Nehru was hitting back at his political enemies. By last week, it was clear that they had overreached themselves when they tried to break his hold on the All-India Congress Party (TIME, July 30) and caused him to resign from the party's Working Committee (a sort of Congress Party Politburo). Giddy with what looked like victory, Party President Purushottamdas Tandon, who controls the largely corrupt Congress political machine, violently attacked and insulted Nehru. He had reckoned without Nehru's tremendous popularity with the Indian masses.
Public reaction throughout India was solidly in favor of Nehru. With India's first...
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