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RUSSIA
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THE TWO IMPERIALISMS
8 an illustration of the
difference
between By WOODROW WYATT, M.P.
Western thought and "practice and Russian thought and practice, there is hardly a better field than that of Imperialism. On the face of it some of the Wea- fern Powers are Imperialist nations. They control vast areas outside Europe and, oven today, there are tor- ritories in these areas which do not know what it is to have an election.
Woodrow Wyatt is a Labour Member of Parliament for the Aston · dívision of Birmingham and was elected in 1945. He is an editor and writer and a member of the staff of the London Left-Wing Weekly and The Now Statesman and Nation. He has a special interest in Far Eastern aflairs and visited India in 1946 on Cabinet Mission na personal assistant of Sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of .the Exchequer.
be shown by Mao new China
Tse-tung's
On the other hand, it is be- coming increasingly clear to those Colonial peoples who have
Well, what's Wicksteed
been
THE other day 1 was rending to my children ""The Talo of Mrs 'Tiggy Winkle." Do you know it? It's about n washerwoman who turned out to be a hedgehog.
up to?
BERNARD WICKSTEED
GOES TO
THE ZOO
I'd barely announced the title when the brightest and most infuriating of my off- spring piped up and said: "How can you have a tale hoga? of a hedgehog when hedge-tails? hoga don't have 'tails?" (Sweet little things, chil- dren, aren't they? It's a miracle some of them sur vive).
selenlife
this lan't true some hedgehog fane, kept one hungry for several days and then put him in a box with an egg.
This hedgehog ignored it com-. is quite an eccentric character pletely. His front teeth aren't and rather likeable when you long enough to drill a hole. In get to understand his problems. the shell na
rais do and' - bis
If he spoke colloquial English. jaws won't open wide enough to and you asked him how he felt, crush anything bigger, than the answer you'd get would be sparrow's 985- "Lousy." That's the skeleton in his cupboard, the tragedy of his life. You see, the poor fellow can't scratch. His prickles get In the way,
Another thing hedgehogs are supposed to do le creep up to sleeping cowa and suck their milk. Scientists doubt this, too, They say his mouth is too small. But hedgehogs do eat adders. If I were a millionaire with They catch hold of the adder's Don't they have nothing to do I'd go round the tail in their teeth and then curl countryside buliding dear to up in a ball. The maddened hedgehog baths filled with DDT. Rep bashes its brains out against the wall of prickles whilo, In- Could you give an answer secret sorrow like this casily side, the bedachog chows away straight away! Very well, then takes to drink. There's a record. at the tail, feeling safe and very let's and out. And the place to in one of the books, at the Zoo do so is the library of the Lon- of a man who tamed a hedgehog
don Zoo, where by making it drunk. With admirable patience
they know me I explained that washer so well by now women don't have tails that I'm begit
to éither, yet that doesn't stop ning
feel telling tales about quite a Fellow.
They sat me desk. down at
you them).
The incident passed over, brought out all but afterwards I began to the books wonder. I was reasonably bedarhogs ever
Naturally a creature, with A
happy.
Other things hedgehogs cat Worms, He poured beer over him as are slugs, cockranches,
the he lay in a ball and under the and bread and milk. On - influence of alcohol he opened whole they don't care much.
up. "On recovering sobriety," about vegetables. vays the book," he remained a pet for the rest of his life.”
Passing from what they cat to what cals them, we come to the And in Paris there's an se- great elpsy mystery. I WIL# Lress called Mile. Mia Parely brought up to bellove and I who has 鹑 hedgehog called expect you wore, *too, that Sostheno which Üves an red gipsles dote on roast hedgehog.
certain of my facts about. written, and left me to sort the wine and Camembert cheese. The story as I had it from the
muiter out. washerwomon, but was tho
the Common You know, child right about "hedge- Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
Untouchables Still Have Same Status
places Harija
upper
Hindus.
