THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, › 1954.
THE WEST CANNOT IGNORE
THE
Akuna
London.
T WHA in 1937 that
Pandit Nehru, On a visit to England, came
PROBLEMS
her freedom
OF
By Sir Beverley Baxter
while to the House of Com-ranteeing as much as possible to address a private the security of Pakistan and meeting of Conservative the minorities. MP'. It was not in any
It was
a thankless task, and Moimbatten Won spirit of friendliness that
unded by many volces in Britain for 1- dertaking it. After much travail the plan took shape. India was
tre Republic
within the Conumonwealth, and Pakistan was to be a self-governing Da minion also within the Common- wealth,
had invited him but merely to have a look al
andhi's partner.
There was nothing mystic about Nehru on the surface. He had Bue, handsome
were
features. His eyes sombre to the point of sad- ness, and never once did he
Harrow (that famous rival where Winston
Churchill had
to Eton)
years before.
India abould be ruled entire
In
Loosened Rock
ERE was trouble, there was
But the Americans were happy. They had incessantly urged upon
British the Chr
necasity 15
a guest are more rigid than those of a host.
achieved
Even
of science
a con-
ASIA
Poverty brings profit to no ene. On the contrary it breeds despoir, revolution and WIT the three costliest things ever Japan and had embraced the of blunted opportunity, of he The marellagarens philosophy and the cruelly of norupce and, in some inrekturles has probably
created by man. Therefore the Bret
concern of the Western Communism. "Free Chlua" her of despair. But also in Asia siderable period of uneasy pen©©
work, as it looks out upon the leaders called their country, pa there la « fercy pride such as for the world.
backward if it is
territorios of
Aria they did nway with such poorly was shown by Japan until she only a trice, we should do ant Afrien, should be: "We noinished flowers of freedom was compelled to bow her head everything possible to make the must destroy poverty in order as had already flourished there. humbly to the conquering most of a period where the guns to save ourselves."
That very big little American Americans.
are silent or are confined, as In President, Truman, saw the red
Indo-China, to a limited areu. light of danger. Sume of readers may
remember when I saw Mr Truman at the Wute House not very long after
that
the Hitler war was ended, Ite
jhled letize globe on 11 swivel which General Elsen
had given him and rald; trouble is coming from.
There in Arials where our
Grip Of Fear?
A
the
There is a wise old boy in the House of Commons named Sir Walior Fletcher. Ha
spent
There are two Asins--the Asia of wealth and the Asia of many 3 Cars in Molayo, and culture and the Aala of great fitting late we poverty.
Asia
of sometimes when Parliament ts talk Et great Asia uf en- length.
the
ignorance, the
lightened expression and Asia of dumb despair. We can no more Ignore it than we can ignore the sun, the moon and the store.
WHEN defeated the Japanese W Lowed very low, but they remember with pride when they were the full ally of Great Brl- tain and declared war against the Kaiser's Germany only few hours after
London had done 30. They also remember
that I am At the moment how in the Hitler was
they writing these words the dreadful drove the British Army out of Boitie of France against the Burma and even threatened Communist forces
Indo-China India with a yellow tide of con- seems be approaching its last quest.
hours. Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your cars. But will not Communist China member when
Do you re- you called for hobl Imperial Japan in a the crucifixion of Chamberlain of fear? That may be. China because is not a coquering nation but support of Canada or France or England, without the An elephant that can it by the U.S.A., should have declared merely rolling on ta vletim.
war when Hitler said that he Surangely enough-and hummn would invade Czechoslovakin? destiny
works In wondrous Have you anti-Chamberlainites ways Japan is an outpost
for lost your
Is
your
tongues? the forces of the West, Not conscience contained within the even the dropping of at boundaries of a geography atlas? terrible bomb at Hiroshima has
self-
that
"Underpaid workers," he said, "are no good to the Capitalist system. The workers are Our customers whether they аго black, yellow or white. Unless we pay them enough to buy our manufactured goods we are sunk. What is the basic troubla Jamaica? We have never taught In Kenya or Uganda, or even the blacks the Joy
of a re- frigerator or a motor car. Give them something to work for and they will work. High wages urg the cheapest in
Que long
Much Wisdom
THINK there is much wisdom
in what he says. Comniunism
smile. He spoke English not only well but
with To
trogody, there was terrible Els instant decision 10 fht something akin to perfec. bloodshed, In defence Nehru in Korea was not D hosty tion. He had, of course,
would probably have quoted decision. He had been ponder bao educated as
Oscar Wilde's words: "At the ing the F- boy al
Eastern situation birth of a child or a star there for weeks and months.
pain.
