Centennial Stresses

of facts denied to others, but his recent comments on the activities of the communists, even though part of an electioneering campaign, will be treated as significant. The Home Minister is not given to subtleties and usually means what he says. We can only hope that political management of the post-socialist phase will not mean a drastic curbing of the democratic process. The Naxists are too obvious and too easy, in excuse.