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INDIA FIRST TASK
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Of A Rare Character
By JOHN MOORE
Was
It was cut hurting that I encountered again that roguish, #noman, remarkable man whom I first saw through the Tuder duck-shooting together in the House window when I was a
The old man evenings, child: "the Colonel," whom 1
bent and badly crippled with lived at arthritis; his jointa had since diservered Breneham, where he had a kubbly as the roots of a tree. Encountered" But this did not prevent him small farm. the right word; for Jerry had from standing waist-deep in iey Put the on a horse which was
water waiting for the evening
were ac
ey which el-fshing lacked.
generally
living caught his basketful of gels, and caten theni for super, the Colonel nailed up the skin on his barn and When they were thoroughly cured he oiled them and cut them into arrow strips and
door
used them for houtlaces. I still pusness a pair; and they are any other laces I have ever
too fical for me, and it was flight. He was sixty-tive, and stronger and more supple than
bul
running away with me down a It would probably be wrong to atcep lane on Brensham Hill suppose
Pandis Nehru's when I met the Colonel coming Iaddress in New Delhi on the for-up on foot. I did the best I the rin service, which the new in- could to arcid him, teria government
to horze was going too fast; thy propaars jestablish, that attention is being sharp toe of my hunting-bout [concentrated in the wrong direc caught him right in the midriff tion. The new era in Indian and he collapsed with a Joud
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it was a wonder he had sur-
vived so long; for he
spent much of his time in the water duck-shooting in the winter, all seasons poltering Aud at shout on his wet and marshy
farm.
The rest of the time he spent in the Swan: "water cutside. my boy, and whisky inside,
seen him crawi along
seen.
The Colonel loathed and de- tested rats. For all other ani- mais, iras, aut fish he had the queer portf paradoxical friend- aybeling that men have for the creaturca they persecute. But rat he abominated. He used to Scer and purposeful, waiting sit for hours with his 22 ride, for the chance of a snop shol
As soon as I had stopped the with to apul:gize. The Colonel had fock of geese, when the ditch at a rat in the dusk. He rigged heavy loss of life, and there are picked himself up, and if you was half full of water so that up in the ral-runa the most in- F
and
Het
זון
DON,
L. THE
spring i vei វាព indications yet of any im- can Imagine an infuriated
at times he was nearly sub-18nious tas
willow twigs with nooses light- portant relaxation of tension, gnome you will understand how
I began to look upon. merged.
ly pegged to the ground: # night he suggested, therefore. Truly formidable he looked.
him as a kind of water-crea
agaan ne wala sit for houra m that befure India worries ahum approached him timidly
ture: a river-god. It was won-
the hope of actually seang a Palestine, Iran, Indonesia, China, penitently, hat in hand. Ioderful to see him coming up
Remits itte springs Siam and Indo-China, about was making a loud spluttering uut if the flooded meadows on
rare occasions when it occu-1 whether or not South Africa may
ncise which was not recognis- a moonlight after duck-flight- able as speech. His long walrus. etatching his way through ed, gave him the m.s calle be permitted to incorporate South-
moustaches bristled; his little West Africa in the Union, about] blue eyes were popping out of the eat ice, amorphous in his rite dought; to
e waders and core-itting flicked high by the straighten- the emancipation of so-called sub-his-head; his face was purple. jacket, deer-stalker hat pulleding twig, wriggling and kicking iect peoples, that India's
w bright purple as a Victoria down ever his eyes. Thus must and swagging the wind, like house be put in order. The Cun plum, and yet it had also a sort the Old Man of the Sea look a highwayman upon the gober
when he comes ashore. gress Party Ministry, about which of pallor of rage which there are many unsatisfactner rather like the binom on a plum features owing to the refusal of "I'm most awfully sorry" | the Moslems to participate. has began; but that was as far as the goodwill of the British people 1 got. If I was timid, my horse in the tremendous task it has un was thoroughly scared. It took HONG KONG-SHANGHAI Monday 30th Sept.
derteken. But Tuesday, 1st Oct.
becaure of its one look at the Colonel, flexed HONG KONG-MANILA
its ears, and shied; then, seiz- magnitude, it will demand the e HONG KONG-BANGKOK Thursday, 3rd Oct.
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From
Until
my
recent
Peace To War
trip
to produced, and
on every
ing the bit between its teeth. of a shot at the greylags, white. us." But whether these were smaller industry, having one had suppened, it is disappoint-
bar.
fy an historic experiment in the Meeting In The Bar Transfer of power by proving it!
