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BAB and FLOUNDER MAUNDY, WALTER
ET
THE HONGKONG- LEGRAPH,”", SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1949,
autoblography. Just published in n England
THE MAKING of a SAINT
OTHING is more fascinating than to
bo shown the unsuspected beginnings of human greatness. The gealus and the saint nearly always cxhibit in childhood certain portents, yet they are almost perversely misleading, we can never be humanly wiso until after the event.
In the account of his life which Gandhi wrote more than 20 years ago and which has now appeared in Britain in English translation, the outline emerges of n man formed and destined from boy- hood to be a saint...
... MOHANDAS. KARAMCHAND
CANDHI
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Bom new Alveda- bad 1869 to middla. snea marchant parents; called to Bar in London 1389: thred 23 year in South Africa led Indian Nationalist movement after 1914-10 watt assassinated, New Delhi, Jan 30, 1948,
By
can
towards sim-
-by
Margaret Lane
use if the ascetic in not to become a tyrant or a crank..
downi for tho guidance of others that he found celibacy easy on diet-of-fruit and nuts alone; as soon as he took to drinking milk' continence
Do- came difficult.)
A
Lask
Waking ***the* abject and The vitality which other raen allterate masses of India to a expend on a thousand different sense of their own human and pleasures and concerns, and, his national dignity was immenso human tenderness, which perhaps only a saint, a Gandhi devoted to the servicu mar simpler and -mora, pro- of the Indian people.
found than any politician could hope to accomplish,
CELIBACY
The material capable of pro-
That Gandhil; did achieve it Gandhi was accustomed as # and from this point be made ducing the phenomenon seems boy to
in his life-time. Is nearly u the spectacle
of self stendy progresa
The vow of celibacy which miracle; and it is wonderfully to be much the same now as discipline. His mother was a plielty,
ho took in middle In the Middle Ages.
He was It must devout
that the belloved woman who include a passion for renuncia- profoundly in fasting and the vegetarianlam he freed himself "it became my conviction that quantes which made it pos
BY the strictest form of taken with purpose, because moving to discover tion, as strong na other men's taking of vows ne aids to self- from a world of trouble for procreation and the consequent simplicity and renunciation of sible were the, ancient truth, more ordinary passions and restraint and who clearly ex-
that more care of children are incolisis the flesh which from time im- so urgent
of eternal perienced a kind of pleasure in time and labour are spent ou tent
deny n.senso
nobody
with public service." values that there can be no her sterilica.
memorial havo fortifled "civilised" food than
is (Aware to what a very great gaints. it compromise with the world and
worth. We make too much of degree we are conditioned by Its frittering away.
Jt, it is a side of life that most what we eat, Gandbl loys it must be achieved, at whatever
drastically needs to be simpli- cost, to not the soul free for its real concerns.
.
Simplicity
The Story Of My Experiences With Truth. Phoenix Press, 21a.
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Her Six Children
*NEW
Made
YORK:
Chosen
as
Good
NO WINE
There
A Joy to such fled, and Gandhi with his bowl natures. In the severest Belt. of fruit and nuts was able to dental but it has also prae- savo much time and energy for tical purpose, the habit of the things that mattered. renunciation long continued He early realised that only us to make sacrifices extreme simplicity in every- and perform feats of will, when thing leaves a. man Uime in they
necessary without which his roul can grow. He effort.
discovered, as all holy
men young must do, that self-denial is a mun visited England to read powerful
source of strengin, and that an net of renunciation in doubly valuable if it is also symbolic. "Medleally there may be two opinions as to the value of this diet, but morally I have no doubt that all self-denial is good for the soul."
When Gandhi
law ho was not the ascetic no
was later to become, but to please his mother he had taken a vow not to touch wine, ment of her creations-in tins. She for women during his stay. America's mother of the year, is beginning with
Boup
Wine Mrs Pearle Gin, a 60-year-old vichyssoise, tomato and bacon,
have seems Bever to post office worker's wife, has poliato and watercruist, creati
been a temptation to him, ony six children, and this is what of artichoke, watercress
(since schooldays) and more than they have done in life: one son chicken, onion, and cream of smoking which he regarded as is, a top broadcasting executive, tomato, Said Mrs Lucas, "I habit "barbarous, dirty and anather is a diplomat, another And they taste just as
but well harmful" is a professor of English, another from the tin as from the pot." - in n. muzlelan, and two daughters are also musicians.
