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Fascists today

Sir, — There can be no disagreement with the statement of the Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, which you have quoted with approval in your Editorial (April 24) that ``Fascism is like the plague bacillus which never dies or disappears for good — it may be dormant for some time before one day deciding to rouse up its rats''. As if by coincidence, a news item in your issue of the same date reported about several leaders accusing India's ruling party of trying to impose `fascist' rule on the country, demanding immediate resignation of the Prime Minister and declaring: ``We are not going to repeat the history of early 20th century Germany when Hitler came to power without having a majority''.

K. Vedamurthy,
Chennai

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