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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947.
Clive Street looking
still
for
Sahibs
T
By SYDNEY SMITH
CALCUTTA. HEY are asking for more sahibs in Clive-street. Cal. cuttu.
brightest, Biggest and best that money can Import, and two-thirds of them British,
That la Clive-street from the out side, a shell and noisy doub, blended does not Inok too rich to count its millions.
It
mille, foundries from the East and the West.
the Indians 40 per cent.
That s reason number and why British busi- ness could not quit India even if it both too closely Involved. or, the Indians wished.
They are
Indians know and frankly explain that the British presence means their and mines nre managing in a way which is above meral or economic reproach. British technicians are irreplaceable,
For us, you and me,,British con- trol means that orders for and
spaces ef machinery,
and me- replacements of mac terial for the industrialisation of In- dia, will continue to come to Britain,
While the British administra- tors, political agents and soldiers are quitting the India united by Clive, the British businessmen of the second city of the Empire, On the inside the men of Clive-street, have de cided to stay on in the India split PEHIND the Clive-street doors, the by the conflict of Nehru and Calcuta income tax authorities say, work 100 Indian and British Jinnah.
businessmen with incomes of be tween £35,000 and £70,000 a
In spite of Indian Government ex- a year, and 1,000 others whose incomes are licences to restrict imports to those port quotas and Increasing import from £2.000 to £35,000 a year. businessmen working in and around boom which will not be acotched on things which India cannot yet make Altogether there are 2,000 British herself, Clive-street seen a minor Clive-street, and not one of them, the boundaries of Hindustan from the most junior clerk upwards,
Pakistan. carns less than £15 a week.
They refuse to be ruffled by the birth pangs of the two new Indian Dominions. But they are perturbed, they tell me, by the lack of sahibs needed to re- place the wartime wastage, and to roplace the older men now due for retirement.
Clive-street is not n good- looking street. In parts it smells, and not just of moncy. It is Leadenhall-street and Min- cing-lane with a dash of the Caledonian. Market and a cow pasture.
Beating up against the great brass-plated and pillared portals of its ultra-modern granite and concrete buildings is an Asiatic flood of squatting pavement hawkers, scabrous beggars, pira- tical looking conlies and drowsy, holy Brahmin cows..
Among them scurry the In- dian businessmen. who carry
Tho cows won
They work in omecs from which
nstel
In the last year five percent of the
British-owned lea gardens have been sold, because Indians, glutted with wartime profits, were offering five times their prewar value. The British who sold out will be able to buy back at half the prioc' in an- other Ave years.
Fortresses
WHEN the Culcutta city man drives home at five o'clock It is only
to stay long enough for a bath and a change before going to "The Club,” which means any one of ti dnzen elegant, cool buildings where bare- fonted, turbaned servants bring him his burra peg-double Scotch,
D
1'9
QUEUE
"I shall puft away at me Empire tobacco all through American
films, on principle.
In Japan today Britain very much in the shade
By a Special Correspondent in Tokyo
The
O not run away with the
ideals and policies of the Iden that General Mas- Krem in nie a big a bogey to Arthur is loosening his fron industrial plutocrats as they": grip on Japan.
are to the Amirlane..
Though he has sanctioned the re-opening, rext month, of pri- vate trade between Japan and the Allied nations, Japan is very muon an American colony.
The ordinary Jap-in-the-street is
lowly swinging to the lot, but it is. democratic left. The 7,000,000 Christians in the wountry, are, of
course, a big lever In democratic progress.
umbrellas, but whose bare feet the stench and noise of the pave ever been a member or a guest, is can be seeif, to keep it that way by their absence.
Bro
These clubs, these fortresses, are as unshaken by impending changes
There are mony Industrial as Clive-street. The exclusive Sa. - Poker-faced, uncommunicative advisory bodies active, nearly all turday Club, where no Indian has MacArthur intends, so far as of them American, British and other. Allied business men are conspicuous staying and cotton dhotis belie the size and that we nor and of a three-year-long British
exclusive, with a rosy future
For how long? waiting divine cows might well be a thou- of their bank balances..
list for sand miles away. Marble doors and
All the undamaged factories are permatient membership. That is the Calcutta which is ask-
The Japs themselves would going full blast where raw materials The cows occupy most of the teak panelling enfold them,
especially like to know.
