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INDIA'S
BITTER CHOICE
By James Wickenden
A
CID-FILLED bulba thrown in people's faces or women shoved into burning houses are no newer in India than the monsoon.
Trams overturned and enamel factories fired are detalls which only emphasise the dusty rag- ridden cameness of the riota.
Even n crack in the dome of the Taj Mahal, India's architec- tural pearl, or the sight of businessmen having their shadows measured by
hell-
naked fortune tellers, sem 10 confrm no real change on the Mother brand, nolsy bosom of India
But when old shoes are hung
portrait in round Nehru's
the street, and he sees it to rive half dozen prep speeches in 24 hours, a crack bigger than the Taj's becomes visible in ediftes of its modern state.
the
The trouble gats back to 1953, to South India and Nehru's promise to create a one-language state after the novement's leader had starved to death. Andhra was the first lingual province and set a procedent for a new form of miniature nation- alism based on race and tongue. BOMBAY RIOTS
ANDHRA was also the strongest of the Indian Com- munist Party, then an offspring of the Kremlin. It was only a matter of time before other Indian peoples stirred so sub- nationalism. And for the Com- munists to (or the flomes despite being jettisoned by Russia in the Bulganfu wooing of Delhi.
So Parly this year Bombay blew up in the worst rials ever seen there. Both the Mahrattos Bombay and Gujeratis wanted
own
as the capital of their lingual states. They were crush- ed by tight rings of police fring tear-gas and bullets.
out
STLES
Cupid is a knavish lad - Thus to make poor females mad. (Shakespeare.)
HENRY THE SECOND
London Express Service
THE
FABULOUS -FORDS=
WINS FIGHT FOR POWER
W
PART FOUR OF DON IDDON'S FASCINATING STORY OF A FAMILY
WALN
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I
Henry When
II: the, empire it ap
fosing
that
it
grandfather, who
He needed
a cabinet
to his comp from it HEN Henry Ford Towards the end of his era many wrongs to be righted and destroy Bennett's
within.
signed it. owes it was his job, the
Bennett said: "Mr Ford First
Henry Other men rallied to
Young Ford and his group me nothing. am not a sleuth, He had a brief year with the becoming an old, I'm not Mr Ford's closest asso- company after leaving Yale and II, wlthough now and again he dared not meet in the Ford fac
He fold tory itself, and hired a Detroit tired man, losing cinte and adviser as the news- Joined the Navy in 1941, where became discouraged. money by the millions and papers sometimes tell it, I am he would have stayed until the his friends: "This thing killed hotel room to plan their cum-
but for the my father me, and I am
paim. be damned the war for the Ford end of trouble-shooter a
Jack Davis lot
described the by
it. I being outmagoeuvred
death of his father. Motor Company"
veit kli
1st meeting
***This WES officially The quarrel was
General Motors, Harry Ben-
With Henry I. showing Later he was to contradict
his going to get out before rite revolution, and Henry was lead-
to write He even threatened with the firing "I'm Mr great age and closed when Nehru
nett was at the peak of his himself and say: announced
of the leading Ford to all the Ford dealers telling ing it. that
Here of some Mahrattas nor neither
Ford's personal man." power. could
garded Henry Ford II, as a boy executives Bennett was almost them that they should save
the company was damn fast." Sikha
have Bombay--
in full power and an innocent.
dying and Delhi would rule it instead,
themselves. This was tho To round the Iron-ilsted of the
Henry II., who was in the re-entered Delhi moved to Bom-
of 1940. at Yale, didn't peared to be crumbling. The period when the company was decision,
class
$300 on every car a cider Ford had lost his grip. belonged to bay
chief Gopi secret police
graduate
Perhaps the Second World made and was getting deeper Handso His orders: winkle
number of secret societies and
the
War had taken more out of the and deeper in the red. faingus ulie Communist lice
clubs, including who fixed
than we all His friends told him to con- "Book and Snake." He managed last bullionaire
DUT the fight.
there had been a leak And Henry B tinue the Yale crew
and was solld, know.