A few days afterwards 1 met self capable of establishing order, the. Colonel again in the Swan jof finding a solution to the vast
economic problems that face. India It was just before noon. The as the aftermath of war and bar was empty and I settled above all, of governing with such myself in a chair in the corner ven-handed justive as will dispel with a pint of beer and "The the black cloud of mistrust with Times" which happened to he lying on one of the tables. A which the, minority communities,
moment inter the Colonel an! regard the accession to power offered. He took off his battered
Hinda Executive:
"Sir." he said, "are you
of his
In his very last days rats obsessed him; and he wrote te no a short time before he dist a post card in waten Gecurreu the phrase, tvice underfined: any hardship, endure the ut- most privation, for the chaned "Rats are getting at my wal-
which em rats er erva antes fronts, and pick-feet came to cur meadows in great
locks during the late winter.j When he had located a flock he would sit down and seriously plan a campaign against it. "You've got to think like # goose."
Then, because I was silent; he would look up and see my smile; his face would crum ble away into that marvellous grin, and he'd say: "Well, per- hapa I do, perhaps I do."
if there was „pnow.
on
fantasy do not know.
He, who with infinite
care
$1,000 the United States, I had supposed incoln. Even if they could get that the American conversion of their production up to 100 per industry from war to peace was cent, they would still not be mak- at least eighteen months ahead of ing a profit. that of Britain. However, what Though it is, in one sense, en- saw and heard while I was there couraging to an Englishman to makes me think that this gap is discover that American industry
tho has not got
Immense lead far
American war nothing to fear front air attacking from the world point of view. was planned on a cigantic scale Certainly, for the next three ter
four
be a sellers" years, there will and wonderful cunning would which of necessity, makes its re-
and conversion, to peacetime produe market, and everything that can set ins springs for "rats mice and such smail deer" had on a diet and complicated be produced anywhere will And an immediate sale. The world has once been a famous hunter of undertaking. And, in many cas25,
Habits engendered the war factories are unsuitable desperate need of every form of Dig game.
consumer goods, and only large- by long days on shikar never,
scale production can ultimately always noticed; left him; he
check the inflationary. tendencles which are widespread today. If American Industry were free from Lotprints, for example, and he
strikes, even for six months, the
was more than a maten 10 any aamtearish 1 uur kocal and poachers,
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Must Meet
the coal strike, have affected out- The Issue
I have been waiting for · bearstime production. In flow at reols that would be pro- the
Britain in the other hand, the dued would not only entlafy the ground he would wear his six with ban on his fan when e fer's nightdress for camouflage, has picked up and pocketed unnecessity for the dispersal of war-home market but provide an abun deer-stalker. hung it up on a
cartridge case.time Industry resulted in a diver- dart surplus for export. For success in all these direc- per behind the door, and ad- covering his hat with a white unfamiliar
friensity and Buxibility which now in tions a change of mind and heart vanced towards the bar. He handkerchief. Out of the white. That belcage to our
Secondly, American production is essential. For a quarter of a caught sight of me, his brightness his red face glowed and Mr. Sparrow That night in the proving advantageons.
IL sun rising swan he handed it back to the angrily, he burned like
think, has been severely held back by
which entury the men who now held blue eyes stared
have through the mist on the river wretched Sparrow.
in my large-scale strikes the reins of office have preached took three purposeful steps in
He was even at sixty-five-sir, that you left this
last Satur- paralyzed no injustry after an- contempt of law and order. The my direction.
the best shot I have ever seen, ten-acre meadow
Sparrow never poached ther. The steel strike, and now majority of them have purely aware that you are sitting in parably the best fisherman. Yet the Celine's land again.
the best naturalist, and intomy, denied themselves the opportuni- my seat?"
put in scores of other industries. One day I was driving with Kritalo, however, has |ties of learning administration hustily apologized-he was his fishing tackle was almost as
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,
Sept 28. that were open to them. They really a very terrifying old primitive as a schoolboy's. His tim in a rackety old car singularly free frein aarious 14- have now to rely on the loyalty gentleman-and moved to greenheart fly-rod, which must when he drove with ferce and bour unreet. This undoubtedly is
Under-Secretary, of War. Ken- have been as old as himself, anderous recklessness when largely the result of there being
They were The workers, having voted their full production by the United had a kink in the middle Joint we came across three enormous Labour Government in wer.neth C. Royall declared today that wh rouresentativen into office, are States would inevitably tend to and two kinks in the top joint: turds on the roud.
to rive the promote better relations with it was nearly as crooked as un simply tatuminous: they were
other nations through increasing But in his hands it apple-bough, or its cwner's legs. super cow-pats. I was astonish-naturally - dienosed magic wand with which would conjure up fishes His mons- nobody else could
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A RUSHFORD,
Löndót, RAFVE.
