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Americans are brought up to believe that the United States is the freest country in the world. It may be that on balance they are right, in spite of the fact that 1 American officials-and in parti- cular, the police-are sometimes apan behave as if they were the masters rather than the servants In the public. In this respect the English, bo always keep their fficials in very good order, are probably-freer than the Ameris cans. There is, however, one per
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19-17.`
The Crisis In India
Ex-
(2) The passionately partisan nature of politics centering in New Delhi, hotbed of conflicting creeds und
concepts. There the plosive sue of the moment i the framing of a national com stitution to which large minority groups have indicated they would not subscribe.
Violent Demands
Calcutta, Feb. 2 ences of the Hindu majority and Impartial opinion in India be- the Meslent minority and the un lieves that the critical period of willingness of one to be dominat- the country's struggle betweened by the alber. Hindu and Moslem factions will come within the next several months, possibly during the fires half of 1947.
Answers to the question "Wil. there be civil war in India?" are reserved. It is pointed out that the fighting beginning in August was in reality civil war because it involved the bitterest kind of hand-to-hand conflict by large
(3) The question of the Brit! numbers having opposing political position. Nationalist objection te and religion fire figures.
precepts. Casualties | Britisia domination has taken the.
for En
form of violent demands Any new flareup of hatred and immediate relinquishment of all bloodshed would be simply a con- overgess authority. The British finuation of such warfare. Re-stand is that the Government, will gardless of its scale, it may be turned over only when the considered s form of civil war indian demonstrate themselves until an
an authority capable nitratable of establishing a popular maintaining a permanent neues egnue enjoying, the conndence ut
stablished.
ail groups. The question These are the potent factors of Dominion status för india is also the confused Indian situation-
Important, (1) The fundamental anit ditThr- seemingly irreconcilable
Japan's Dreams
Of 1942
is
for
lor
pt
The Arm Moslem demanit Pakistan autonomous Mu hamaméuan state of states withi inaia. A. Jinnah and other Mostem leaders suggest a corridor connecting a geographically divil- LE Pakistan extending cleat across india from sind to Bengal.
Each 1950e must be settled in
insting peace is
is to restored
be
and obviously calls for a great deas or compromise.
Une scrises that the bitterness," "costing a least 17,000, lives in four month with not be dispelled easily.
Russia's
a's attitude toward India
sonal liberty which Americans, in By A, C. BRACKMAN is seldom mentioned by Indian
Femmon with the citizens of near- y all other countries, last during the war, and which they are being | very slow to Treover. This is the
right to travel
abrand with or without the consent of their Goy emment. This right is one of the
nist precis
and fundamental
citizen
Tokyo, Feb. 2. sive policies in January, 1942,
In discussing future aggres
Japanese leaders
expressed "great restraint" when refer- rig to war against India.
but a few my privately they think the Soviet is keenly waten- Ing Southeast Asia and might situation worsens. play an "uppurtunist" role if th
That was the gist of a secret message sent from the German Embassy in Tokyo to the Ger- matt Foreign Office in Berlin, made public at the War Crimes of course.
the Germans they could
Japanese military men told weapons.
India proceed against Australia at the same
be
CARNIVAL
DOG
2+2=4
2-1-4
KATZ
By Dick Turner THE LASKI
„1946my nła stevicR, INC., TM, REG, U, I PAT
"Whaddya mean, I'm wrong? Don't I live right next
door to 'em?”
Moscow Is An Old Lady
*
at Moscow, Feb. 2. The Moscow that visitors to the Foreign Ministers'. Confer- ence will meet in March is an old lady.
her
75 per year out of the tion would not be able to es- and three eight metal arrow-; feve her her visitors are
the
5.
Opportunity Lost
a
REVERSE
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
New York
election
The dismissal of the bel action brought by Prof. Harold Laski against the Newark (England) Advertiser was humiliating political reverse for the the former chairman of British Labour Party.
During the general last year, the "Advertiser," reporting on a meeting which Laski addressed' in Newark, stated that he had recommend. ed "revolution with violenica." The English libel law, though severo imprecise, is far more than that of the United States and affords far more protec tion to those who may be un justly attacked. But libel tions based on the allegation, that speaker has been. mis- quoted are extremely rare and, as the upshot of this one shows, the professor was. 'most
Ho advised to bring his case. will have to pay both his own and the defendants'. crata, which can scarcely amount to. less than fifty or sixty thou- sand dollars.
