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'Fireside Chats'
They start each evening with a Japanese Buddhist chant, followed by prayers and hymns
then a talk which may profoundly affect the course of Indian opinion
By V. MANICKAVASAGAR
"N
AM yo ho rang gay kyo -Nam yo ho rang gay kyo."
With the charting of this Japanese Buddhist "mantra," Mahatma Gandhi's now famous daily prayer meeting begins.
As soon as Candhi has taken his
the sent on the platform behind microphone, Gandhi's granddaughter chants the Japanese Buddhist invo cation to Buddhn. Gandhi sits with eyes closed and head bowed in deep meditation.
When the chanting is over Gandhi says,
"The minute shunt!" (two minutes alience). After allence, i Nearly every day, for appro-
sinkus ximately 25 years, Mohandas Mannu Gandhi repeats two
from the ancient Hindu scriptures Kuranohand Gandhi has held -the Upanishads-which Is follow- prayer meeting, which begins ed by a few verses from the Gita exactly at 5.30 in the evening, the Holy Book of the Hindus. These When he is not travelling, verees relates to the Gad Krishna's Gandhi holds his prayer meeting requirements in a seil-restrained" They are control of one's
man.
During recent months of com- munal tension, Ganki hna added a ine to the chant which preceden his This ine 15- pest-prayer address. "Ishwarliah Thery Nam-Sab ko San Math They Bhagwan." It means: "God is the same being even if Hindus call him fawne and Mus Ilms call Him Allah').
One prominent leader compares Gant's post-prayer meetings to the tate President Roosevelt's fireside chats. He said the fireside chat was powerful medium for putting across the Presidential point of view, and Gandhi was using his post- prayer addresses to put across the Gandhian point of view.-United
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In his permanent residence-his passions, happiness within oneself. R
nahram at Sewagram, near calmness in rnisery and in joy, nud Nagpur in the Central Pro- control of anger and fear. vinces. When in Delhi, Gandhi
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holds his prayer meeting at the Sweeper's Colony where he stays.
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"We always encourage Junior to take part in the conversations.”
Now the British
are in a 'ghetto
JERUSALEM.
EG RILEY, a major in British Headquarters, Palestine, carefully parks squat German pistol in the
left-hand
n
of corner Y.M.C.A. Jerusalem squash court, and proceeds to beat blue murder out of a small black squash ball and his ollicer op- ponent.
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HIS is followed by a few verses from the Karan, the Muslim 'Holy During the last six months while Book, and the Zendayasta, the scrip- Gandhi was walking through the ture of the Zomas'cians. Then the
At about the same time of the day rlat torn villages of East Bengal and eleven vows of the ashram by which Noakhali. he held his prayer meet all inmates of Gandhi's athram are ings in a different village each day, bound, are recited. They are ahimsa Rex Keating-tall, wiry deputy dir-
truth,
non-posses-ector of the Palestine Broadcasthu In the explosive atmosphere which (non-violence),
today. prevalis in India
Gandhi's sion, celbey. body labru, deaden- Station-relaxes over his latest time prayer meetings have been the sub- ing of senses, fearlessness, quality expender-model airplanes.
country, In the district commissioner's house of all religious, loyalty to jeet of a great deal of controversy.
spirit
non-depen at the fat end of the German colony, ffekeeper of the dence.
Jerusalem Museum is catching up Then one of the followers, usual-on his archaeological reading. and In wondering when he will next see the n hymn. a womas, sings recent months, Gandhi's favourite museum he is supposed to keep.
beon has
Rabindranath walk Tagore's "Ek La Chalo" ("I Buddhist alone"). Japanese chant, Nain yo ho rang gay kyo," which means. "I bow to Buddha to whom I offer my prayer."
A Ritual
was
ly
INCE the prayer meeting
Arst held, Gandhi has evolved a kind of ritual. It is no! widely hymn realised that his prayer meeting be- gins with the
and of service
Harry
Killing-time
to be
By PETER DUFFIELD
terusalem-one of Jerusalem's three Superbly disciplined, like, all Bri- zones. has a cl.b, pub, library, cricket terbly discipline
but on the the British alich, one cinema, and one snooker wholz disinterrried, table.
soldier has above all a two-digit target before his eyes-his release group.
Except for those whose wives were in secretarial or nursing work and were allowed to remain beyond the evacuation, It is a bachelor lifeof
which the heart is the Sports Club
The bar is out of Scutch, and serves Trish whisky and bottled Palestinian beer. There was a full dress dance with flowing gowns rrectly.
Government efficials realise that
until the United Nations Commission make up its mind, they are at best. an freerim Government that may be supplanted and inixed or worked in
with other adminstrators.
Thus in transit they have tended to forget what they are here for to bring as nearly as possible to- #ether two populations who will to live here long after the
And over the door by the bar there are prominently displayed
three' telephone numbers--the most Impor tant ones in Palestine today. the Bit have left. central and district police stations.
Still meet
At Rotary Club luncheons
Today, again, the police are sweep- ing around the garden of the British Counell building with mine detectors.
Bri- and inspecting the sofas and carpets and corners within for possible hidh, Jew and Arab still sit together. They meet at British Council func- den mines.
Uons--one of the few remaining Arab-Jewish brligehends — rarely u.sewhere.
Forgotten aim
But some officials remain aloof
she has
Sir Henry Gurney, chief secretary Following the hymn, Gandhi makes makes his speech. His prayer of the Palestine Government, is.