There was little peace in his Ford I., by the spring of 1945, somewhere and Bennett had been tipped of. When young dependable, downright, and ex- tremely likable. He liked fun.
Own factorics. Bennett was was in his dotage.
to the administra- 11. to Ford went Bugas ovised Henry
next day but the stories that young Ford running the show and Henty It.
found himself with responst strike hard at Bennett and have tion building the
him and way a playboy did not stand up.
bility and no power. He had a crisis conference with old Bennett came up to
*Henry, a
wonderful Edsel's Fald: the title of Executive Vice- Henry and Mrs Ford. President, but, as he says: " widow also helped her son in a thing has happened. I've been grandfather talking with your nover had any specifle job that hundred ways. SKED why he didn't graduate
and I've persuaded him to make 1 can remember." from Yale he says: "They Whenever he
you president of the company." tried to
Henry II.
nothing, but I was thought
too stupid,
anything done Bennett guess,'
say: "I've just been Maybe Harry Bennett thought that over with your grand-
Ho was too stupid also.
father and it's been decided used to say: "There are a lot that
"I've just come grandfather, who
the riota. To aid him was Bom- buy's ines, S. K. Patil who unce ron Andhra's Congress Parly machine
the Com- and beat munists in the last vilal clex-
tion. He claims optimistically
that this is a time for a show- down with the Communists."
But no one
believes thut 13 the end of the affair. The one-.
issue has only begun language
to explode. Two great peoples. the Mahrattus and the Sikhs-- still ferment and thirst for their own state.
HARD TO RESIST PROBLEM before Delhi-to re-
cist sub-nationalism will play into Communist hands; to let it loose will splinter the precarious unity of India, held together by the linchpin of Delhi and aging Nehru.
Sub-nationalizm
would also hann other peoples', and their interests and probably
start
more
history.
of those terrible refugee familiar in India's early
But the pressure is hard to resist. For the Mohratlas and are two of India's most both form orous races, and
virile contingents in
large, India's armed forces.
And,
to
He had five homes a ranch house and islarul estate on the Detroit River, a "coltage"
Oriental Lake Sinclaire,
OTI mansion on Grosse le, and cabins on another island in Michigan's Huron River.
His Influence over Ford was complete. Bennett's office, which Ford frequently used, in administration building in Dearborn, had a oft-square control board with and signal lights, switch keys, buttons and radio-telephones.
the
company's
he
The Riddle
"
of geniuses around here and I from
was
your
響
get
would
talking
The Letter
Sald
after the directors' meeting,
when the others were leaving TIFFENED with this support he motioned to Bennett and young Henry want to see his told him to stay. Then he told grandfather at Fair Lane,
and
was shocked at the old man's Bennett:
"You and I don't and never appearance.
agree about things, He talked for
and If I am going to be hours with his grandmother
I this company, about the difficulties and dan don't want you in my organisa-
that were engulfing the tion."
Bennett
дств Ford interests.
THROUGH this board he con- trolled the Ford special police and received messages hope Henry Ford It. will learn says and sent out instructions.
to back then as his grand- Ford used to keep $4,000,000 father did." "petty cash" in an office safe.
Young Ford became a direc- Bennett expected to
get the tor of the company and
Тупа through, al- $4,000,000 when Henry died, well liked in the factory and
Mrs Ford pledged her full though he continued to get his bat he never did - Henry II. executives offlees. He moved
co-operation and Henry 1. him- malary for 10 months. saw to that.
slowly and leamed fast. Ben-
perhaps When he walked out Bennett At the peak of his
not power nett sald Henry 1. would
ATER Henry II said: "Bennett self, perhaps feeble or
realising at last what was hap- left behind him a company in Bennett received $75,000 a year allow him or anyone else to L
and I were going at cach pening to the colossus he had chaos, and it was Henry Ford director. coach young Ford. The grand- other by this time. It was built, agreed to resign the IT. who brought order and later salary, and His homes were worth well son of the Industrialist sald, matter of who could do what to presidency of the company and huge proat and prosperity. over $1,000,000, He placed his
whom. One of we was going advise that young Henry own key men in the factories and built up his information network.
