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ASIA'S MOST ROMANTIC POLITICAL FIGURE
What living political leader in Asia has had the most romantic career? There are
WINDRUSH”
(Special Correspondent).
$, reading and reflection. From This time dates; the strong in- dividual independence of judg- ment and action, which has since then marked his career. • His day's headline.
several who could be "can-
"Prisen- swarmed,” said yeste didate for this distinction became a member of the Execu- views changed, or rather evolved. The bees in the keepers' bon- General Chu Teb could put ine Committee of the Comintern. He broke away from the Com-nets probably got out of hantl.
Next he went with Borodin to munist cult at force.
Editor in Chief - Reporters Generat Office S2512 very good claim. But sure
ly not even he has had such China. What part he played After his release from prison, According to one contemporary, (Four lines)
a strange history as the Indian there is not quite clear. Apathe at first- joined the Congress "Professor Soddy, who holds the Bubscription Rates". M. N. Roy.
parently, he was led on hy Wan party, then seceded from it, and Nobel prize for his work in un- disclose more" of formed a new organisation called clear physics, said in an inter- Though M Boy played an im-Ching-wet to portant part in the Chinese Re- the plans of the Bolsheviks than the Radical Democratic Party-view last week that world wea- a synthesis other conditions may be disturbed volution during the Haukowit was prudent to do. A little This stood for
socialism. with the ar atomic gases." period 20 years ago, he is sur later he returned to India, and extreme
В Another example of the cloud- prisingly little known outside In- for a long period lived under-liberal, humanistic tradition d. He was born a
Bezgal round. Eventually he was be Western Europe in its purested crystal ball.
was as socialist as Brahmin. In 1914 he took part trayed to the British mod was im-form. He
ever, but he had discovered the in an unsuccessful rising against prisoned for six years.
worth of individualism. He tried the British, and fed from India
to combine the two.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
to Mexico. There he fought in
the
of
Studies of History. civil war on the side Pancho Vila.
During these years in jail, Roy After the revolution in Russia, greatly extended his studies of he went to Moscow, and lived history. The man of action had there for nearly 10 years. He perforce acquired the leisure for
How Marshall Aid Works
By R. W. THOMPSON
Disappointing:
A
SoChina's tiger painter is divorcing his "Your wives. His action was probably duć 40 feline of quadruplication. Cruelty to talpans...
The party had a disappointing Listory in India. It ran the most
"Wher telephone directors, be- interesting propaganda' magazines in the country. But it followed me obsolete, they are usually gathered and sold to waste-paper unpopulares. It supported! the British Government during companies for conversion into the war and during this period, pulp, and the manufacture of new
They
Zora - into paper. to meet the deficit in its accounts, two lengthwise, then chopped in It unwisely accepted a small sub-
to small bits in a powerful ma- sidy for its publications froin: the
Government of India. This kit chine." ed it in the eyes of Indian patriots.
"The four young men carried The party won some influence
old-fashioned nosemmy's of red by organising trade unions, but it carnations outlined by frills and never coupled for anything-in, the
struggle for power in India. Two ware coronets of the same towers
in their hair.”
How too, too divine!.. CBS 380. Mr. Roy dissolved it and converted it into a "move-]- meat." He despairs of capturing
P
*
the
Now that the countries of In addition ECA makes, dollars Europe. are fully embarked available for projects agreed to by the member countries working
A correspondent says he would Mr. & Mrs. Mistra Reyes thank upon the second year of Mar- together under the auspices of power as a politician. Instead he be glad to take to diaper, serving
the HK Musicians Union, chall Aid it is fairly simple the Organisation for Europeans trying; by propaganda, to per- rice of his own choosing. Filipino Community, Re- to see just what the system Economic Co-operation in Paris meate the thought of the next local experts who say everything latives and Frients for their of finance inspired by the
The Aid is divided into three generation. Though at the mo kind syn Athy and atten-
consumption. dance at the funeral of their United States Secretary of parts: free gift, loan and con-ment his influence is small, it on the market is fit for huraza
ditional grant or gift. It is this would be rush to say that his beloved son, Master Reyes State, George Marshall, is conditional grant or gift that is persistence will not in the end Miss Robinson was not as young Junior, and also for the and is not. It is also more working as the basis of a new eam a large dividend.
"Mr. Rey has recently published floral tributes and the band simple to understand what system of trade between the that played at the funeral.
has been achieved by this countries of Europe, for under in India a bulky book called "The
Revolution." each member Russian the "conditionsTM
Most of method of aid, and what may county must give credits and this book was written some years
loans to other member countries ago. It is astonishing what pro
proportion to its abilities and phetic vision Mr. Roy had. Much o what he foretold has come to the common need
But the outstanding feature of pass. all is the fact that America has
be achieved in the future.