The non-rebellious. British have addresses touch upon many matters. maybe, planning another successful
accepted this new insulated regime And Licut.-General Macmillan, with
notable humour, Men have from communities over whom they Some years previous to the out- He spenks in Hindustani in a clear, parlour game party.
G.O.C. break of the Second World War a deliberate voles. He explains versey
Palestine, is fast becoming taken to music, painting, gardening, are supposed to officiate.
Britain in many ways has good of the country's lending players consuming detective stories and Zendu- Japanese coine to Gandhi's Sowa- from be, toly books of the world, one
reason to be aloof from Palestine, of "lar dice."
talking while drink. But they
they
today. gram ushram and expressed a desire the Bible, Gita, Koran and
All this is happening in Jerusalem are hardly governing... Permission vasta, and often discusses politics, Gandhi. to stay with
'today behind barbed wire. Your
The mandate, in which The great shadow of extremlam was granted. Every morning the Hindu-Muslim relationships, sociai
his hygiene, rural economy, village up- tinsmen the British of Palestine has never laid so heavily on Pales faced violent and mutually exclusive Japanese "disciple" began Nam lift, nature eure and a variety 01
chanting of
who quite seriously stand
tine before. Thuggery has crippled nationalist ambitions for 30 years prayers with the cha
blown up, shot or even hanged by Government administration, industry, playing that mandate out before an Jewish terrorist thugs, have resigned trade, manufacture and economy. It audience packed from floor to ceiling themselves to these possibilities. hns paralysed the community it has with critics has not been blessed in
Pulestine, They have taken the maximum professed to help the Jews.
Seventy thousand British soldiers, Let the critics of Lake Success step NANDHI'S post-prayer addresses precautions against them, and swop-
are printed in most of the news-ped places with the Jewry of history. except for those needed to keep the up on the stage and help to play out
The British is who live in ghotios. extremists of the two communities the Ume.
the ghettos must How long papers la India. The National press in
Seventy thou
thousand British troops from each others' throats, are wast- variably prints full nuthorised ver-
Inst? sions. Even the Muslim League or have disappeared into their coming their time here.
pounds (except for those on duty), Ignore not completely
and must find their recreation with- Gandhi's past-prayer addresses, especially when the Mahatma-re- in their camps. verses u previous statement.
Inconsistencies
ye he rang gay kyo." On the morn- other diversified subjects. ing of December 7, 1041, Japan entered the war, this Japanese "disciple" was arrested and removed from the Sewagram ashram, in his incorporated memory, Gandhi has
scene
the Buddhist chant Into his prayer.
A typleni prayer meeting follows:
Typical Scene
Fans
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So have 1,900 A.T.S. giris, between; 2.000 and 3,000 men of the R.A.F., IN the Sweeper's Colony in Deihl gathered. some 500 people are
Gandhi himself has admitted his 800 naval types. 3,600 British pollee-
men, and 790 Government oficials. They come from all walks of life.
Speaking to and inconsistencies.
They all share one new great all stages of society-coolies
months
restriction-mavement Palestinian clerks, doctors and engineers, polit- foreign correspondent some
have is reported to clans and writers, and even some ago, Gandhi
India's first Interim laughingly said: "You see I am in- without escort. members of
consistent." Consistency is the bug- Government.
benr of small minds-I have a large
Exactly at 5.30 p.m. Gandal walks mind." from his room at the Sweeper
Gandhi is all considered by Colony to the raised platform behind
the most powerful barbed wires and wooden fencing. many to be Invariably Gandhi is aided by his force in India, and during periods of granddaughter, Mannu Gandhi, and political crisik his another womal..
closely observed.
utterances Are
Beer, cricket
For the 700 or so Government officials now in the capital, life, in Jerusalem has every attribute of an English village life, except the pond. "Zone A" the boomerang-shaped area in the old German colony of
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
A realised the other
day
for "having too many players Lut
out the Bulgarian giant, Shavoz,
on, the ice."
suitable for an English N ice-hockey tearn was Trivett knocks out Shavoz might be
documentary film. She would play night Stan Trivelt knocked Mies Frozen Cod in a film "designed to make the public cod-conscious.** only the other elected Miss Saucepan This trick is in the first round. Shavoz, warned For Mimsle, who,
1047, to get in the first attack, rushed from day, was achieved by careful methods. His comer like a tornado or words this would be as easy as falling off Trivett, who had mad camel. Her mother said: "I It is no good one side sending to that effect.
do so think the public needs more out 39 players, and hoping the come out slowly, and was leaning cod. Mimste never illeed it, but I do far back on his heels, looked casy referee will be knocked out be- game. Money for jam, as the lady say personal preferences don't mal- Her father said: "Cod's the ter." fore he can notice anything sald when she handed over five
word, all right. One gigantic cod." shn ings for wet carton of
plum- unusual.
Fxins called Apricot Special.
ALE the Last year when
Greased Shavoz came within walloping dis- Dr. Rhubarb's corner
tance, Stan took a long step side.. Thunderbolts played the
went by ken jet- wayn, Shayoz Typhooneers, the referee saw one extra player among the Thunderbolts, propelled rhinoceros and Stan, turn- ing, followed him and drove both big girl who was introduced as the Asts into the small of the Bulgarian's Captain's sister Dolsy. He ordered back. Down went. Shavez for the ter. off, and at that moment notlerd
C count. her huge boots and massive legs. It was Dalswith, the demon player from Stoke, who promptly knocked the re- feree senseless, at least, more sense- less than he was before, and carried The Thunderbolts to victory.
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