Many They are available.
others From the gilt carved frames on the ing for new young British blood. pavement just outside the great
is getting. It fast airendy, but still don't tell the Europeans any- walls the founders of Clive-street's
being rebuilt. doors of the Chartered Bank of mille first suhlbs, valf rot's not fast enough, though recruitment thing as they go about their But in spite of this the official India, Australia and
is Chinu. Iars, half businessmen-looit alrlly of rouble the prewar figure. A business with bint ant-like in figure of Japan's Jobless is given
Ages Millionaires cannot move them down from the past with pompous Minimum starting pay for an un- dustry, that inscrutable docility gaged in unscheduled enterprises as 700,000, with another 200,000 en- and there are 25 who work in complacency.
qualled man of the right type" is But
sense their which For the Juniors In these
Include. black", "market Clive-street.
offices £15 a week. A provident fund will thoughts. of ceiling fans stir the thick guarantee that even if he does not hot air. For the bigger executives the latest American-bullt air condi- reach the big jobs he can retire in
30 years on £1,000 a year. lloners, humming discreetly, trans- form the air.
Ecores
The biggest business in Clive-street
British is done by the
managing
Sahibs only
cal sult, a man controlling £40,-
one can
The Russians would alan like very much to know,
That, however, is another and a very important story.
What is life like in conquered Japan?
of British and 'Indiart | be-seen-to-be realised------
On the outside THE cows won that stretch of pave- ment from the first members of the Calcutta Stock Exchange who gathered there to bid 50 years hold shares in nearly
agencies, firms which manage and is this "right type"? I heard every jute alt.about him, I must admit, ago. Walking carefully over the cows
Iron over several chota pegs in a club.
American influence is obvious and the slippery orange splashes of mill, tea garden, coal mine.
foundry, machine
machine works and ship- My informant was a big executive, everywhere, | betelnut-chew staining the pavement.
It is shrill and in North India. ning company you can buy anything from combs,
For a typleal traditional bronzed Im-strident. The impact which it unworkable fountain-pens and bug 5,000
their chma
they employ about
out periat type in an immaculate trupi has had on Japanese life has to powder to freshly peeled pine-appleThe first dozen British managing 000,000 worth" and cool coconut milk.
At the end of the street an indian agencies in Cilve-street run, und interests in Bengal. traffle pollerman stands under a sun- with a capital value of more than nicions, men with agricultural train-
partly stoff with Britons, companies He anid: "Of course we want tech- · NO SLACKERS shade on what, they say, was once 600,000,000. They own about £30, ng, accountants, engineers of all the site of the Black Hole of Cal- 200.000 of the total shares. The rest types. But we are taking untrained, visitor is impressed by is the Almost the first thing the cutta. The memorial there was taken away a little more than ten years ago because it offended the Indians, ahead of the politicians in acceptance
Twenty years ago Clive-street was fed men, tou. Men with good eager activity of the people.
school or good Army records." who disbelieve the whole story.
And solemnly he added: "What we a week, they work with a will. From dawn to dusk, seven days of the growing force of Indian - want are sahibs... Between the two pavements of tionalism. It began right then wen- Clive-street, where
It sounded for a moment the rickshawa, ving Indian interests and
like a and rattling old taxis run, there are control into its affairs.
Indian cynical joke or a cry from the past.
But it was neither. parked every day three lines of busi-
It is the slogan Today British Interests have & Gu nessmen's motor cars. They are the per cent control of Calcutta's trade,
** Indian.
BY THE WAY
the of Anthology of
for the future of Clive-street,-Cal- cutta.
by Beachcomber
Huntingdonshire cabmen
IT can hardly be claimed for the
A friend who happened to be
by his side, "Let not the cobbler go beyond
his last."
There are no slackers, Forty- hour weeks are unknown.
This acceptance of the gospel of work is the thing that will ultimately save Japan. It will also give many a headache to the victorious nations, America included.
Just look what they have done already to Hiroshima.
