Election time was coming around again in little Kerala state, where the Communists had ruled for 28 months until the Delhi government put a stop to violence there by ousting the Communist regime by presidential decree. Though few thought the Communists could overcome this legacy of hate, India's big Congress Party last week was sending in its biggest guns for the campaign, just in case. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself flew in to address the voters in Kerala, and party pennants fluttered from thousands of flagpoles and coconut trees.
The Congress Party had teamed up with two bitter political rivals,...
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