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Britain's Policy On Austria

EN. STUDY

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NATIVE STATES OF

INDIA

THE PRINCES REFUSE

TO BE ABSORBED WHAT DO THE POLITICIANS

KNOW OF INDIA?

(By Lt. Col. Sir Lionel Haworth)

London, safeguards would be accepted: NHE Princes have rejected the the Government or its - ' India · Bill. In rejecting. It friends,

Irreconcilable Ideas

they have stated that it does not ure these vital interests and

The whole end, the whole aim. mental requisites of the of Congress and political India is,

Windependence of any British con Government tells us in trol; independence to do what they conclave in Parliament: ike with their own country. ** interests" and "funda Swaraj is supposed to mean "Home ntal requisites, please read Rule But Swaraj is a Hindu "his" retura "matters of detail."

word. ... Translated into the Ma- The Government, through its of hommedan tongue it produces ficial spokesmen, has repeatedly quite a different idea. A loose maintained that there was no res translation, but an accurate one, son to believe that the Princes would be, in fact, "Home Ruin," were anything but satisfied with But the Princes depend upon ✅ The B.B.C. have received still on the Bill which was being placed Great Britain and their treaties: other protest. This time it con- before Parliament; it even hinted with the Crown to preserve their cerns the politics of pronunciation, that to suggest the reverse was frontiers intact, to maintala inter- ** In the dew edition of "Broadcast mere malevolence on the part of nat pence in India, and to pre- English" the pronunciations of two evil wishers.

vent external war. How can the two ideas agree?

MARJAREEN

words in common use are changed, Dissatisfaction

They are cinema and margarine. The Princes have now told the Whatever the Indian politician

In both cases the more usual; Government in clear words that may obtain he looks upon as an- though technically Incorrect, pro- they are for from satisfied, ' in instalment with more to follow: a nunciations are recognised, and the fact, their suggestion is that the belief in which our politicians c and g respectively are softened. Government has been guilty of have openly encouraged him. The Margarine manufacturers object. breach of faith. (For "breach of Princes, on the other hand, - des- Margarine is derived, they say, faith" please read "trifing mis mand security and finality. *- from the Greek word "margaron.". understanding")

The politicians one desire la to meaning a pearl, and for 80 years The Government, the Viceroy, absorb the Princes, to destroy- the trade has given it the hard g. and the Secretary of State have them, a fact of which the Princos“

"If we are to say "mariareen shown their complete ignorance of are fully aware. How, then, can why not Marjaret" is their part-the condition of thought in India. they federate on any possible: ing shot.

In this the Government, the Vice- terms? roy, and the Secretary of State

Britain As Umpira have not given us any reason for The politician talks of nations surprise. They have throughout ality, of his own country" The been ignorant of the true condi- Princes know that the only bond of nationality In India: Is British. It was a saying in the days of rule; that there la no own coun Czarist Russia that the man who try in the sen

sense of a knew least what was happening in land or France. There is no one the country, was the Czar of all nationality and there is an the Russias. Nobody dared to tell mense source of disturbance in the

altere, knows less about India than Baldwin for his followers over ap-

him. It is equally true that the difference of religion. Viceroy of India, in certain mat I often wonder whether Mr anyone else in the country, No-ply to India their historie

ents of quarts??WAN

Bright Pupil: "Pinta!"

for

carried on ceaselessly through jout four years of war, the first step to restoration would be the Hong Kong. Wednesday, April 8, 1935. signal for armed intervention.

Austro-Hungarian union and the added impetus to new forms

Your Daily Smile! of irredentiam in Croatia. Slovakia and Transylvania would

Wisdom From the Back Seati constitute too powerful a threat. "What happened, George the itions in India. to the existing order. Nor is it quired, as her husband got out of the At a moment when European conceivable that Germany, whose car to investigate. relationships are engaging the adhesion to the Austrian Pacts "You should have watched out

Puncture, he replied briefly. attention of so many Govern is an essential of success, could" was her helpful remark ments, a visit to London by the consent to the establishment of guidebook warned us there was a fork Austrian Chancellor and his a regime which must be an in- In the road about this point." Foreign Minister is specially superable barrier to that closer The Dalryman's Daughter welcome! England has followed understanding between the Ger- closely Dr. Schuschnigg's efforts man-speaking peoples which will Professor What are the constitu- to carry forward the work of never be completely abandoned. Austrian stabilisation from the Closer co-operation, both political point where it was tragically and economic, between the Cen- broken by the assassination last tral Europeon State is a neces- July of Chancellor Dollfuss sity for peaceful development, The aid of Britain's financial but the

procesa cannot be strength and political prestige hurried, and a false step at this has been extended to Austria atistage must do irreparable harm. she told me." each important stage in her post-This does not mean that there war development as an indepen-are not other matters which can

Ohl. Ohi dent State in the heart of Cen- usefully be discussed between singing in the choir ?"