First, it is fair to say that it is mutual aid in the best sense of the words, for there is no country. including the United States, with
Kéy Ideas
Brst in
as she used to be, but she wasn't
a suitor in teller couldn't see- without hope. Even the fortune the offing, but he didn't want to disappoint a client
"Hal" he said, his eyes on the crystal. "I see a tall man. He is going to propose to you"
"Dark?" fluttered the excited client
"Yes," said the fortune teller. "Dark. I will have to be
т
only to the Far East but to the world at large.
One cannot help feeling that the Indian premier would have had his future intenlly devised to serve the best Whatever may be the fall ment Communist Russia was foot obsolete. There is no clutet
the
2
Few
frankness
EAST AND WEST Pandit Nehru, having com- pleted his tour of America, has been having further con-out obvious benefit. Marshalt not used Marshall Aid simply as
Mr. Roy's key ideas can uber- sultations with statesmen in Aid is in fact, the successor of a means to unibad surplus pro- London. On both sides of the as one of the most unsandid that European trade and world that the basic fact of our period VIP's present, probably.
Lend-Lease, which was describ- duce. Because she has recognised summed up shortly. He argues Atlantic there was little in acts in cistory.
world trade must be broadened is that the socialist, or Commun- "At 7.30 the orchestra will dication of the trend of his
Marshall Aid might be equally and stimulated, a high proportion ist revolution occured high-level talks, but there well described as one of the most of US. Dollars under Marshall Russia, the most backward coun- give a stared concert cannot be any doubt that they enlightened acts of self-interest Aid are available for purchase of hy in Europe, and not, as it had "English teachers preferably
on gramme were of great importance not in history. Marshall Aid is a gift goods and raw materials outside been "expected by Marx, in the British required
and it is a loan: 75 per cent the United States. In any cases countries which were economical composition." gift and 25 per cent loan. It is this offshore purchase, as it isly the most advanced.
Looks pretty urgent, too. A country cannot change its called, amounts to nearly 40 per essentially a vital transfusion. of
"Today I drove a new Ameri- raw materials, goods and credits cent of the total Marshall Aid nature overnight, even by revolu
to memberi tion. Russia throughout
available war dollars
had a very long can car that does not have any whole
tradition of tyrannical govern gears. This car makes the lef stricken body of Europe, care- countries. tions more clearly defined bad interests of each.
result
on therefore tyrannical
Because pedal" country in
occured only In he been able to travel through relation to each other country, economic, political, social and the revolution
By the time they've abolished Russia and the iron curtain supplied from the best sources mutual aid and defence matters, Russia, it fell upon Russia to lead the brakes, we're going to have
available.
previously impossible, has come the cause of revolution in Eu- countries with as much free. dom as he had in the West and the
And because of the intelligence to talks between the Marshall rope, but because the system or a hard time getting in and out,
far-sightedness with countries,
government in Russia was back-
Myrtle and a friend were dis This is not to cast any slur on which Marshall Aid has been, and
ward and tyrannical, Russia was cussing a mutual scquaintance. the knowledge or understand is being, applied it has already
incompetent to flay this part || *I believe she is a great gossip, He had served to knit the 19 participat ing of this great man.
Ing countries into a closer union ample theoretical information than might have been thought about the United States, but possible even two years ago. he wanted to go and see for At the end of World War II the himself. From differentsid Europe lay in ruins, Agricul point of view, he would inture, industry and homes alike were devastated, and it was clear evitably find vast interest in that no single nation could rise the Utopia of the proletariat again simply by its own unaided while to examine the impresCanada, had become vast work- Failing that, it is worth entert, and in isolation. But mean
while the United States and sion he made on America shops and producers, Behind the invitation made increased their output in a way and had to him by President Truman that would have been unthinkable lay the State Department's and unattainable before the war need to formulate a new and in more normal times. policy for Asia, in view of the Nationalist collapse in China
Expanding World Long-range planners had re Prosperity commended that the U.S. should stop at nothing to strengthen India, economi- cally and politically, in order
ส
Coffee And Buns At The Old Vic
By CECIL WILSON
properly.
remarked the visitor. Mr. Roy
Pussian says. "The
"Yes," said Myrlie. She ha proletariat, when it captured a keen sense of rumour."
power, was not qualified to be
•
the leader of the proleterian More respectable, though, world revolution. Lenin himself
"The young couple went to knew it. He always said that as school together in Shanghai, and. soon as the revolution was sue their marriage will stop a ro cessful in a West European coun-mance begun between the
7ia would recede to the there."
background."