Would you care to read the paper, air? I said.
He glared at me.
tache twitched. He looked a8 thing.
cutch
Price Controls
been
foreign trade and thus helping to preserve peace.
of police forces that have been a neighbouring chair. He grunt- main target of their anti-governed, ordered a whisky, and sat ment propaganda, and of an arm down. I thought I would piacate whose outstanding achievements him, and show deference to his in the war have earned little bus Frizzled hairs. I folded up "The
# was ed and led with wonder: but new Government a fair chanez. their abuse. In the administra-Times."
he the Colonel, swerving to avoid when them, was scarcely moved. "Hm
In a speech delivered bfore the tive field they have to restore the
and
Ship-Builders' Unioni The third comparative dis- Marine and efficiency of public services, wine
my.clephant," he said;
sue enLugh just round the bend advantage from which American Royall the American post-
SAID authority they have done much to
In the little brock which ran of the road we came upon a industry is suffering seems to be tion in the world today is more its record of weaken. They have to plan z if he were about to spring s
the undue insistence upon price dependent upon better life for a population that if he would leap over
table, through his farm, a mere run-avening circus.
at any other nel
lie was eccentric, pugnacious, contrais. In Britain, very rigid achievement than overgrown with reeds,
previous time. by its growth threatens to outrun chairs, whisky and all to as-
bushes, and willows, he dis and often rude; but everybody price controls have been maintain.
Full production can help pre- the incans of subsistence, and sauit me.
covered a few trout where liked him, and I loved him and upon the primary necessities
of life.
such as rent, food and
serve peace. Royall said, because mument under the "It is for that purpose, siv,"
have found
other nations will know that if an icssr men would
hut the prices of most voice. threat of famine. A party the he said in a dreadful
a quarter of a century has that I order it to be deliver only bull-heads, gudgeons and He enuight two or three
allowed to rise and a much-needed end the planes and the guns and preached and practised oppositioned here every morning."
every season in the mayfly time, Mr. Benjamin, who was a great stimulus to uroduction has thus the bombs which will meet any was utterly abashed. 1
ressive effort that can be put to government has now to learn
using only the top jet of his fancier of spaniels, expressed been provided. passed him the paper with
against us." to rule. Some measure, of British mumbled apologies and tried to
What the whole world needs at forward rod and dabbing a dy between what we all seit when he said
The Secretary said the United the branches. The biggest was to me, long after the Coloner's this moment is production. One esponsibility remains. The new hide myself behind my beer. He
State
the issue of meet the States must and death: "It's like this, Jchu; it's would have expected that two and a half pounds, Government works under the was indeed a terrible
tatalitarianisma within this coun
existing Constitution, and then winderful cft man;
we get it cut from between the the same with men and dogs. United States, with a limmens and !
decisively
mast not, in peacetime, "use tho retically recognises the authority { coulda't help admiring hia gos.
roots of a great willaw, I swear! You can look back upon your industrial capacity, would have try by Democratie methods and
ahead. It is, of Parliament. Until a new Con- ture in having the paper that no other man could have life and even if you've known one
demn in other nations."-Assecipt- stitution has been framed by in-vered to the pup, where after lunded it in such circumstan- hundreds there's one stands out. therefore, disappointing to find Polley of tyranny which we con-
There's one which makes all that much of American Industryed Press. dians and has received assent at ill he spent half his time. (The
Original Fisherman the others seem not to matter is turning over at only about half
apeed. Westminster India will not leave other half was spent in
I've and one dog like that, it was particularly struck with The Colonel didn't mind what as a black cocker called Sweep, this when I visited Detroit. I had Pursuit of various anímals,
for so long ALAS
for
and it
the
eels.
ces..
it
Ane were my father. I have clofactured gouts have been anergency arises, "we can again.
never met anybody like him, and i
don't suppose I ever
shay.
I
the Cabinet Mission. But the The Times" would have been awam, what he hunted so long and I'd give twenty pounds just last, been there in 1942, when it Pressmen
an encumbrance.)
The Colonel Melts
I became aware that he was
n his old chair."
