Red Retreat

With great to-do last June, India's Communist Party shifted headquarters from Bombay to Madras. Reason: in the general elections, the Reds had scored their biggest vote in Madras state and in adjoining Travancore-Cochin and Hyderabad (they got 12 1/2% of the Madras vote compared to 4 1/2% of all India's).

With little to-do last week the Communists shifted headquarters again, from Madras to New Delhi. Probable reason: an effective anti-Communist program in Madras (including land reform, an alliance of non-Communist parties against the Reds, close police watch on Red activities). The program is being carried out by Madras' tough old (73) Chief Minister Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, an old crony of Gandhi's and Indian Communism's self-styled "Enemy No. 1."

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