He
Wun ry
1932 hunger
wns
#
"I'm green and looking for the answers."
re-
to end up on top. There sure plate him. Acting with speed One of the answers he was to as hell wouldn't be any in-
to forestall Bennett, Henry 11. look for was the riddle of between."
prepared a letter laying down tough as a bull Harry Bennett and his
im
Young Henry needed lieuten this new arrangement, and took
found them. He power. Henry Ford II. onts, and he even in his fifties. During the mense
march his neck is not a glib talker, but he did got Jack Davis, a friend of the former sales man- was broken and he was knocked say this: "You just couldn't family and 15 Nehru, sub-nation-
unconscious. One of the men tolk with grandfather about agor, and he recruited John alism's greatest threat must be
killed in the riot fell on top of Bennett. He wouldn't listen, or Bugas, a former FBI man who (o his brain-chud of Indian
Bennett and perhaps saved him if he did he'd cut you off with had once worked for Bennett, socialism and the brave new
from death.
something about Bennett being This was a daring world to be built from five year
Bennett
not only Was
In his loyal right_orm."
but It came off. Bugas in- plans, the second of which has
charge of the plant poilee, he The young Ford, today head nitrated Bennett's system with just been launched. Above all,
the vast firm which
He was the also protected Edsel's children of
his his own agents. these plans depend on rational
from kidnapping on Henry randfather bulit, probably felt counter secret agent working unity and a sense of building Ford's instructions.
from the start that there were for Henry II, and helping to economic progress among
Rackallsm may
well peasants. bring such dreams to a frind- ing halt.
and
the
But the darkest cloud of all over the great continent is the fate of Nehru himself. In his hands have been gathered all the important reins of power, and observers say he is aging fast. If he goes soon, the food- | gates of hate will open.
GRAVE PROBLEM
THEN-a pessimistic buti-
nessmen - India will be Balkanised in a decade. A great
I
DOCTOR WARNS: TEDDY BOYS WITH A COSH
PENICILLIN BRINGS
[OSPITAL
NEW DANGER
(FROM A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT).
move
London often proof against other power- como inured to almost all of
them. authorities ful antibloties too.
is that
nation, the bulwark of. modern Have seriously concerned of the results spreading-and
nationalism in South Asia and
alombed in racial wars.
So far Nehru has apparently
That
is why the Medical has ECHL ila chief moral support, will · bro because doctors are using cocking a mook at the "wonder arch Counsell
behind the Iron Curtain for killers too freely-even for defying microbes are mainly to penicillin and other germ- drugs."
antibiotic The strange new -drug- samples of a now
called albomycin. groomed a successor, or stiffen- ed the higher levels of his party coughs and colds.
be found where they can do tha Russian doctors claim that If this goes on, against the shock of his death.
this red the doctor most hanh-in hospitals,
powder is 10 times India could accept the death may become a sort of Teddy
than stronger
aina: just. penicillin of Gandhi because other men of Boy with an anti-blotic cosh là More than half the nurses in a safo... stature word
there, young.
his hand," enys Dr. James some large hospitals harbour. But, more important, it pro enough to hold the country to Ronald, of Inverness, in the them in the nose or throat, vents gums from bulking up. without being made til in any resistance to it, and will kill
gether on a continuing,
ing too of Prdellloner.
iational sentiment. But
Nahru is like the last of the Mohleapa --there are no more after him. The is India today, with her bitter cholceelther of a forest of sintes
within the threatening unity, or an more rigid control from Delhi,
Penicillin is widely regarded way. ·But they can pass on gerins against which penicilla as the "anfest" germüller in these dangerous Korins to has become powerlem.
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