AC-
It is not only his Conservi tive political opponents who will take satisfaction in the re- buff administered to the Laski's egregious professor.
In Muscovy's case the ravages mischievous activities in
are those of opportunity
Inel field
BRA
one of the most impressive ar
Like a diamond brooch matriarchal
Secretary Ernest
the
For- Bevin
else, can
of foreign politics have Medieval Scale.
and neglected, imposed by the been as embarrassing to Civil war in India in the atomis
invasion that swept to the eign com
city's outskirts. The Soviet 15 ke would be fought on
were those of former US. She is large. She weaIS plan to rehabilitate, redecorate Secretary of Commerce Henry paratively medieval scale. Th only important weapons are in
now and repaint Moscow for of all human liberties. In totali
the hands of British and India
net-fine dress which is
Wallace to Secretary of State faded and torn Trom work frst time since revolutionary tarian countries, of course, it does
military forces and they could around the house. Her
James F. Byrnes, Laski, byntu hands times were long delayed by the
will his defeat in the courts. used ot exist at all. The penalty for
effectively
are rough and
fingers war and now that job takes n against those having only crud
HEW become as politically dis- a Russian citizen who leaves the Trial here. Telephone No. 28600
a lifetime Knurled with
of law priority compared with the Soviet Union without the per
of homer credited in Britain as Wallace not The August Massacre in Cal
wearily brushes essential rebuilding cheres! She mission of his government is
and cutta was carried out largely with strings of hair out of he, eyes for the people of Leningrad, is in the United States.
The verdict, will have P death. More than a year has
time. Sund
suen
weapons impromptu
and smiles for visitors She Stalingrad and scores of other passed since the British Foreign but must pause after the con- subs, brickonts
knives, daggers, wooden staves,
gives the impression of a heart cities and the restoring of in- beneficial effect inside the Party. bottles of zelf
Parliamentary Labour Office, under the liberal direction quest of Singapore and Burmand implements of arson.
an indomitable dustry. of gold and
Plainly speaking, Moscow Laski represents the doctrinaire of Mr. Bevin, abolished the exit since "the push toward
British thetically all the firearms used be-spirit that keeps her uning in
ridless household chores,
badly needs 4 new cont of Marxist wing of the permit and any British subject south is more important and of longed to the police or military.
Like other old ladies she is paint. There is evidence, of Socialists; they are the most can obtain a passport today mere- greater use."
Illustrating this crudeness of
for pressing The Indian ly by payment of a nominal fee.
National Con weapons
Bombay policum little incongruous in, dress. ut and decay in buildings. The ardent advocates
structures forward with the socialization gress was opposed to Japan, the showed
but the very incongruities re-interiors of many me three home-made It is true that this liberty is some-
darts hurled at him while he was flect her personal pride and her are still grim.
of industry. Anythlag which what restricted by the fact that Germans were informed.
A Sprawl
weakens the doctrinaires *Indian nationalism, even inn night natrol is a Jeep. They determination to keep step and no Englishman can take more
the case of a successful revólu had wooden shafts 18 inches long even to outstride.
Moscow is one of the world's strengthens the more respon- than
of an inch thick
Because her relatives abroad largest cities. Its population sible trade-union clements of country. But this is due to short- tablish an independent, orderly
tipped with
grund
not is about the same as Chiengo, the Labour Party. age of foreign currency and not state," it was said is those days nend
to sharp point quite prepared to meet quite but there is a considerable
***New Deal· with cutting t, a desire of the Government when Japan had reached
such an old rady who has had sprawl, with the the Calcutta remains
population It is not generally realized 1. danger arbitrarily to control the move-height of her military power. point,. It is the capital of Bengal to give up most of her plea scattered in the outskirts in in the United States that Lati,
The German ments of its citizens. In the Unit
then anyone said Province, message
which has a slight Mos- aures and hopes of improving what amounts to hundreds of more ed States, on the other hand, a the Japanese had pointed out lem majority, but the city itself the house during the war years tiny hamlets.
claim to be the godfather of In the middle city there is the a is about three parts Hindu anvi merely to sustain her sona at of such
New Deal. In the carly travel that "the control who wishes to
the front. It takes visitors a arca, with 400,000,000 one-fourth Moslem. abroad must first satisfy the State uge
inhabitants, would hardly be
Calcutta's policemen und street little while to get over the chitectural units in the world days of the first Roosevelt Ad- Department that he has very good
shock of her appearance, but reasons for doing so. The depart possible for Japan, along with car guards carry army rifles den
difficult pite the fact the curfew was lifted once they have spent a while her other numerous ment justifies this ericroachment Lasia.".
