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dated May 12, 1958: Communism in India

The future of Communism in India was among the points discussed by Prime Minister Nehru in a talk with the Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent in Delhi published in London on May 10. Mr. Nehru is reported to have agreed that the main danger before India might be not so much that Communism would spread as that the Congress party would get weaker without Communism necessarily getting stronger. Dealing with the broader aspects of the issue raised by the Communists, Mr. Nehru continued: “We do not quarrel with many of their aims but with their methods and above all with the use of force. Even Communism cannot succeed by coercion alone. The human spirit and the national spirit will rise up against it.”

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