Asla-what is it? Asiaties what are they? gone many
Fucts RANG normally dult Calmly he told us that freeing Ind if true Anglo-ing, but sometimes they can American bond of comradeship be very dramatic. Roughly second person was to come into being.
speaking, every On y ly by the Indians and not lecture tours across America in
in The world today is a
Janey He by the British,
Cameron, 1940 and 1!}]
1947 the one question Asiatic.
Jourriniist that was fred at me everywhere Antich
who has But refer to the times he
WIEN "Why don't you get out of minde a dorp study of the sub had been imprisoned as India?" I might have answered: Jyvt, reminds us that the Asia- revolutionary nor the per "Why don't you give full free- tle population is approximately Anal tragedy that had av
dom to the Negroes in the 1,500 million and that It is companied it.
But that would have increasing The British South?"
by 10,000 a day!
ltered Japan's basic sense of I never thought that Cham- can only survive and grow in louch of
Britain. the unity with
and now berlain should have gone een wendentious. The duties of With
to countries where the standard pleturesque he adds:
with America. If we adml! war over Czechoslovakia-fer of lying is pifully low. Where thousand new
ย policy of mouths to feed that it is
the good reason
nelther does Communism seek ex- When a rock is loosened on
majd upakitkonn wo be fullied advantage let us also repeat France, America nor Canada pansion of Its kingdom? In a mountainside, it may monn or every hour on the clock."
That Japan was a loyal ally to were willing to take a stand. America, in Canuda, in New little or
Britain until the U.S.A. per Therefore, think we were per- Zeeland, in Britain? No-t avalanchic. Burma followed
suaded us to cast her off.
hape right in not sending troops locks to Africa and the India
The British 14th Army
Therefore, we must realise to Indo-China.
ward territories of Asia. bad fought with tremendous
that Asla docs not lack ex- heroism to suve i from Du
perienced lenders. We have the VES-facts can be not only ex-sad-freed Alilere Jups, but Mr
gave
Nehru
trying wway in a single speech. | մա ciling but ominous. The in- 10
the wris of bring leaster. fluence of Asia stretches out the Socialist criticise
government to India atid
of courage, patience, Events of such magnitude can- the frontier of Europe, to the making
volee heard for WE must look beyond the
and endurance merely to lop not be judged at the
Arctic and points
at Australia king his
beyond the boundaries of that present battle into the years
the fruit from off the trees. We Only the unforgiving years can
can and New Zealand Here Is a sub-continent. In Moscow there ahead. First wa must sludy
were not given teil in retrospect whether such glone with many ryes and long. is a collection
Asia and realise that she has of oble men
merely to dream but
to chan of the greatest immense events have been wise- lewi fingers,
uthless in action and limitless produced some
the ly or badly handled,
sens and build temples and The student of history may in ambition. Is she angry
philosophers with
and poets in all factories and homes where once intervene at this point and usk Europe?
Thin she becomes history.
There are civilisations wild animals roamed. We were why we should assume that the slant-eyed und Asian. Is she in Asia which make those of not mere texture of the skin should annoyed with Asia? Then she Europe seem something created not given the power to make and administer the law merely blad various tribes and nations becomes a blue-eyed Europeon. Yesterday, into a menacing unity.
n about the white races?
Fol and Teulon have fought through the ages, and oven America only achieved nallonhood point
had pecupied India and hek it down by force. The British had exploited India without developing it. The British had proclaimed the divine right of governing without the consent of the governed. That ધસ his case.
The Aristocrat
We
HE spoke coldly and
listened coldly. When he had Anished he said that he would subject himself to questions, Up rose one of par chaps and, with a voice that
was quiet but tinged with anger, said: "We have listened with interest to Mr Nehru's case. May I ask him if he can think of one thing the British have ever done which might conceiv ably have been of benefit to his country?"