Thin smoke pours from thou- sands of chimneys and roof holes. The town scethes with industry. There are shops and restaurants and places of enter tainment.
activilica.
KIMONO GOING
of colour in the post-war strecta of One looks in vain for the old blaze
ine Jap cit.cs. Silk rationing of the most stringent kind has changed the acesses of the women. The kimono la going completely as a day-to-day garment.
Bri- many of Japan's silk, like
ain's foremost products, goes ever- Ecus as export. Overseas. That is, to America!
Bulked by the Russians of "what" once looked to be a big chance in China, the Americans are determin- cluding her vital bas
get all they can in Japan, in-
Where does Britain come in'? Well, the word Allied is seldom
zines are difficult to act in Japan, heard in MacArthur's kingdom.
Ailled books, papers and maga*
although the "Pro-American-Anti- All-Others" Reader's Digest. sells XO0,000
Issue, copies per
The
Saturany Evening Post and Life are cusily cota.nable.
The Japanese Prime Minister complains that he cannot get a re- pular copy of the Times. The Daily Express comes only by post,
COLOURFUL 'DRILL
Almost the one, but assuredly a most effective, plece of British pro- paganda is the colourful guard drill outside the British Embassy and oc- casionally at the gates of the paince.
Br fish and Empire troops vie with cach other in machine-like in this XL PYCLIE ON C rave- ment in these cir
errimoniais.
Clasps cf admiration go up front the onlookers as they ace, shall we
criticising the ballet seri- ously is that it is so difficult to avoid a phrase here and there newly published "Anthology of that may send the normal man Huntingdonshire Cabmén" that it is, In passing into howls of laughter. For in the words of an over-enthusiastic instance. I have been reading a critic "a masterpiece of Imaginative READING of a singer who "had a criticism in which I suddenly literature, The Anthology
tendency to drown the accom- consists
Hard, indeed, to believe tat came on these words.".
of the more striking names the
(with panist," I recall the old tradition in little more than a year ago it in tials) from each of three volumes; Fayreuth Young accompanists wero dancers seemed to get in each it is a factual and unemphatié work, driven into a publie bath, and the Was a city of the dead. ruined cay, a reg mental go! in gleaming other's way a good deal." What and the compiler has skimmed the shallest were drowned and the rest fun! Can't you see them bun- cream from the lists. Here are such ven away to friends... ching and shoving, and whis, old favourites as Whackfast, E. W... pering "Push up there, you oaft Fodge, S. and Nurthers, P. L. The Commercial course. Get away! Then the criticism index is accurate, and the introduc goes on to talk of a choreo on by Cabman Skinner is brief and graphy-which "tends to make
workmantik
use of extravagant lifts and Song movements that are apt to look ́"P'li med again," the lonely more ingenious than beautiful."
So narrow is the gulf between the contortionist or the wrestler and the ballet-dancer.
NANCY Fair Warning
POIFECT DAY. FER A HIKE, NANCY
SUPER
cobbler cried,
"Nor will I sit and muse upon the past."
"Ne ator ultra, crepidam," repiled
and torn beyond recognition.
tras collar and anowy pipe-clayed frappings take an integral part In Democracy's chances of sur. This pomp and panoply so peculiarly. vival in the new Japan are diffi. British and so perfectly executed, cult to assess, because the big
The yen worth 44. in English (Lesson 1.) industrial cabal still has a paid in dollars converted into scrip currency. The American soldier is couple of fingers on the reins which he may spend at his glamoris and will pick them up when That is the oficial order, but n
cd Naan. MacArthur lets go.
dollar bill felches 50/60 yen in the One thing, at all events, is black market, which means that the certain, and it is that the Japa U.S. dollor of pay will buy as much would rather have democracy as one English pound. than its only alternative-om. British soldier very bad y, and he Tlits d'screpancy in pay hits the cannot be blamed if he growls,
"Success attends the daring,"
In a muxim often heard, 'But convention must be guarded
Though youth abhors the word. With a great career before you,
It is foolish to begin, With your shirt outside your waist,
coat,
And your bracęb next your skin. munisti.
By Ernie Bushmiller.
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