Choir Boy: "What made you give tral Europe. A desire to express British Ministers and their Aus- gratitude to the British Govern-trian guests. Information on Sunday, and someone asked if the

Ex-Cheir Boy: "I was absent ment for its part in securing the the internal political aftuation of gan was mended." success of the recent Austrian Austria, the policy which Dr. Conversion, and for its further-Schuschnigg intends to pursue ance of the Rome Agreements to towards the Socialista on one preserve Austrian independence hand and the Nazis on the other, and Integrity, provides the avow- and the interpretation he would ed motive for the present official place on the rights implied by

Eng

body dares to tell him.

Pledge of the Moulding India Europe when it was in All Even "She told me that you told her the

The Viceroy fits India Into the condition of historical, evolution

India of to-day. secret I told you not to tell her mould he brings with him, and

Viceroy thinks he knows told her." "Hmm! I told her not to tell you India, having for centuries, for. Th

|ages, been ruled by the autocrat, India,, Has he ever heard an In- "Well, don't tell her that I told you attempts, at any rate in political dian Prince say with regard to a

circles, to adopt the shape given frontier dispute with a neighbour it Where the mould varies, not ing Prince, "If it were not for the up much harm is done, but for the British acting an umpire I should.

Last 15 or 20 years, it has been en- have to fight for my territory 25 shape, and political, India, to its The British in India have, ac- on tirely Liberal or Socialist In He probably has not. But I have.

utter undoing, has acquired some quired the position, of a Geneva in of the form desired, shall we say, working order the position which by Mr. Montagu and Mr. Ramsay the Government is trying to es- MacDonald. De

tablish in Europe while it attempts. This mould la unfortunately, to destroy it in India. It seeks to SPRING BARGAIN SALE visit. The help has been given complete independenced by license without permission, and for which exist in the East, but, out at the same moment to establists Summonses for transferring a quite unsuited to the conditions put an end to war in Europe, and gladly for the British Govern- be of value to those who are now carrying on business without a of it the Government, driven by a the conditions of war in India. ment has placed on record that planning a peace system for all license, were brought against Cheung lengthy list of Liberal Viceroys, The Princes, knowing their the integrity and independence Europe,

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FOR HOME

The agreements made in Rome are designed to secure that object through an undertaking between Austria and her neigh Will

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Shing tong and Leung Yick, two not of course forgetting Lord country, will save us from the money-changers, before Mr.W. Irwin, has produced, this, misbe, disaster into which our leade Schofield at the Central Magistracy gotten scheme of federation. would draw us. But the chie

imposed on Cheung Shing-tong, cles, to anyone who knows the real policy will be the reaction caused while Leung Yick was fined $10, India and the Indian Princes, it is by the fallure of the Government's

Ploading guilty to a charge of ble which

obvious that no formula la possil-considered plans.

ruth include the True Statesmanship displaying an indecent placard in Congress, and the Princes within In the development of Indie, it Cooke Street yesterday afternoon, one fed utlön The few Princes has been inevitable that many men, Chan Ll-Kwong, & Chinese doctor, who sponsored

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till larg of $250, in default three months. There may Mr. N. 8. Brown left Shanghai imprisonment, Imposed on him by still, tion Britain, France and Italy yesterday on board the se. Cathay, Mr. E. I Wynne Jones

should reach a half would be parties with Austria bound for England, after having Joon Magistracy this mor and her neighbouring States served with Messrs. Butterfield and Austria's equality of status swire for 82 years, continuously. thereby assured, and her natural He had resigned in November, 1931; reluctance to be regarded as a Mr. Brown arrived in Chir ward of Europe, is completely 1902, and has held various met. Such being the case there could be no more inappropriate Hankow for seven years, and Inter

tant posts, moment to raise In London the question of a Habsburg restora

becoming Manager Hong ongladdres tion, and Dr. Schuschniggardent

and Shang

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His sery In Hong Kong In-A fine doubtless taken note or the Thint

membership of the General which has been conveyed to him

Committee the Hong Kong on his point That his Governi

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