With the patience of father answering a child Mr Nehru answered: lucked her. to glorify
It
"Britain has never voices
t
Inay
mpan
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moment
World Force
ERTAINLY Britain was fou
weakened by war to hold her Empire by the sword. It may well be that the dismissal of Churchill by the British elee- Lorate In 1945 was a signal that Imperial Britain had lost faith in
British Imperialism. Alan we had plenty of troubles brew- ing in Africa.
Yet or
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What
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Looking Ahead
We must Fruitful Soil
the PUSSIA has powerful under- of the sword from Im- R
ground allies in Asia: such as despair. poverty Ydecase, Imarance and They make fruitful sell for the ACTITY of Com- el munism. The Russian prides
himself on
being
a European, but at heart he is That is a truth that the world on Asiatic.
should never forget.
10 have
back-
Man was not created by God an easy and slothful life. We were not given qualities
Imagination
chart
to decide a quarrel over the ownership of a mulo.
also realie-and this is my final point that the
No longer can we live our poverty and misery cannot be lives in isolation. We are part confined to an area but must of the human comedy and the
thetr spread
deadly
germa human tragedy, across even tho
There is no most
closely longer such a thing as distance. guarded frontiers.
Asia is on our doorsteps just as Europe and Africa are.
Poverty....without munism would die. Poverty.... without it there would be there would be no atheism
wars.
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ceased exist save for customs pure posts."
Poverty....without It us...and the ultimate historian SOUTH - CHI
cause man is a creature needs God.
But there is a difference. The white nations of the world had the composite continent Europe, rich in the arts of goy one did not need to be
ernment and culture, as well as that n necromancer to see
being undisputed leaders of the nud enornious world force human community. Their wars was taking form. Asia was it were for the glittering of
Prizes the throws of becoming a poli-
Even the French re- tical as well
geogru- volution, founded on the sub- 2 frightful and,
I know that in the minds of phical entity
lime cry of "Librete, Egaifle, War of Asia versus The West? Russia, like
two-faced Fraternité,"
dichards there No man can be certain of humán sane
remains speedily resolved destiny but I do not think we, A conviction that low wages io giant, facing bath East and itself into an Imperialist war need logo sleep over such a the worker make big profits to West, saw the vast possibilitles against Luc other Imperialist prospect. The hydrogen bomb the management. That philoso- of this vast uprising. So (2)-
did powers of Europe. China, which had endured the In Asla there is a community even that old war
has set a problem to Mars which phy in not nearly 4B strongly cunquering unperialism
god cannot held as in the early days of backwardness, of poverty, answer,
Victorianism, but it still exists.
just happens that my busi-
TICAN is to put the case against Britain."
In my time I have
men
countered many destiny, but Nehru WIN something different. We could see that physically and mentally he WEB aristocrat who could have little appeal to the sweating nobs of Bombay. He pos- nessed none of the fire, the showmanship, the humour, the passion or the myati- eism of Gandhi. One could not imagine Nehru even looking at a goat, much less making a companion of it.
was
Question followed question as the Forles found their tongues. Did Mr Nehru not agroe That indu, instead of being a nation, ก sub-continent of antagonistic tribes and religions? Had not Britain brought justice to her courts and protection to her minorities? Was it not a fact that Britain had protected India from civil war and In- vasion?
He Sums Up
NEHRU Ustened like a rather
tired dormitory master when the boys are being noisy and even foolishi, Of course Britain had ruled Indija well. But India wha tired of being ruled. History had passed that point.
That was his case,
"When we achieve our face dum
and India becomes polt- governing, we shall certainly make mistakes: May I say that every nation is entitled to mako its own mistakes?!? Thus, the old Harrovian summed up the case for India's freedom.
While wo wore talking in that room overlooking the Thomes, there was an Austrian named Hitler, who was howling like a manice at the moon." Zhe great uphanvel of the Second World War wits not very far off.
I was left to Mr Attice, as the Socialist Prime Minister after Hitler's war had unded, to give India her.
Hure of munt gallant
batten who by the Burtna choren or the
Mount
India
WOM
destiny*** Altwo wont him an Viceroy to die with the "pure pow of finding a way of giving
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