Cure-all
NEW YORK:
Crooked courtesy
ho
children at an age when Eng- ish boys are still at school, ho knew his own sexual nature
HUMILITY
has
the
-(London Express Service)
HOPKINS SECRETS
By George Malcolm Thomson
F anybody wishes to measure in one painful glance the worsening of relations among the great Powers who fought the war against Hitler, he need look no further than the new volume of The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, by Robert E.
(Advantures of
tter in.
Shaw
-NOV-1.
ومهاب
DICTURED ·here'ls an en-"
velope unique evon among the enormous, corres- pondence of George Bernard Shaw. It was delivered; to him recently from an "ade mirer In America.
This man vislied each of three placer bearing GBS's namics-GEORGE and, BER- NARD in Iowa and SILAW In Misafsalpp.; He took with him an envelope stamped three times and had a stamp postmarked at each place.
This was then despatched with no other address. IS turned up safely 'at the Shaw home at Ayot St› LawrONDO, Heris,
Bhaw's comment, (written on the face of the envelupo)1' "All three have taken my names in vain. I was never in any of them.”
The United Biales kas four places named Shaw, four 'Georges and two Bernards,
-(London Expreza Servies)
REVEALS STALIN
He expounds his views on the
From Sher- He liked to balt Churchill; wood's account, nobody can be sure to what ex. Far East, a favourite tople. Re- form should begin at the bottom. Church tent the fun was good-natured.
The chapter on the. Teheran That means revolution, Stalin, emerges as tho chlef
opponent Conference is an important dis- points out. the Second closure of high events. Front, fearing
Poak of amity" plaughter on the beaches,
ot
and constantly seek- 1 was the flext meeting of Ing alternative Roosevelt and Stalin; it was
also, as Sherwood thinks, plans.
peak of Allied amity.
Political artist
I
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Roosevelt, one day at lunch; 7 remarks that Russia ought to: have access to the Manchurian port of Dalrea.
This is, perhaps, the most im- t
Political Testament
-
the portant revelallon of the whole book. It has been thought that Roosevelt made the offer for the The narrative
Stalin, first time at Yalta, behind the Roosevelt, invited by proceeds through who is worried because enemy backs of his advisers; and when endless and agents are at large in the Persian his health was enfeebled, A shy man, he gave up the Sherwood. belloved,
complicated top capital, goes to live in the tedious against his religion, in eating
struggle to achlove
Sherwood's view is that the level discussions about world Russian Embassy' compound. He મ
This illuminating book, pro- meat and since he had bean small-talles "Experience married at 13 and had fathered taught me that silence is part pared mainly from documents politics, and so down to Hop is looked after hand and foot by offer was not casual, but deli- kins's last journey to Moscow Russian secret police, all armed, berate, made after consultation NEW YORK: Among crooks
of the spiritual discipline of a left by Hopkins, provides just in desperate, momentarily His own bodyguard has a ner with Chiang Kai-slick at Calro. ¿
what is needed a pleture of successful, effort to stop the rot vous time. there is
votary of truth." a movement toward
Whatever its final value for An answer anners. In Brooklyn recently
His reverence for truth freed dealings with Russia at the time. in American-Russian affairs.
Stalin expresses himself with humanity, the Teheran meeting has been given to the question two men who held up Mr and well enough to be a little afraid him from religious bigotry and when they were most intimate. most visiting Englishmen ask in Mrs Harry Zack under
is certainly the climax of this the of it,
extraordinary frankness on: tum that taught
even truth
This is not to say that they mistaken impression that they America-why do they
book. After that come victory, herself is not an absolute. were ever satisfactory. By turns
France. Petain represents the disillusionment, the chill winds food in their chemias shops were Jewellers, retired with He gave up his Indian dress "Every case can be seen from cordial and violent, frank and To Paul Henkd,
Roosevelt's portrait new real France, not De Gaulle. Its of disunity. Q New York apologies. Said the ringleader: and arrived in London in Sep- no less than seven points of distrustful, bolsterous, sometimes strokes are restaurant man, fald it was all. "We are very sorry to
without ruling class is rotten to the core. added, have Jember 1087 in A suit nt view, all of which are probably even abusive, they did, never change in the main outlines: the of the deplorable inconvenienced you."
meticulous white fannels, For correct by themselver, but not theless, represent gropings to supreme political artist with the in the reform of the German Germany. He does not believe three months he was infatuated, correct at the same time and inwards mutual understanding by curious foible, of wishing to ap- people. They will rise again insisting of jottings made not long. with the idea of becoming an the same clrcumstances,"
different pear profoundly TORONTO: Two sisters, who English gentleman and spent.
Alppant... steps from the food counter to
temperament and tradition.
