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SECURITY
ARCAIVES AND
RECORDS
- 2 -
SERVICE"
:- GOTERN
impressive successes. Final results for Traveneore-Cochin show that the
communists and their allies have obtained 32 seats to h4 for the Congress
Party, the latter having failed to obtain an absolute majority. As of the
moment, the communists and their allies have obtained 42 seats in Hyderabad
to 93 for the Congress Party and 56 seats in Madras to 140 for the Congress
Party. The Congress Perty leadership has been shaken by these results
which show that commust agents are successfully exploiting hunger and
poverty.
In the immediate future the Congress Perty will have control of the
Central Parliament and majorities in most of the state assemblies; but if
perceptible progress is not made in the economic field during the next
two or thres years, the ecomunist campaign to subvert India will almost
certainly enjoy increasing success. Subversion of India vould, of course,
place other free Asian countries in almost untenable positions and hasten
the day when all of the Asien land-mase, with nore then a billion people,
would fall into the Soviet bloc.
Furthermors, a demonstration that democracy works in India would be
of inestimable value in offsetting propaganda from China about the successes
of the communist regimo in improving the economic position of its people.
Absence of progress in India in the economic sphere would only result in
serious loss of political stability, which would lead inevitably to rising
dissatisfaction fanned by subversive propaganda.
Pakistan's noed for assistance is correspondingly great and equally
urgent. At the present moment we believe that the proposed program for
Pakistan should be directed towards the following general areas for which
preliminary estimates of dollar costs have been developeda Agriculture,
forestry and fisheries, about $23 aillion, in which the importent items
would be tube wells, fertiliser imports, fara implements imports, reclamation
and irrigation projects, and the erection of 5 fertilizer plan; education
about $3 million; porer and other national resources development, about
$5 milliong hoalth and smitation, about $1.5 million; and other miscellaneous
technical assistance projects and joint surveys of less than $1 million.
Pakistan, strategically athwart the historic invasion route to the
subcentinent, has exhibited strong pre-Western attitudes which have been
especially helpful to the United States in United Nations affairs, and the
internal situation in Pakisten on the surface has a peared to be fairly
stable. It should be remembered, however, that last year the Chief of Staff
and other high any officers vere arrested on the eve of an attempted coup
to take over the government. Their triel is still in progress, but it is
kenom that communists vere involved in the conspiracy. In the fall of 1951
the Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assessinated, and athough the new
Prime Minister assumed offico without internal strife, there is growing
evidence that there has been subatantial loss of leadership in the country.
Momwhile, the extrenely low staddard of living invites communist propaganda
an d subversive tactics. Like India, therefore, Pakistn must show progress
in the economic sphere.
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