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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1947,
INDIA AND THE INDONESIAN PROBLEM
By Wickham Steed
London, Aug, 5. I present state of relations bo-donesian supplies of food to The complexity of interns-tween the Soviet Union and the India for some time to come. A tional relationships can rarely Western Powers may be ex-year ago Dr. Bjabrir concluded have been more strikingly illus ploited to no good purpose.". an agreement with the Govern-
der.
whole Muslim world."
former
But in Britain observers ap- prehend that
1
Negro Baptist Schism?
Copenhagen, Aug. 6.
Dick Turnar
ALTHMETIL
"Strikes everywhere, production way behind schedule, food shortages and you're all steamed up over how much is two times twol"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities”
EARLIER THAN sure that the doubling West * would not have led away from
the K. WHEN a squeeze--piny-is{ "He came to his hand with tho negotiated, ita pressure usuallyį diamond K, finessed the club. Q, is exerted by the lead of the dropped the K with the A and last winning gard in the sull ran his clubs. The next to the with which the squeezing is last of these squeezed Enst, done. On the rarest occasions, who held four spades to protect however, it can operate a trick against a possible, four, in the earlier than that. This may South, two diamonds to keep the occur when the squeeze'a viçüm dummy. from establishing has the only carda which can little one, and the heart K. afford protection against all Whatever he tossed away would. three of the side sults, Most set up the thirteenth trick for
After the dummy's final heart
trated than by the conillet in Genera-regret is felt that ment of India for the supply of Indonesia between Dutch forces the Netherlands Government 700,000 tons of Indencatan rice and those of the Indonesian Re- should have rejected the Bri- in exchange for Indian goods, public. Even the Imaginative tish offer of mediation, and and Indian Army transport was could hardly have foreseen that that it should, even at the risk to be provided for the purpose it would associato India and of appearing the aggressor, of moving the rice. How much Australia in appeals to the have answered the possibly pro- has actually been delivered and Security Council of the United vocative Indonesian tactics by what further supplies might be Nations or that it would bring opening a military offensive.available if the present fighting about a manifestation of un-Yet the statement made by Dr. should cease cannot be exactly animity between the provisional Sjahrir,
Indonesian estimated; but it is evident that governments of the Indian Un- Premier, at New Delhi that material as well as political and ion and
Pakistan. Political settlement might have been religious considerations com- The letter in our correspon truth sometimes outruns imagi- reached in four days if the bine to enhance the intorcat of dence columns from Mr. Charles
nation.
Dutch had been less impatient, India in the cessation of the In- Loseby presents an incontrover
Political truth may be many is not thought to diminish Indonesian conflict. tible case, and makes points that alded. It is not always ident! donesion
responsibility for My personal view is that both can bear frequent repetition, cal with the cold facts. Before frustrating the conciliatory ef- the Netherlands Government Whether, however, they should the facts
can be
ascertained forts of Dr. Sjahrir himself and the Indonesians would be be used in the manner recom- and made known partial reporta and of his successor in the pre- wise to accent mediation with mended is a matter about which of them may arouae, passions miership of the Republic.
out waiting for the eventual there are likely to be profound which in their turn become. Nor has the curious circum proceedings before the Security differences uf opinion. The dynamic facts of a different 'or-stance been forgotten that In-Council, if only for the reason 'donesian - claims, were first that the Security Council may economic crisis that
Feelings in India are now so brought before the United Na-dot be able to act prompt'y. seems ill reward for Britain's tre- strong that Pandit Nehru, head tions in February. 1946, by the The Russian veto of the re- mendous, exhausting war effort, of the Government of the In-representative of the Russian solution designed to prevent ag for the year that she stood alone dian Union, hay forbidden Ukraine. The interest of the gression in the Balkans has against the greatest menace the Dutch air services to fly over Ukraine in Indonesia was not created a position in which | world has known, but most people Indian territory, while port visible to the naked eye. In sa members of the Council may bo wild trust that Britain's pride in workers Karachi, the fature far as the more extreme Indone asked by the U.S.A. to decide herself is still high enough to capital of Pakistan, have refus- sion claims may be influenced whether or not they will up- scarn the idea of an appeal for ed to bundle Dutch shipping by Communist propaganda Bri- ho'd. by action outside the succnur, and that confidence in Nehru's carlier declaration that tish opinion is cautious about framework of the United No- the action of the Dutch in Indo- taking them at their face value. tions, the purposes of its Char- our ultimate destiny remains un-
resia is an "astounding thing shaken whether or not a helping which the new spirit of Asia
Food From Indonesia ter which cannot be upheld by hand is forthcoming. However will not tolerate" is matched by dispute (an aspect accentuated Bent organised.