The
Harijan problem
was
that the
gipsies She gives him wine, she says, cradle because he's so friendly when rolled the hedgehog in a ball of drunk. Mind you, it isn't neces- 'clay and cooked it in. the ashes. sary to be a drunken hedgehog.
Well, not one of the authors to make friends with a French
of all those books in the Zoo actress.
library had ever seen a gipsy Besides getting tight and cat a hedgehog, end most of friendly with actresses another them doubted the story. thing hedgehogs do is to smero In their sleep. I had one once
**
One of the writers went
10
that hibernated in a pile of old far as to took a hedgehor's hind leaves behind the bicycle shed, log and try it himself. Ho sald and whenever our parties were it was awful-rank and bitter,
expoct from are going slow we took the guests as you'd
caste hedgehog snore. Great fun.
tickles so much.
sects.
BA
to
enced any degree of com:INDIA'S law against un- many
activity that the West West does stand by the ultimate goal touchability which re- forbidden to draw water from out in the garden to hear the animal that lives mainly on in- of freedom, that it proclaims ceived so much publicity a wells used by Even in Indonesia, where the year ago is still only a Dutch have hardly helped, up to clause in the draft Constitu-
the Western cause in Asia, date.
Hodgehogs laugh 100.
Hedgehogs have been around Boys in tcasion has relaxed. The tion. It won't take effect worse in the villages than In the country make them do it by for about 3,000,000 years and, they truggle between
across Judging by their. fossils, according the until January 26, 1950, the big clues,
to drawing a stick gently
hamstrings. I nationalists and the Dutch had birthday of the new Re- Ambedkar. Hesaya-that their
sends don't seem to have changed been long
and bitter; but at last
Harijans are steadily dritting them into shrieks because it much-in that time- It has come to an end. The In-public of India.
to the cities. adopting the
They can't fight, or run fast doncsions and the Dutch meet- B. R. Ambedkar, 66, In- dress and customs of other Another of their party tricke (six miles an hour in top gear), ing at The Hague have before
caved accepted. is to leap off a ten-foot wall, but their prickles have und to it came delegatea from ment which was just struggling them a greater prospect of suc-din's leading untouchable Hindus, and using
Asia.
At for its life against the
roll up in a ball as they fall, and them from being trampled Dulch. cess and agreement than
is impossible they and Minister of Law in the This In its attack on Imperialism, all over Southeast
in most
denth by countless generalions ho says. beause land unhurt on their prickles. the Marxist theory inevitably that conference it was resolved, And now in India, the onslaught have ever had before.
Indian Cabinet, is credited villages,
of heavy-footed animals and Joined Imperialism as one of the respective of local conditions, proceeds against a government
Hedgehogs climb trees. But can that be said of any with writing most of the everyone knows who the Harl-
Oh, from being eaten too often by campaign grapp.ing with
Jans are. co-accused. Instances could be to start an
In villages the un-yes, they do. And walls vast country that has been
with beasts of prey. Constitution. touchables are tion against authority, with the aim problems that faces it as Into the Soviet whirlpool? Only monumental
segregated and clearly cited of the annexation of creating chaos and disorder consequence of the British trans- Finland has maintained any de- [He and Mahatma Gandhi can speak to casie Hindus only ivy on them and drain pipes. A
Western country by n
man at Sydenham found
But now they are dying. In Fower purely
obtain for the to which Communism would be ference of power.
thousands on the roads, because gree of political Independence, elements
that
Even she has lost large tracts of/were leaders of the long at a distance of several yards.in the gutter of his roof of that Wes the hole. It was believed
they haven't learned that their policy would fit in with
Nothing Power
have a per-curl in a ball if they fall they, prickles aren't proof against more territory, and almost all her in campaign against Hindu re- greater security in such
the Soviet Government's
In carrying out of their com- the
cynical than this aspect of the dustry is subordinated to the ligious prejudice that rd centage of posts govern- The material assets of of creating the maximum em- now Russlan Imperialism, dictates of Russian needs. aulted in a clause outlawing ments reserved for them, but are not afraid of heights,
Incidentally, they do have a remain many of the positions the overseas territories of Wes- barrassment everywhere for the Where there was a force that
In spite of all his gifts some untouchability.
