The Unshaken General


concrete decisions may be expected only after Ajoy Mukherjee and Jyo- ti Basu have done their Haj in New Delhi. 'Mecca dur ast; even farther away is Washington or Moscow, the new Meccas for developing countries with undecided minds. Public opinion still seems firmly in favour of a non-Congress government pulling together; and no con- LETTER FROM EUROPE stituent of the new team seems impatient to get out and "go it alone", Us the late John Foster Dulles put it and some in West Bengal, include ing perhaps Pramode Das Gupta of the C P I (M), might be inclined to put it. "Consensus" is not an affliction of the Congress Party alone.