Apart from this aspect of the the United Nations as at pre- deen the crisis, a realistic ap- the statement of the speaker of by the Russian veto in the Unit- Even in the interest of India proach leads to the inescapable, the North-West Frontier Pro-ed Nations Security Council of It would be well, I think, if the conclusion that it is upon her own vince's legislative assembly that the resolution designed to check Indonealan conflict could be determined
*REQUIRED effort that Britain Pakistan and India muat act aggression in the Balkans) Brisettled by counsels of modern- must rely for survival. Success or Jointly against the Netherlands fish anxiety is inspired by soll- tion independently of the crisis failure will depend more upon the Government for its ghastly in- citation for the welfare of. In that appears to threaten the nation's spirit, its response to Mr. Jury to the sentiments of the din. While deprecating sug- United Nations Organisation it Attlee's programme for Opera-
Kestions that India abould either self. tion Comeback, than upon any
General Regret Felt give arma
or direct military Even before the Indian-and aid to the Indonesians, Pandit outside assistance. That is not to the Australian--appeals to the Nehru has gratefully recalled urge disdain of such aid as may United Nations' Security. Coun- the fact that last year the In- be offered. But we can see nu cll were formally lodged, the donesians offered aid to India merit in piling up additional obli- Indian delegate to its Economic when many Indians were star- gations. What would be wel- and Social Council expressed ving. comed, and is apparently cogag-himself so vigorously that an ing the attention of the United impartial observer in New York States, would be a relaxation of feared leat the merits of the the terms of the American Loan, Indonesion dispute be clouded permitting Britain to seek her by racial passions which “in the imports in sterling areas without infringing the non-discrimination clause. Even the bitterest critic of Mr. Attlee's Government, Mr. Churchill, has admitted that the serious increase in U.S. prices) and other factors have promoted i conditions which could not be foreseen when the American Loan agreement was concluded a year ago, and that a clause which ap peared to carry no danger then, is an excessively onerous burden how. It would be of tremendous
'Baghdad, Aug. 5. value in the struggle were the
Iraq will not leave the sterling vulnerable.) When and if such ♫ day There
numerous thing area and her aterling balances North restriction to be relaxed only as arrives, then tuberculosis-whien about B-G-G that worry many have been settled on the best 1 D. tar as it affects trade between now kills about 53,000 Americans American, doctors specializing in possible terms, considering D Britain and Empire countries. offender against health.
annually, will be only a petty tuberculosis,
3 NT Pans D, 8 7 The No. 1 worry is the fear Britain's economic plight, 7 NT Something of this kind would
Pass Dbl This country is now, for the that the disease itself may be Foreign Minister Dr. Fadhil gain our warmest thanks and first time, trying out a vaccine transmitted by vaccination to a Jamaili sald today...
That was funny bidding In] extrem. But for us to go in the a vaccine which has been used person with normal lungs. B-C-GDr. Jamalli told a press con- the South. It was by Harry role of down-and-out, cap-in. for years in other parts of the in live bacteria and in most cases ference that the agreement pro- Goldwater, one
world,
of the fow including hand; we trust, the time has not France,
Denmark,$1 causes Scandinavia,
a mud, primary infec- vides for the release of amounts players who combines compoti- South tous type of TB, This is all right, sufficient to meet Iraq's essen- tive brilliancy of a most specta- yet come.
America and Canada.
according to the foreign scientists, tial requirements over the next cular and speculative kind with vulnerable.) Z
(Dealer East. Neither side is known as B-C-, because it sets up an immunity in five years. The vaccine is 80 named because two French the body.
machinalike soundness in his Belentists. Calmette and Guerit, The No. 2 Worry is how long
Ho said it had also been found performance when he acts as How should the bidding, go on In grappling with the problem losis bacillus used in the tests.
developed the strain of tubercus the immunity--If any lasts, that it would not be in Iraq's conductor of a tournament, Also this deal in rubber" bridge?
That que
question is not answered. Interest to leave the of the Ruhr's future the Western Forelan .medical scientists The experimenta now getting area"-United. Preas. Powers are at grips with the praise_B-C-G` to the sky. Amuri-started may give the answer. crucial issue of European rehabi- can experte are not convinced. Denmark began using B-C-G on litation. On a satisfactory agreely in those areas where tubercule of the
Some went no part of it-especial- a high stale during the latter part ment between Britain, France and is already
war because it feared has been brought an epidemie of tuberculosis. The the United States over German under control,
Dands thought so much of B-C-G industry depends whether or not One of these areas is Minnesota, that the country's whole under- there can be a real Marshall plan reportable dite, tuberculosis is a ground movement was vaccinated.
disease. This forces the Even emerging from the existing pro- victim to tako treatment.
In Gorman con- posals of the Secretary of State, there
Also, contration camps were vaccinated are max X-Rays of chil-by doctors who had/smuggled the It would do no service to the dren going on. In some commu- vaccine past the German guards. cause of Western European unity nities, the incidence of 18 has The vaccination has. boon-used to gloss over the very marked dif
dropped tvirtually xoro,
extensively in South America, Jit ferences of approach. After pro discussed at great length recently in Brazil,
Nevertheless, B-G-G has been cluding 100,000 new born babies In all of South tracted negotiations the British at meetings of three of the America, it-is estimated that hun- and Americans are understood. to nation's top medical societies, the dreds of thousands
have boo7 have reached an agreement on the the American College of Cheat studies, however, do not report as American Medical Association, vaccinated with B-O-G The permitted level of German steel Physicians, and the American to the production but publication of this! Trudeau Society, Medical Branche ofectiveness of the - vaccine, is meeding medical ence to French objections.
England.
now interested in trying out B-C-G, but that want to
Dr. Marshall Shepherd, spokes- Dutch military man for 4,000,000 United States veteran players have never soon the declarer. operations together with Indo-negro Baptists, charged today this phenomenon occur, and are nesian "scorched earth" tactics that white delegates to the world not conscious of there being was discarded-on that next-to- may prevent the delivery of In- Baptist Congress told Danish such a possible play.
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Preliminary arperiments have beer higher level would be to encour-mic problem. If production is held and Alaska among certain Indian made in the United States age the Germans by giving them back by political considerations, population groups where the assurances that wholesale destruc either by French fears or British tuberculoals rate is
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