fall, It'a attle one about vacant because Powers have
there are not people don't like the hedgehog. frequently Western
Imperialist Dead as a dodo
71-in. Jong. been developed almost entirely cou
with any show of reason, as in
qualified All Indian provinces and enough
men among Gamekçepers don't. They say he democratic principles. That de Malaya, the Communists did so. HE proposition that the West-the major Indian states
the untouchables.
oats pheasants' eggs. To prove by Europeans.
cision, once and for all, exposed Where there was no such A Consequently, Russia was re- the claims that the Communist power, as in Burma or in India, em Powers are imperialistic already have passed similar garded as their champion by parties of Asla stood for the the Communists informed the and that Russia is on the side prohibitions during the past
of their Colonini freedom many sections of the
countries astonished populations that of freedom is as dead as a dodo. year. peoples. It was from Russia against Imperialism.
arnding?
tern
the
Inerce.
tern
that a lend and Inspiration were akpected which would assist the. Colonial peoples
towards free-
all-out
lino
those could be Powers and countries which subscribed
could
labelled
the
be
were in reality only, "slooges" Cynical aspect
of the old Imperialist rulers. Ceylon
In Europe, or in Southeast Asia, Use pattern is the same, Soviet Communism deca the very thing that it accuces other most loudly of doing.
dont from alles rule. But what Hom has happened since 19407 In the the first place, the dec'sion British Empire, generally re- was a deliberate bowing to garded as the most conspicuous Soviet wishes against the wel *example of
Empire building, fare of the peoples concerned. country after country
has In the second place, the various emerged from subject status to uprisings which flowed from the Independence, and the process decision were directed not only continues. In the Russian Em against the administrators of pire country after country has Western Powers, but against descended from Independence to countries which lind only just
ubject alatus, and the process achieved independence. continues.
Annexations
CINCE 1939, the Soviet Govern
ment
in
bus annexed Europa nearly 200,000 square
· miles, containing nearly 20,000,000 people, without any pretence of an excuse that these were backward peoples in- capable of governing them- selves. The Soviet began its modern with
"Then.
thero
were
a slice taken off Czecho- nlovakia. It went on with the annexation of a substantial part of Bessarabla, containing 3,000,- 600 people. the 6,000,000 people of tho Bal- tic States submerged into the Russian vortex. No country on the Russian borders has been spared some sacrifice, either of Its whole Identity, or of a cub- stantial part of its territory,
sucked
thán
their own leaders, who had won Britain, for example, has with independence from the British, deliberation divested herself of
Ambedkar realises that] authority over India, Pakistan,
alone cannot those legislation and Burma. In countries live the best part of solve the problems of his 500 500 000,000 people.
more In the people-any countries that are not yet fully legislation alone has solved self-governing, everyone knows that British promises of Inde the American Negro prob- pendence can be relied upon lem. and everyone can see, that the
made.
and-
Apparently Soviet Russia Preparations for it are being NO COLOUR QUESTION cannot feel easy unless she con bring more and more of the In the countries that fall un- "Problems like this are world under her direct control. d the Russian shadow, every-rooted deep in psychology Should any country that falls one known that the Russian and they take generations. In Burma, the Communists within her toils protest, thero attacked
the new left-wing are purges and blockades, word cannot be relied upon, to wipe out, maybe hun- government that had taken over impossible it is for any country Imperialism is merely a smoke-dreds of years," Ambedkar only three months before from which retains any element of screen designed to cover the and recently. "Racial and the British. In Indonesia, in national pride to put up with most hideous and cynical In-religious prejudices are not August last year, the Com- Russian Imperialism has been perialism-from which there is munists sought to overthrow by shown in Europe by Yugoslavia. no redemption--that the world rational force the Repubilean Govern- Soon, In Asia, It will doubtless has ever seen.
that her talk of anti-
C. V. R. Thompson
HE WILL HYPNOTISE THEM
things, and it would be foolish to imagine that they could be eliminated overnight by the passing of a law. ,:
"But the problem of the Indian untouchable will be easier to solve than the Negro problem in America because the colour question does not arise here. All Indians are coloured, whe- ther they are Brahminis or Harijans." (Note: The term "Harijan," meaning con by Gandhi.)