15 years unless forcibly prevent before his death. may perhaps the drug counter You gulp Wer married the same day and time and money on
dancing All religions, he saw, were
Churchill is na we know him; ed.
be looked on as a draft of his Your lunch and then hurry who live in the same house, had and music lessons French, different gropings after truth. The story is carried forward forthright, masterful, voluble;
political testament. In it, this over to pick up your stomach bables the same day in the same elocution and good talloring. Prayer. humility, confession from the
The British Empire. He was passage about Imperial Prefer- pills.
controversy centre of much of the comedy. Convenient; but not
hospital. They are Mrs Robert
were the same for all. "I have about the Second Front: Beaver-
in favour of enlarging. it, round encs occurs: Rood,"
Snoodon, aged 25, who had a
not the slightest doubt that brook, leading British propagan-
It is almost surprising to learn Gibraltar, at the expense of baby girl weighing 5 ib. 8 oz.
The British live.by trade. We and Mrs Harry Padlister, aged
prayer is an unfailing means of dist of the project, sends Hop that Stalin can laugh, that he is Franco's Spain.
are probably powerful enough, But after three months some cleansing the heart of passions. kins a closely-reasoned memor a human being, so much have
Churchill says that Russia has it. we want to use that power, 30, hoy weighing 8 1b. 14 oz. thing "rang a bell of alarm in But it must be combined with andum after North Africa is we been conditioned to think of 20 minutes later. Both were
that trade, A clean cleared my ear and I awoke." An inner the utmost humility. married six years ago,
Germans, arguing the "13 men in the Kremlin" as right to warm-water porta. He to seriously injure
fleets, but I do not believe it is to our FCC her volce told him that he was not
confession combined with
that only a. descent through the. If they were 13 sinister wraiths would like to following his own direction and promise never to commit the Dardanelles on the Danube plain, devoid of every emotion save naval and merchant, on all the self-interest to do it.
KODS. from then on ho became sin again when offered before or a landing in Northern France, malignity. serious student and began his dno who has the right to re- will meet strategle needs. lifelong
ceive experiments
it is the purest type of repentance."
teenuse
American habit of gulping food.
Said he: "It is only a
Insoparable
ALARM BELL
Tin can praise NEW YORK: Mrs Dionne Lucas, an English cook and Luc
ribond ono at that, conceded that there is something
No violence. about the despised tin opener, PARIS: Before a bull fight American could take place in Paris the kitchen Mr Lucas has made organisers had to agree that
alving New the bull would neither be killed ceticism.
chief utenait in the
有
big
Yorkers cooking lessons by or ill-treated.
radio and television.
In
In the arena A chance-read book. Salt's Ascetielsm alone Is not And sho will be Conchita Cintron, the Plen- for Vegetarianisma has agreed at last to sell come famous woman matador.
con- enough, The strength won from verted him to a meatless diet self-denial must be put in good
VIGNETTES OF LIFE.
"CRACKERS! CRACKERS? WHO WANTS CRACKERS
"ALWAYS CRACKERS?
"HUMPH! THERE'S STILL A HOUSING
SHORTAGE LOOK. AT THAT THING? JERRY-BUILT... AN'
NOT ENOGH ROOM TO SWING A CAT?”
mco of
of
bitter
• The White House Papers Harry L. Hopkins, by Sherwood, Volume 2 pottiswooda. 25# 506
t
Robert Eyra and радея.
There is nothing | ghostlike about Stalin as Hopkins sees him. He is rough, cynical, often brutally rude, with realism and 'commonsense like o sledge- hammer.
One final Hopkins paper, con
"Why should we deliberately. Stalin comments, dryly that
set about to make a weak Great. the British did not feel that way
These are Britain in the next 100 years, in Curzon's time.
unless we go on the assumption other days, replies Churchill,
Roosevelt warns Stalin pri- that war will be waged no vately that India is a touchy onlinet with Churchill.
--(London Express Service)
more?"
"Pet Peeves"
BY KEMP STABRETT
-GUGLY, GIDGEY GIGUMS/- ISUMS MUMMIES BOOTUL
DOGGIE
*YOU'D THINK FOLKCC WITH BRAINS (THEY SAY). COULD THINK UP A DIET WITH A LITTLE VARIETY; IT'S MONOTONOUS AS SNORDIGH
'COME ON!
OUT! SCRAM?
(TTHEY ALWAYS WANT THEIR. DET
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GOCH? PEOPLE ARE SO DARN *FUSSY... WHATS "A LITTLE "MOD"
ON HICOL
CAR
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ZIWICH THAT KID. WOULD EITHER FEED
ME OR PUT ME
"OHMYGOCII. LISTEN TO
THAT DROOL, WILL YOU?
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