Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-27

On the theory that one good
turn deserves another, Clare and
Harris Wofford, jr.. are bringing
to America next month the No. 2
leader Of the Indian Socialist
movement, DR.. Rammanohar
Lohia.
When the young Woffords were
in India in 1949 collecting ma
Iterial for the newly published
India Afire" (see review, DR..
Lohia showed them the best in
his country. They want to do
the same for him in America, and
Mr.. Wofford will pilot the Euro
Ipean-educated head of the Indian
Peasant Union from coast to coast.
The voyage of discovery is being
sponsored by the Foundation for
World Government, under whose
auspices the Wofords made their
Indian expedition.
The Socialist Party represented
to this clear-eyed and articulate
young couple possibly the last and
certainly the best hope for a DEM
ocratic India. Already the Amer
lean sympathy of the Socialists is
well defined. Although not I'M
critical of our foreign policy. they
appear to like us personally and
do not show any Of the emotional
opposition" which has character
lied recent announcements of
midas Prime Minister Nehru.
The head Of the party, Jaipra-
kash Narayan, is the only top In
dian public figure who was edu-
Gated in America. His next in
command, DR.. Lohia, the party's
foreign policy spokesman, regards
all American women as "prin-
cesses" and has written to the
Woffords Of his anticipation OF
"the Joy Of experiencing the
youngest of the most vital people
of this earth"
Wheat for India.
The young Woffords, quite un-
derstandably. have watched Con-
Igress' reluctant, grudging action
on wheat for India with acute
concern. Like many of India's
Iwell-wishers. they have WINGED al
the anti-American remarks oil
Nehru. His recent widely publ
cized praise of a Soviet wheat
shipment, they think, arises partly
from his stubborn refusal to give
up his illusions about Russia
!: partly from a kind of snobbish
upper-class English type resent.
ment of America, which he picked
up during his years in British
schools.
Talking with the Woffords, yor
find that the guarded optimism
!; they express in their book is genu.
line. Although India is in a dan
Igerously revolutionary state, the
situation is not entirely parable.
with that Of pre-Mao China
There the people were faced with
Hobson's choice of the falterine
Chang Kai-shek regime and the
Communists. In India, at least
in the Socialist Party, there is 6
vital democratic opposition.
Great Popular Support.
1.-THE Canadian ideal could b,
carried out very easily and withou
bloodshed," they say, adding a.
corollaries American point-foul
aid and genuine land reform.
i Their friend, DR.. Lohia, they re
port, has enormous popular sup
port and is a hero of the 1874.
Quit India" movement. He 1
: also tireless in needing Nehr,
: about what has not been done !,
the way of domestic reform.
The Woffords, who are both onl,
Is and who have a long record O
:, world federation achievement
(they met as Student Federalists)
have settled in Washington. HI
is attending Howard Law Schoo
: and she is about to take a jol
with the State Department.
/ X X
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!, Iifemen' on the Hilltop
, Just one week in America i1a