TO TOP OF THE LEAGUE
N
NEW YORK. He is so sure, he has offered to throughout the world as the "Elect of God," was coined,
baseball work for expenses only. He will
not be paid unless the St Louis ductor, interpreted it. famous for Browns do what they have sel- But Russian Imperialism has always being at the bottom dom done before and end up the not confined itself to actual oc- of the league, is planning to season in Arst, second, or third cupation of the country select-use hypnotism next season place. Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania,
composer, instead of the American A team,
OTORING: Because of re Ambedkar estimated the cord breaking production, Harijan population of India there are to be no more dealers "between 80,000,000 and waiting lista in America for new |PINION: ""The only part of cara, Detroit has promised that $40,000,000."
ed as vletim Poland, Bulgaria, to produce. a winning the bird of peace Amerien all makes of cars except one wlif
clovakia-the attempt. Is streak.
tle them all, whether
ta
has yet seen," said commentator be delivered just as soon as the Depressed over their team's Patrick Barnes, "is the bill." - dealers get their customers Soviet way of life. The nature constant failures, the manage-
they wish it or not, to the
of the new Imperialism is ment of St Louis Browne AVIATION: Wellwood Beal, a
shown clearly by the vociferous called in psychiatrists. show to the Yugoslavian en- deavour to further the Interests
of Yugoslavia as well as those at her Imperial master. Move- ments which once had the ap- pearance, although sponsored in Moscow, of helping the workers! of other lines are now exposed
boss of one of America's
come synthetic now. In r
money.
the other day.
...
PROVINCIAL LAWS
Introduction of provincial laws designed to end dis- ITERATURE: Jean Van crimination against ⠀⠀un- And the mind doctors said the largest aviation firms, promised Evern, authoress of the retouchables has been far players were suffering from ner that er ahead of ritain. It cent best-seller "How to be Hep from successful. Hundreds air-liner if by While, Single," got married of Hindu temples, previous vous tension.
They had lost so often they Washington wou
would pay for it. were always worried and would.
ly out-of-bounds to untouch- MUSIC; Even music is to be UEATEE. Broadway miss the ball,
pro-ables, have been thrown Recently, the management
ducers are planning to try open to untouchables recont asked Dr D.S. Tracey, a leading Chicago specch, scientist Robert out more of their new plays in us mers instruments of Soviet New York hypnotist, it he could Lewis predicted that the com- London before bringing them in ly. But the opening cere- Imperiallem,
holp. Dr. Tracey thought he poser of the future will draw bls New York.
masterpieces instead of writing costs are one-third less in the been guarded by heavy de Renson-production monies in most cases have In Southeast Asia the Com- could
His plans to join the team,
and West End, and munists have tried to pervert
and semibreves. He will do this by fallures are not so disastrous cording to Ambedkar, "most 20 losses from tachments of police, and ac spring training nationalist inulinels. They have during
be composing a sound track. shouted that they are in the hypnotise the players into vort of all the Independence leving in themselves.
Bmed Said Dr Lewis: "Io will or PACK in 1937 an Indians judge untouchables still would Sold by: "Any athlete who chestrate while he composes, and movements. For a, short time
Sherman Minton rather not enter a temple." but now uccumbs to nervous tension this will enable him to use backed F.DR. In the only fight
woman An Harijan many, were deluded,
lopes some of h's nuity.
sounds never
death in the 'East before, produced, he lost to put younger blood beaten to "It I could treat the Browns with rhythms far more intricate into the United States Supreme Punjab because she joined a munists held a conference at their abilities rather than on
the reality has appeared.
them down, "'in 'quavers ·
Wao
The
Harijans
storeys
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four
up. Because they can
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