recently and
city is com with her they begin to appre- paratively quiet. upon the rights of the citizen by
Therefore, the Axis powers
The Sherman tanks of the B-cinte the beauty she once was arguing that, with the shortage concluded, "under these cir- tish
still petrol the streets. A and the dignited beauty she is of food in Europe, an excessive cumstances, the danger exists British tankman told me the meta becoming again. number of American visitors is that India will fall a prey to presence of the Shermans with their Fee-inch carinon have undesirable. Surely, however, this bolshevism"
Embassy in- been without firing a shot. The German
to quell disturb enough is à marter to be decided by the
Berlin In January, ances various European countries. And formed
He said his men were not hurt to the docu- 1942, according it is for them to issue whatever ment, that Japan was pressing during the riots but they worked
hard. Westerners number of entry visas they think military preparations in Man-molested during the private was desirable. Britain and France re cheria against Russia. cently made an agreement abolish- ing visas between the two coun-
Russia First tries. This is one of the few good
"Influential circles here," things that have happened since continued the diplomatic mes the war and it ought to be wide-
sage, "defend the viewpoint: ly imitated by other countries that Japan must turn on, Rus Every citizen of whatever coun- ma after the conquest of Port try should insist upon his right to Darwin (Australia) and must have a passport. Whether he can seize Vladivostok. the 'coastal subsequently obtain a visa per- province, and North Sakhalin, mitting him to visit the country in order Gnally to secure her of his choice should be a matter self in the north also." between him and the foreign
Judging from the statements government concerned, as it is to- made to the Diet that "victor- ious" January by the Prime day for an Englishman, It is curi- Minister, Hideki Tojo, and the ous that American public opinion, Foreign
contract, a declarer is not com- Minister, Shigenori has not been aroused on this point, Togo, the German Embassy
pelled to follow it through to Indeed, many Americans are un called Berlin the following out the bitter end. If he encoun- ters, an unexpected situation, wittingly supporting the State line of Japan's- goal, in"
in the defenders suit-lengths Department in its auteratic and the Pacific:
or in location of their high methods. Recently, Elliott
1. Japan, Manchukuo
delivery and to form the cords, he may find it necessary vel, son of the late President, Nanking-China
to switch his procedure and act organisa- was reported, while in Moscow, core of the "inner
along entirely different lines. tion." to have made some critical ob
and As a matter of fact, the ideal 2 Hong Kong servations about the conduct of Malay Peninsulate American foreign policy. His Japanese military bastions for and includes within itself the score a couple of extra tricks, with labour. 5th Feb. marks were widely, condemned, her "new order.”
preparedness to change direc- Some critics, even in Congress, 8. The creation of an "in- tion if that appears advisable went so far as to challenge the dependent" Philippines and wisdom of the State Department, Buima, "according to the Man- in issuing a passport to Roosevelt. chukue pattern
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The fact is that Moscow, although never severcly bombed as compared, for instance, with |
cruelly through the London, negertheless sulleren j փ է:
war and the ravages have not yet been erated.
between. Hindus and Moslems.--| United Press.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
Painless Childbirth
in
ministration, a number of the on President's advisera cime un- Moscow's dress der the influence of Laski's shines the Kremlin.
Nearby are modern eight, nine and ten doctrines, and many of the leas story office buildings erected by happy inmprovisations of those days were directly inspired by the progressive Soviets-Unit-
Loski. Among those most ul. Press,
sympathetic to Laski's sugges tione was Felix Frankfurter. A+ ane time, their close re- lationship was even dubbed the "Laski-Frankfurter Axis." To- day its power is broken, and Laski has even less influence on the American Government than he has on the British. The absurd situation which Laski has landed him self serves to illustrate the London, Feb. 2.
which amateur Russian scientists have in- dangers to formed their British colleagues politicians are a.ways exposed. of an apparent new advance in Outsiders who, intrude into the the never-ending quest for robust world of politics always pairless childbirth.
