Naveen Patnaik, a vocal proponent of a non-Congress, non-B.J.P. alliance and the chief minister of Odisha, told the Indian magazine Tehelka in March, "I certainly feel the need for a third front as the U.P.A. is scam-ridden and the N.D.A. is communally tainted".
Karat has renewed calls for a "third front" alternative to the two leading coalition alliances but is unclear if this has any traction in 2014.
After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin began pressing for the creation of a second front in Western Europe.
Politically he was always left-wing, and was criticised for supporting Russian Communism - in, for instance, supporting the opening of a second front in Europe in 1942 to help out the Red Army.
Russia can not only inflict damage on the U.S. in Syria, it could also attack U.S. allies in Eastern Europe, creating what in effect would be a third front for the U.S. military worry about.
Now that Downing Street's mad marketeers are in retreat - both in privatisation of community health services and their plan for new trust schools - there is a third front where their proposals are equally destructive and need radical change: probation.
The "Brain Trust" started Jan . 1 , 1941when Allied forces were in a state of boredom waiting for a second front.
Margaret Smith, the granddaughter of then mayor Emily Smith, remembers that her grandmother used to receive petitions from communists calling for a "second front" to be opened.
In mid-August 1942, when Churchill went to Moscow to break the news, Stalin raged against the retreat from the plan for a second front in Europe but had to admit the military logic of "Torch".
In an attempt to reassure Israel, Putin told Netanyahu that his fears of Syrian and Iranian aggression in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory but occupied by Israel, were unfounded, adding the Syrian army "has no time for a second front".
And even with much of the Germany army occupied with fighting the Red Army, FDR had to employ his fabled charm to the fullest, not to mention promises of American supplies, to fend off Stalin's years-long demand for a "second front" of American and British Empire forces on the European continent.
