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Nehru N By S. G. ROY United Press International NEW DELHI (UPI) India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is at last facing up to the crucial question: after him who? The question has been raised many times before by news men, by opposition political leaders, even by members of his own Congress party and Nehru has always avoided a di rect answer. In a democracy a man docs not nominate his own successor, he says. Yet as he approaches his 74th birthday, Nehru knows that he now must answer the question in some form so if he should suddenly be disabled, India would not be thrown into panic because of a political vacuum. Nehru is the unquestioned leader of India today, just as he has been ever since this nation achieved independence from the British in 1947 after years of struggle and turmoil. He has such popularity that even after the Communist Chinese invaded Indian territory last year and MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, B b earing Time When He Must Answer Question of Successor 1 ftp fc- (JO CM, POLITICAL LEADERS Shown above are four Indian political leaders, anyone of whom could be a successor to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. They are (left to right): Agricul- made a shambles of Nehru's I important matter. To be found neutralist policy, there was no in his "quiet order" served Aug. turo Minister Sadashir Kamoj Patil, Finance Minister Morarjl Desai, Home Minister Lai Badahur Shastri, and Communica tions Minister Jagjivan Ram. (UPI) public outcry for his resignation. Right or wrong, there was no political successor ready to step in. Nehru has now given an ink ling of his thinking on this very Mental Retardation To Be Spotlighted At National Event By NEIL A. MARTIN United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - Men ial retardation, a condition that affects more than 5 million Americans, will be spotlighted nationally Sept. 19 when more than 200 state and federal of ficials gather at Warrenton, Va., 40 miles west of here. Representatives from each state will meet with key govern ment officials to discuss plans and programs to alleviate and prevent the problem. The two-day conference has the strong endorsement of Pres ident Kennedy. The President and his family have been active in focusing public attention on retardation. Their interest also is personal. One of Kennedy's sisters, Rosemary, is retarded and is being cared for at a private school in Wisconsin. Donated About $1 Million Since establishment of the Ken nedy Foundation in 1046, the family has donated an estimated $1 million annually to foster re search in retardation, which the chief executive has called a ma jor national health, social and economic issue. Members of Congress also have taken a deep interest in it and three bills are currently awaiting action. The retarded include both adults and children who are ab normally slow in thought and action. Officials say the problem is vitally significant because it strikes twice as many individ uals as blindness, polio, cere bral palsy and rheumatic heart disease combined. In a message to Congress last February, Kennedy called for "a bold new approach." "The American people," he said, "have an obligation to pre vent mental retardation when ever possible and to amelio rate it when present." A Personal Victory The Warrenton conference represents a personal victory for the administration, which has encouraged more comprehen sive state planning and closer coordination with federal agen cies. Kennedy sent personal tele grams to all governors asking them to send delegates. Dr. Stafford L. Warren, special presidential assistant, said the response was "extremely en thusiastic." "Never before in my experi ence with national conferences has such a unanimous national reaction taken place." he told UPI. "The meeting will produce fruitful results for five and one half million people." The two days of the meeting will be broken up into morning, afternoon and evening sessions, with speeches and reports by medical and governmental of ficals. These will include War ren, Anthony J. Celebrezze, sec retary of Health, Education and Welfare, and R. Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps and president of the Ken nedy Foundation. The delegates will learn what grants are available to the states under existing federal re search programs. Pending legis lation also will be explained. On Aug. 27, the House passed a bill which would set up $30 million in grants annually to combat retardation through pre natal and infant care. It also would earmark $2.2 million to help the states plan action. An other bill to provide research and care facilities is awaiting House rules committee action. Only Few Programs Prior to this year, officals said the states had only a few pro grams that provided funds for research and care facilities. Warren said the bills point up an "awareness that meeting the medical, social, educational and vocational needs of the mentally retarded calls for a continuous, unremitting and long-term ef fort." The measures are based largely on recommendations by the President's panel on retarda tion which last year appraised existing state, federal and pri vate programs. The panel estimated the cost of caring for those afflicted at about $550 million a year, plus loss to the nation of several bil lion dollars in economic output. 