tend to be both intemperate in
1 two to the other, counter to
Although the Russians cau- their language and thin-skin- drawing any ed, in their reactions to the the danger that East's double tinned against
their criticisms of others. might indicate four of them in "final conclusions" from his hand if his double showed continuing experiments, the Ирод а
his preparedness for a bid of either major by his partner. If everything else was favourable too, South would find the club K with East, where it could he caught, and the outstanding cards would be divided evenly. With all those high hopes, he saw the chance that he might lose only one trick in hearts, maybe not any in diamonds if
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
CHANGE IN MID-STERAM
Having embarked
particular plan of play for his
·
British lawyers are perhaps the worst offenders in this re- speci, though, Mr. Byrnes has shown, it is possible in the
communication from the Cen- tral Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology added:
"We are certainly entitled to United States for a lawyer to say that we may have hit on mature into a statesman. And the clue to an effective method Woodrow Wilson performed the of accelerating the process of even harder transmogrification the from professor to statesman. But poor Laski, cannot even suffering in childbirth.”
The Soviet technique is to make the grade as a politician. administer vitamin E during
reduclag
form plan considers such possibilities the Klay with West, so might actual child birth, beginningEEPING #IN
And some people even urged that! 4. The conquering by force Lit should be withdrawn. This is of Chungking-China, Australia
defend to the death your right to 6 Seizing parts of
say it." Nearly everyone pays lip: Asia-United Press. service to this noble dictum;. but
laine out of ten, if gliey can find
CJ975
Soviel
some device by which they can the government may easily be deny the free expression of unnecessarily embarrassed. It opinions with which they disagree,would be much better if we could
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So he took the spade lead, "Three methods of introduc with the A and led the heart in the vitamin were tried-
3 to the Q. then, finessed the intravenous injections, intra-THE BANK
dienond to the K He ruffed muscular infections and doses
London, Feb. 3, through the British investors tended to the returned spade, but the administered hart & to the A showed West mouth, the report declared keep their money in the bnak last The Intravenous injections week while waiting government's Gut, u that the trumps were
Now had the quickest effect but it next move to cure the admittedly destined not to "break."
of short duration so serious less of British en his plan became one of scoring proved
Markets brightened slightly, c
shares Index
cron-
the stock ex
SK Q 109 N HKJ72 a mast illiteral point of view, and the Netherlands East In SJ873
dict. Voltaire wrote: "I do not agree
trumpe separately as far as the docfers abandoned this eme Placing all Asia under D 10 643 W.-E DK92
puksierite finested the club method. At present the usun! but the only real activity was a SCK6 THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC. a word you say, but I will Japanese econojnic control.
Q dropped the K with the A, procedure 18 to begin with an
-fed ut 3 with the heart 10; intramuscular injection, follow furry in Argentine calls, Caution forcing East to over-ruff with cd, if the pains recur, either was the keynote as buyers picked
selectively over tae 3. ruffed the returned spade by another smaller injection or etange jist pushing the "Finan
cial
"Industrial ordinary Q2 with the heart 8, scored the by dones through the mouth at
Timer
0.3 to 1347 in two good diamonds and led the un interval of half an hour. Lurd. East with his heart K-Relief from pain was felt duli trading.
one more within 10 to 15 minutes of do?" was still
"What is Government going to side 7 could get only
big question de trick, ds South with the club first Injection In nearly half West 10 and cart 9 was sure of the the test cases, 40 per cent, the he wake of the gloomy white. cne trick needed for the con-¡ Print were relieved during paper statement on the orening "nroblem of production," "foreign whole process of birth in 12 frade balances and potential in- Pass tract. N
per cent of the cases there pation-Asiciated Press, After Weet led the spade 3. What principle should guide was a prolonged alleviation South got going rapidly or you in the choice of your open-pain. plan which, to say the least, ing lead if your opponents have "In 8.2 per cent of the casts after-effects-often an undesir was based on plenty of confid- bid the rubber game in the the effect was of short durable concomitant of the use of ence in his omens. If they most confident fashion in one tion Only in 5-6 per cent was ancesthetics or narcotica-but were propitious, he would find suit without ever giving you no relief experienced." ~*~ that introduction of the vits- The peientists reported that min eétually speeded up de- the outstanding hearth divided any information about the rest with three to one defender and of their holdings?"
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Dhi 25 3H movements of the citizen: The But if there must be passports, moment a government has the they should be used in promote power to grant or withhold rather than to restrict movement. passport, it at once appears in the And for a free country, the only public eye to have assumed respon colerable solution is that any citi sibility for the opinions which its zen, irrespective of his opinions, Citizens may express abroad. The race or religion, should be grant result is that not only is the free ed a passport merely by asking dom of the citizen curtailed, but for stare megani
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