The Indian Libertarian

Summary

The 15 October 1959 issue of The Indian Libertarian (Vol. VII No. 18), edited by Miss Kusum Lotwala for the Libertarian Social Institute, Bombay, is dominated by the Cold War and by the deteriorating Sino-Indian frontier. The unsigned editorial, ‘China Interferes With Nasser’s UAR,’ reads Red China’s reach into the Middle East against the rivalries of the Communist bloc. M. A. Venkata Rao analyses Khrushchev’s visit to America, M. N. Tholal argues that ‘China Wins the First Round’ in its border confrontation with India, and J. K. Dhairyawan offers a Mark Twain-flavoured ‘Innocent Abroad’ reading of the Khrushchev tour. A signed piece by ‘Democrat’ makes the ‘Case of Comrade Krishna Menon,’ criticising the Defence Minister over the China crisis, and an inserted four-page Economic Supplement carries Prof. G. N. Lawande on Marx’s theory of value and surplus-value. The masthead slogan reads ‘We Stand For Free Economy And Libertarian Democracy.‘

Essays

Khrushchev’s Visit to America

By MA Venkata Rao

M. A. Venkata Rao examines Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the United States and its implications for the Cold War. He weighs the Soviet leader’s overtures, the prospects for coexistence between the American and Soviet blocs, and what the visit signals about the balance of power and the contest of ideologies, reading the episode against the longer arc of Soviet conduct since 1917.

• Analyses Khrushchev’s visit to America and its Cold War significance
• Weighs the prospects for US-Soviet coexistence
• Reads the visit against the history of Soviet conduct
• Considers the contest of ideologies between the blocs

China Wins the First Round

By M. N. Tholal

Opening with a comic allusion to Dickens’s Pickwick Papers, M. N. Tholal argues in ‘China Wins the First Round’ that India has already lost the opening exchange in its frontier confrontation with China. He reviews the preliminary skirmishes and the tens of thousands of square miles at stake, contending that New Delhi’s handling of the dispute has left India at a disadvantage.

• Argues India has lost the first round of the border confrontation with China
• Opens with a Dickensian (Pickwick Papers) framing device
• Reviews the preliminary frontier skirmishes and the territory at stake
• Criticises New Delhi’s handling of the dispute

The “Innocent” Abroad a New Version

By J. K. Dhairyawan

J. K. Dhairyawan’s ‘The “Innocent” Abroad — A New Version’ borrows Mark Twain’s conceit to comment on Khrushchev’s American tour, casting the Soviet leader as a wily traveller rather than a naive one. The piece tracks the propaganda contest between the United States and the USSR that the visit dramatised.

• Uses Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad’ as a framing device
• Comments satirically on Khrushchev’s American tour
• Tracks the US-USSR propaganda contest
• Reads the visit as a battle for the possession of minds

Case of Comrade Krishna Menon

By Democrat

Writing under the name ‘Democrat,’ the author makes the ‘Case of Comrade Krishna Menon,’ indicting the Defence Minister over the conduct of the Service Chiefs and the deteriorating security situation on the China frontier. The piece treats Menon’s handling of defence as evidence of the dangers of his political sympathies.

• Indicts Defence Minister Krishna Menon over the China crisis
• Questions his handling of the Service Chiefs and defence policy
• Reads his conduct against his political sympathies

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