Very soon after the end of the Emma Cons. Does the name recent war, Mr. Roy forecast sur- mean anything to you? Per-prisingly accurately what would continues to gain in Great Bri He pro- tain and West Europe, th haps not, but to the theatre it happen in Europe means the international fame phesied that Russia, drunk with leadership in social change in the of the Old Vic; of Olivier, Victory, would try to spread its West will gradually pass out of
power and the revolution over Russian hands. Richardson Gielgud, and the all Europe. But it would refuse Mr. Roy is less optimisti other stars who first shone at to come to terms with the liberal about Asia. He thinks that it i that shabby old theatre in the and democratic tradition in the Asia which may pay the cost unfashionable Waterloo Road West. So, after the initial period, Russia is checked in Europe Hi the resistance against it in the books ends with the followin While tryin West would stiffen, and Russia sober sentences:
to stabilise the status que in. Eu would fail
rope, which seems to hold, ou promises for a swifter march d About the future in Europe Mr.] the revolution; the tidal wave, o Roy is reassuringly, optimistic revolution may sweep over a
Есила Cons
have cannot
turned
Europe's Future
tween Bussia and the West. He the world will be plunged int change of war being-avoided be- be a revolution; a large part <
thinks that, if social democracy) ruinous cívil war and chaus
Can a can cool quickly ?
The question facing America was how to use and to dispose of this emendous rowth of eru dreamed what a tradition she duction to those in need, and was creating when she to form a new anti-Commu without the means of paying for Waterloo's Coburg Theatre into nist front. It was
made it in goods or gold or money the Royal Victoria Coffee Music own that the country could For it was clear that even Hall ("coffee" to show how He thinks that there is a good South East Asia. But it will no have almost any loan she relation of wealth, could not sur-the drunkards and sinners from America with her vast accumu-spectable it was) in 1880 to lure quired.
vive in an economic vacidum. She the gia palaces and the "pro Mr. Nehru quickly dispelled aceded to build up the nations menades
Light, wholesome entertain- the ideas that his people who are her partners in the van- might play a militant part inure of expanding world pro-ment, with coffee and. bens that American plans for Asia In the end, after a period of dish horror of the average music
perity
was her policy. She had....a pru- "We rejoice that we do not loans and gifts which might be ball show. She engaged only the have the atom bomb," he said, called First Aid, there came the cleanest, turus, Nightly (so legend "and all we want is that we inspiration of Marshall Ald. The says), she sat in the wings ready should be left alone to solve available were and are carefully the head of any offending come- goods and credits to be made. to drop the old roller curtain on our own problem." He did planned by the Economic Co dian however, win a remarkable operation Administration in con So began what the public was Now that. Barclay's comes in cans, it takes less time for personal success. He gave no sultation with teach of the Mar-eventually to christen the Old impression of a cultivated, shall Ald countries separately,
Vic. Today Harcourt Williams, cooling. The instant you plunge the can in ice, the scholarly leader patronisingly
who produced Shakespeare, there exploring a new, uncivilised as time goes on. It is difficult for four years, talls, its story beer inside. begins to chill. A minute or so later, and country, but at the same time for the ordinary European hout cush, in "old you've a drink as cool as a mountain stream. What a
simply and critically with affec left Americans wondering if to assess, the mind of such aye Sam their materialistic sense of man, steeped in the learning It is the story not so much of
blessing when you've values had any real mean- and mysticism of his own Emma Cons but of the piece che ing.
ancient culture. He doubtless put in at 24 es a. El-a-week man-
an impatient thurst. After his early oficial talks, admired the technical emager- music and dancing he was welcomed as a man ciency and energy of Amer teacher from South Africa named rather than as a representa ica, but it is another matter she came to Britain in 1895 to
Lilian Baylis, IN Re tive of a great nation. His whether he considered that convalesce. She stayed to run the humility, his modesty, his the 1949 version of Western Out Vie right up to her death in quiet sense of humour, and capitalism would be useful 1937. By all accounts, she was accessibility endeared him to even as a partial model for not an immediately lovable a people who hate starched Asia. He has his own ideas woman. She had a blunt an formality perhaps more than of what the newly-indepen which many took for 'Cockney, proach, a South African accent any other characteristic. dent countries of this region weak spectacled eyes, a expoked They were mystified by should have the develop mouth, and a thickset build..“ Nehru's' adherence to many ment of their own indigenous According to various reports of the
the East, in cultures and economies, with she was an ignorant vain, and the land stern life at its financial aid but little inter-ish brife, a devil, a tyrant,
Meless, terence from the outside.
and a great, cœurageous woman with a divine inspiration Pandit Nekrir's trip has, Buy there was something about however, at least laid the ser potent simplicity, and the bass for a closer liaison with driving force of her personality the peoples opposed to total that made puxiteers like Ben Matheson Lang Robert tarianism, 6In the present
and Tyrone Guthrie and feelings the In-state of world affairs this. Is
like Olivier Gleizad, the dian premier now has about a slight but very definite ndikces, and Laughton' proud the West will on
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