Forum January 20 1952

At the Rome meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Council the Americans incensed by the French nocommittal perhaps obstructive attitude to the question of the dDEFEATED The art of jugglery is the poltician's peculiar preserve. [...] The huge reproduction of the Trimurthy image of Elephanta mounted upon a high pedestal and "Gopuram" in front of the Goernment of India stall represening the famed Dravidian archtecture of old give the Fair an exhilarating atmosphere of the old and the new. [...] According to the estmate of the leader of the Chinese delegation at the fair over a lakh of people visited the Chinese stall within two days of the opening of the Fair. [...] The progress of the Communist China being of special interest to the Indian people for the amazing progress of economic reconstruction in the new China the visitors to this stall perhaps are more than to any other stall in the Fair. [...] Has the Red Star really appeared in the Southern horizon of the country?—that is the question mostly asked in discussion groups here be they in the cloisters of the Secretariat or the college cafes or the public rendezvous indeed even among the fashioable elite of the IDG variety.