Ford Costs
Not Naive
full independence, so stressed by birds, and fishes, during which he shed
rer one Sunday afternoon walk was a great arsenal of democracy freedom of action conceded to
na it ran, nor what he shot so
with Sweep at my heels. And and was pouring qut a huge flood the new Ministers leaves theig in
Jong as it could fly. There were the position of architects of the
cels in his brook as well in Ive known one niam like that, of tanks and aircraft. One had out of all the thousands I've only to see the production figures
Moscow, Sept. 26. immédiate future. Almost the staring at me over the top of trout, and it was his custom to met, and I'd give a hundred then to know that tho victory at
"Pravda" sald today that tho first of their obligations is to his paper. I felt very frighten fah for them on Sunday after din just to buy him a drink the Allies was curtain.
six American Congressmen who bring into existence the body that ed indeed; but as he alowly noona, an otherwise barren time again and see him sitting there
mude a report recently on con- vill evolve the new Constitution lowered the paper I perceived when there was no hunting anu-
ditions in the Orlent, "loft. Only by compromise and concilia that his extraordinary face was no shooting and the. pub was
Indomitable Figure tion will it be possible to secure undergoing a metamorphosis, A shut. His method of faint would be worth it: to see
Today, it in a very different Washington undoubtedly with a the willing co-operation of the thousand wrinkles appeared alt
story. Denson Ford, who shawer defiolte task-to oppose the was original (for the Colone
me around the Ford factory, to'd facts of American militarism "Russlan minority communities
with fiction about in that gvor it, as If a catspaw of wind was nothing if not experimentai come hobbling through the work. Without that co-operation blew across the sea. Ilia blue in his approach to every kind door into the Swan bar prompt me that automobile production is
eyes disappeared between folds of uport). He used no less thany at six on winter's night, only at haff of capacity. At the threats." we shall he witnessing not
(Six Congressmen returned the dawn of a new era but auareliv.
or red weather-beaten skin. Ilis cheap cane rods, which he dripping wet, kelpie-like, amor-presest price Agures set by the turkey-cock neck shook and distributed at intervals attg phpus, a couple of mustard bui] Covernment, the Ford company recently from a six weeks ins- in ng out of his "poacher's poc losing $180 on every Ford cat peeion trip and said quivered. I suddenly Pauline the bunk.
Washington Just Thursday that GAG RULE
that he was laughing. Out of lie lhes were baited with neta, decistalker over his eyes.
the United States must streng la epen mouth came suddenly Iob-worms.. To each rod-point) ith peels eft his waders with
then its military and political The peace conferenco voted cl clear and morry laughter he fixed a small bell,, such an grúnts and curses, damning his
Ho sits own in his familiar position in the Pacific: They without discussion at a special 48 I. lud nover head before, might hang 'round the neck out joints, coys, its go-
the ing to freeze sharpist," and you chair and takes a long drink urged the building of a strang as the Grocks a cat. He sat down in general desalon to Imposo such laughter
and stretches his logs; and you ring of defences within striking "gag rule" on itself in order to called Ionian laughter, which middle of the line of rols, know that it wit treeze an Apocal complotion by October 15 matched the mirth of the Anfoked his pipe, and took an uan, because he is never wrong can hear his knoo-joints crack distance of Russle). 357 is tusk of writing the peace lepian spyings. It was rar necasional swig out of his pakabout the weather, ho feels it ling. You can see him winco; "Pravda said it might bo Whenever the in his bones, he eniffs it with but however sharp, the pain ho supposed: that the Congressmen treaties.
and beautiful and unexpected of whisky: The session was oponed by [ughter, and I was entranced. tinkle-tinkle of a bell called him his nostrils, he is one with the will not confer it, he is in-had "beccmo victims of Ameri- the surprins' Greek withdrawal 4 I had been entranced by his : from his pleasant occupation, wind, and the rain and the domitable, and he finds some can militarists' who impressed of demands against Alhania mischievous grin, Afteen years he strolled leisurely to the ap- frost and the sun, he is 'protean. thing funny even in his own theluncritical listeners with followed by bitter comments before, through the nursery propriate rod and landed his cellIt's looting, tapioca airendy, infruity,” His wonderful Zoid övident norisenserind rot, with from the Deputy Boylet For Windows I said that the belis, beside, ho jayksikör ho nha" his own face integrates into the mer-obvicus provocative afm.
vivid pürich. for everytzmantotaiat set up an ever-eagle – This is unfounded the baina yendoir made,
"Paris, Sept. 27.
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