Calcutta

Calcutta was a scene of incredible poverty, dirt, and misery. Mr Nehru was doing his best. But it is possible that India is not improving fast enough. To improve any faster, however, it would be necessary to resort to force (as the Russians had to do). There were these two ways of improving; but Mr Nehru preferred the democratic way. But sometimes, one is tempted to ask if the democratic way is moving too slowly. There are people who argue that communism has nothing to do with poverty; and that it is equally possible to have communism spreading in a wealthy state. It could be so. Sir Leslie would say however that in Calcutta, we have the most terrible poverty, and we have a very great advance in communism.