases in Europe and other parts
of the world in the evident
belief that they would “succeed
as before, in sitting back be-
hind the ocean and escaping
crippling and destructive
blows.”

“The Soviet Air Forces are
capable of delivering deva-
Stating blows against any
enemy wherever he might be
and wherever he trieel to hide,”
he warned.

Marshal Zhukov said that the
USSR, in training its forces
“must proceed from the charac-

MARCH 29, 1957 —

ter of the future war,” which
he believed would differ in
many ways from the Second
World War.

“It will flare up against the
wishes of peace-loving peoples
and will be waged in extreme-
ly tense circumstances, on land
at sea and in the air,” he said.
“It will embrace not only the
theatres of military operations,
but the entire deep rear of
the belligerents,

“We consider that-the Soviet
armed forees should be per-
ffectly prepared both for the
anti-atomic defence of our
homeland and our armies and
also for the effective employ-
ment of the atomic and hydro-
gen weapons for. delivering
without delay in case of need
devastating counter-blows.”

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