1941-06-18 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1941..

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

UNREALITIES IN INDIA

The strange contradic- tions always presented by Indian politics were never more apparent than they are to-day. On the one hand the Con- gress Party, still the most powerful political organi- sation in the country, continues to refuse co- operation with the Government and to oppose and boycott the organisation of resistance to tyrannies which its leaders have unsparingly condemned. The All-India Moslem League, second only to the Congress in numbers and its equal in organisation, declines to cooperate with the Government unless they fall in with its scheme of dividing India into "two nations," a Hindu Hin- dustan and а Moslem Pakistan a programme which no student of Indian history, and indeed no Indian patriot, can re- gard without the gravest misgiving. As if this were

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PIDDING AMERICA

OF GERMAN AGENTS

STEP BY STEP

The Fatal Years

sabha Party, which re- presents the conservative Several books have been writ-,caped the illusions that blinded |

ten about those momentous years so many of his contemporaries.

Weak Defences

Hindus of the higher in which Hitler built up his pow- His liberal views were displayed It is easy to see from the con-

vivid

that

should

join

It

to

the

was

this

castes, now comes along The diary of William Dodd in his criticism of the fiscal policy versations described in these pages. who was the United States Am-of the United States Nations how weak were the defences of with an appeal to Hindus bassador between 1933 and the cannot set up hard and fast bar-the civilised world against

It should have been to join the fighting ser-close of 1937, gives a particularly fiers," he said, "and then expect new power.

the vices, not because of a Dodd was a cultivated man,

and illuminating picture.payment of international debts" obyious from the first that

anand in his strong regrets

combine that other nations must of

But deep sense the

had failed

defence of their principles. im-historian, holding liberal and de-President Wilson

do. Even portance of this war to' mocratic views, and his comments persuade his countrymen that the this they could not

he United States and descriptions show

Britain and the United States. India, but because alarm was a man of insight who es- League of Nations. His democra- could not always recognise their tic views were displayed in his common interest. In December, has developed at the mili-

criticisms of the habits and con- 1933, Dodd found from conversa- tary

being and increasingly favour-ventions of diplomacy.

tions with Sir Eric Phipps training

that "The Louts VIX and Victoria Britain was less ready then the acquired by Indians of able to the proposals style and times had passed. The United States to oppose Japaneso the Muslim faith. Re-made by the Indian nations of the world were bank- aggression in the Far East. The difference between France and garded from the political Liberals and Moderates in pt, including our own.

time to cease grand style per-

Britain over Italy was described angle the picture is their recent Conferenceformances.

I urged the in a statement by Armand Berard, gloomy enough to arouse at Bombay, which have necessity of having ambassadors whom Dodd described as an inti

and assistants who knew the his-mate friend of the French Am- serious misgivings. Yet been brought formally tory and traditions of the coun-bassador.

were sent, "France is perturbed, especially it does not reproduce all, before the Viceroy at tries to which they

men who think of their own coun-at England's acceptance of Hit- the facts of the situation. Delhi. Their proposals in- try's interest, not so much about ler's promises as sincere. We can- The wheels of Govern- clude the substitution of a different suit of clothes each not believe he is pacific, but the French people will not go to war. ment turn without inter-non-official Indians for

day."

It is important, when we reflect We made a pact with Italy ruption; the Indian war- the present Executive on the disastrous failure of the year, much as we disliked Musso- itself fini, simply to stop German ag- effort expands daily with Council without any pre- civilised world to protect

from the growing peril in Ger-gression, and we had to promise the support of those sup- judice to the position of many, to note how its diploma-him the annexation of Abyssinia. posed to be the chief allies the Commander-in-Chief; c of the Congress; the the grant of practical Princes and notables of Dominion status in inter-

arrangements observant man.

Germans,

this struck

Hitler Wiles

one

and

sceptical

his orbit.

make his chauffeur stop and tear

last

I hope Mussolini has sense enough to annex a little of the country at, a time, as we did in Morocco. We have urged that upon

the Ital.. ians. They may not observe this

Another incident recorded iff

+

the land are aiding the national and inter-Im- These pages bring out clearly and precipitate trouble." Raj in every possible way. perial affairs to the re- the success of Hitler in drawing

even

Not Taken In It is impossible to resist constructed Government; hostile Germans, into

Berard went on to give Dodd à the conclusion that there and the fixing of a time-Professors and scientists who used is a certain unreality in limit for the attainment at first to come to Dodd to air piece of news. "Laval, our For- their dislike of the Nazi regime eign Minister, wishes to come here the attitudes of the chief of Dominion status after gradually became less hostile and and talk with Hitler My Ambas-

then actual sympathisers. Hit-sador is leaving for Paris to Indian party leaders. the conclusion of peace.lee tried his wiles on Dodd, going night in order to stop this, if pos

Certainly there are in- While these proposals so far on occasion, when sible. We do not think any agree- creasing signs that have encountered much they were driving together, as to ment with Germany can be made." thoughtful elements in opposition in various down incendiary posters against this book has a topical interest. India recognise this, and quarters, it is significant the Jews. Dodd understood him, In May, 1935, when Dodd thought and never fell into the illusion. Hitler was tricking England, with are becoming increasing that the most general from which some of his diploma disastrous consequences, he sald ly critical of the policy Press comment on them is tic colleagues suffered, that he that however earnest and empha- followed by Mr. Gandhi that they offer a fresh was at heart a man of peace who tic Hitler was in his professions had no ambitions that threatened of goodwill he was not taken in and until recently by Mr. opportunity for re Europe. Dodd described him in by them. Hitler had once told. Jinnah. Mr. Gandhi, hav- examining the political March, 1934, as being sincere it him that he "would

that he wanted Sea if he sent propaganda to the the reservation **ing ordered some 3,000 situation. Mr. Jinnah's his talk of peaceful purposes, with German official into the North prominent members of recent statement in the peace on his own terms, and that United States," and to strengthen those terms included the domina-the impression, of his sincerity he his party to defy the law Central Assembly that tion of Europe. He has shrewd had an order forbidding such pro- and insist on being im- the Moslem League would and vivid pictures of Hitler, Goeb-paganda cabled to German prisoned by a reluctant cooperate in a reconstitut- bels and Goering, whom he aptly cials.

"But there are 600 employees. compares with the ruthless buc-

His in the foreign propaganda division Government is more ed Executive, provided his caneers in Roman polities.

account of Goering's hospitality, now active in Berlin, nor was than ever 'a' dictator: yet scheme for the partition-acct in the woods of the National there any let-up in the United it is significant that part ing of British India is Park, with bisons and little wild States in 1934, although perhaps horses, then at the sham mediac- for a time the consuls suspended of the pro-Congress Press, considered after the war, var house he built for his huntlig activity." Dodd left full of gloom, no hope led by "The Hindu," is may make easier some lodge, recalls the extravagances certain that there was becoming increasing temporary understand-by which Potemkin used to amuse unless the Powers of Europe were the Empress. Catherine when tra united and strongly armed to re- ly critical of his policy ing.

velling in Russid,

sist this ruthless Power.

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