24. On that date, he ordered six of his cabinet ministers to re sign in order to take on political assignments for the ruling Congress party in their home districts. Of the six to go, two are juniors and have little standing in the party. But the four others are tried, able and efficient ad ministrators, and each one has a substantial band of followers. Had they remained in the cab inet, in an emergency each one would have been a contestant for the leadership of the party and of India itself. These four "possibiles" reck oned to succeed Nehru are: Fi nance Minister Morarji Desai, Communications Minister Jag jivan Ram, Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, and Food and Agriculture Minister Sadasiv K. Patil. Their ranking in the cab inet followed this order. Ordered to Silderness Of the rour ordered to the "silderness," only two have fair prospects of staging a come back to the cabinet Lai Baha dur Shastri and Sadasiv Patil. A year ago, Morarji Desai was considered the most prob able successor to Nehru. A stern man in many ways, he has late ly angered many of his Cong ress party colleagues because he has been found to be com pletely blind to public opinion. He is branded as a "right reactionary" by the so-called Nehruites of the Congress parly. The conservatives, once his sup porters, are having second thoughts over his administrative ability. The moderates would not support him because he is too unaccommodating. There is doubt, too, if Nehru likes him at all. Third Man Considered The third man in the present hierarchy, Jagjivan Ram, be longs to the scheduled castes. This, of course, is no bar to his becoming the prime minister. Of all the ministers, he has been the single constant factor in the Nehru cabinet which has seen quite a few changes during the 16 years it has been in power. But because of certain admin istrative lapses, which are talked about but not written in to a charge sheet, Jagjivan Ram is no longer so popular with the party. In any cabinet reshuffle he was almost certain to be sent out. The choice of the successor to Nehru would have to be made, then, from the two remaining "possibles," the fourth and fifth men on the present cab inet, Lai Bahadur Shastri and Sadasiv Patil. An Able Organiier Patil, 63, is an able organizer, an eloquent and effective speak er, a ruthless opponent, a man of action and quick decisions, and one who believes in get ting things done. If India needs a strong man after Nehru, then his star will certainly smile on him. He has a sizeable following in the Congress party. But he is a controversial figure. Those of his partymen who are oriented to the Nehru way of thinking are hostile to him. Since he is in telligent, efficient, and unlike Morarji Desai a strong leader, they consider him their greatest obstacle on the road to social ism. The men who steer the middle course between the rightists and the leftists in the Congress party and ultimately it is they who win matter in tne choice ot Nehru's successor will not come out for Patil because he is not acceptable to all the party factions. Compromise Personality It is here on the question of who will be the compromise subscribes to some of the out dated ideas of the Congress such as liquor prohibition, he is no faddist. In short, he is a typ ical Indian gentleman. If, as the president of the' Congress, he is able to pull up ! the organization and put an end to the incessant arguments be tween factions, or at least to re duce these to a harmless mini as the "redeemer" of the flag ging ruling party. It will be time i then for Nehru to call him back to the cabinet as his next man. By that time, too, his two sen-! lots in the present cabinet hierarchy, Morarji Desai and Jagjivan Ram, will not be pres ent to challenge his position. This perhaps, is the real sig nificance of the Nehru plan to draft ministers for undramatic party work in the hinterland. personality that Lai Bahadur is mlmli he will establish himself likely to outstrip otners wno may be in the running for the country's leadership after Nehru is gone. The 59 - year - old, short statured, unassuming Lai Bah adur has a knack of pleasing al most everyone. From Allahabad, Nehru's home town, he has steadily built up a position for himself in the party. For all practical purposes he is next to Nehru now, even though he may rank fourth in the cabinet in the order of sen iority. Today, he is Nehru's first adviser. Not only is he liked by all the factions of the ruling party, he also is respected by all sec tions of the opposition including the communists. He is consid ered neither too much of a soc ialist, nor too much of an ad vocate of free enterprise. He is the man who admirably fits in with the mixed economy pattern of India, and also with this country's policy on alignment in the east-west political struggle. In Moribund Condition According to present plans, Nehru will ask Lai Bahadur to head the organizational wing of the ruling party after he is re lieved of his ministerial respon sibility. As the president of the Congress it will be his job to re vitalize the national organization which at the moment is in a j moribund condition. i Lai Bahadur looks like a man ! with a soft heart. But he can be strong, even stern, when the oc casion demands it. Although he ANNOUNCEMENT! 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