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Indian Crisis

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1946-

Have We Said Goodbye WHY RUSSIA London Letter

To

Production for Prosperity! This Government.campaign is a grand Idea-if everybody knows what it nichng.

Beon we shall be talking about and ho manpower budget" "production per man hour. But

don't make a policy. phrases.

What you want to know is how the polley behind the phrases will affect your home, your larder and your standard of living.

And we start, because we must,

with a crack at the cynickm of Dad and Mum.

All

That?

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT ·

By.

JOHN HOWARTH

prices" and your power chase these foodstuffs.

It is subsidising houses, thus preventing hisch rents from eating up income what should be spent

on food,

leaders se well as responsible in- not cease to demand" the pro-

reached a

moro

stable

power in relation to the goods

they produce

This aggravates Inflation.

You want an example?.

Lm 1020, bricklayer was carn-

CANNOT FORGET

Nuremberg. Sunday..

The voice of the rale Russian General Rudenko, ir, two an a haf tinies the Prosecutor.

Ho was speak- wages of 101A,

Inge about the murder of millions

the Nazis.

to on.

25 many

rose

Sub

The Court- yowned.

A NEW IDEA IN PARTY POLITICS

By Michael Mason

That curious Institution, the affor the film with Mr. S. L. Hof, Boat Race, has begun to raise a

the Netherlands'

representative, Ie soomed delighted with all ho flint your had seon. He pointed out that

"certain amount of intercel. It bua The always amazed

CrOWS.

ib

enter. Success, in the face of the ly: Have we really said goodbye enterprise and a fairer share of The pound in your pocket became / gently stroke his hair. Thon ahol even in these austerity days be in Schleswig noticed among

intensified bastility of the chief rival communities, seems to be

virtually impossible of achieve

meni.

can

The answer is simple Another

now

tional income increases. everybody nation fell into a ghastly slump. will enjoy the increase.

But

sister also.

We

Thirty Millions

Then, with understanding our hearts, we went back to Court.

the

cam-

the

in

find a way out of the deadlock, Prosperity millions of people lack-power is ineffective. If there is all bed of living, and an end to from. its art palaces to its severs. Russian occup there was much labelled their bottles "Mr. Brown's"

It

The cause of mase poverty was that one in ten people was short of the power to purchase food.

So-fruit and sh were being burned while babica sturved.

This Government has decided, policy, that the as a matter of po British people will not go short of purchasing power.

The Government is maintaining a reasonable level of waxes, which the chief source of your are purchasing power or income,

reasecurity

for

unite

by

says

a

not

that

a pam-

tween, what are called. "economic only about out was laying ironed on and on.

economic bricks. At the same time, build-of men, women and children by

ing ringa had got a tight grip on most of the materials that go to build a house, and had forced General's grim figures were so Londoner should get quite excited most of the European countries prices up to four, five and ton big that somehow they did not over, the efforts of two boat crews which had been over run wave way Limes the 1913 lovel

register in our brains. We were from provincial universities about behind the belligerents in the "It is ensuring that when a man advanced the labour

of edurso, many excuses were thankful when the Court rose and which he knows nothing except matter of radar but that some port

Army was

we fed to the Tribunal cafeteria that they regard themselves way of International agreement had They have good reasons for be or a woman ceases to earn waRTS Ing cynical. They. remember the because of unemployment or sick-tired after the exertions of war:

there it is. Before the war we lengths before the. Telecommunica- guides promises made during the ness or old age, he or she will not the Government of that day, be to sip tea and talk sweet nothings. above his own univeredty. But got to be reached about

Presently a little Ruselan have scon excited be deprived of adequate purchas- lieving that the profit incentive 1914 war. They responded once

arguments tions Conference at the end of the would stimulate enterprise on a captain entered. before

among small boys In Bermondsey year. So far the nations had got More Production Ing power; in other words that to

about the respective merits of the on amically together. drive, to which respected Labour the unfortunate and the aged will great acale, removed all controls

We saw him pay is. 6d. for his on raw materials and prices; and

One of Goering's Mercedes What we got was not snack and put down his tray.

arrived

Thomas Wo sorpchow doubt whether dustrialists gayo their support.ducts of the labour of other men

Tilling's They recall that prices wrose, pro-and women, thus throwing them enterprise on a great scale, but Suddenly he plunged his head into

A wear his hands and began to sab, "Oh, there will ever be the same on garage this week This dive-ton bullet-proof monster to about to There can be no anisconception is rocketed and wages slumped out of work, roducing their pur-financial debauchery and

In March, 1919, unemployment chasing power, and causing mam kening of the real Incentive that mother, sweet mother, dear father, thusiasm again, but all the same

inspires men to "united endeavour why did they kill you? Why, why, there has been mention or two take a tour of the country on be hed a million for the first time unemployment.

in in the minds of the British

the press, that the crowe could half at war charities. Wo were in India in history and did not fall below All this is re-distributing the-the incentive of social purpose, why?"

not get the beef steaks they used

to the Ministry of War Cabinet Mission now

fairly.

We saw a raven-haired Russian to get, that the Oxford crew was Transport about it It was picked about the thorny nature of the that figure. until another war pro- nation's income more

is guaranteeing

So, building costs

can loose. girl, interpreter go to him and having to have another boat made up by REM E. from a field park So Dad and Mum ask doubting-market for the output of British sidles rose. Inflation

Holston where task upon which they are about to rided work and wages for all.

lying werp too light to had been worth less and less in terms of Los began to choke with grief, ere they every citizen! that production for

whole They had killed her parents and mago the 1939 boat.

thousands of Tehicles. It to all that?

-WIS It is ensuring that, as the na- what it would buy, The

noticed that it bore the Hamburg We had a chat this week with number plate whereas most of slump can happen. But it need

We did not recover full sanity

Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the Geering's cars have a Berlin plate. not happen think this is true be

redistribution of pur-betoon the wars, although

Astronomer loyal, on the subject It was thought that this car had On the other hand, it is

You may

in-did achieve

the .rome efficiency

of planetaria. Sir Alan Herber! unquestionable that in any failure cause there is obviously work for chasing power alone cannot

has been trying to raise some in- been cannibalised to provide spores terest in them and is, we under- we were reminded that Goering's for Gooring'e other Mercedes but are the beginnings of a world everybody for years ahead-build-crease the nation's income, except hard way-through unemployment

and misery. restoring exports. indirectly.

clothing National Income is not measur The policy of the Government's making furniture and

stand, going to asked a question mother-in-law used to keep a little tragedy. For it is idle to suggesting Houses,

The prosecution was recalling in the House about their absence tobacconist shop near the Atlantic that in the absence of a settlement and footwear, and all the things ed in wages and salary and insur- Production for Prosperity

most of us aro

once benefits. It is measured in paign is to win Industrial strength

from the amenities of London Hotel in Hamburg. I may have the evidence of the German with the political parties British of which

Real national income can through social purpose.

life Troops in this war have been a

een a birthday present from son- goods. rule.

le resumed. The short,

You have got the point? The General Bach-Selowsky, who heard is true bebe Increased only in one way-by

Himmler tell a Conference it had probably, had, móry opportunity in-law Hermann. You may think it machinery of government in the

of ships. Government is underpinning the decided to reduce the Slay race of star gazing than they ever had the output 20,- increasing cause our manpower-about

Conservatives searching about de- 900,000--is no larger

before in the old desert days a wax, of market. It is guaranteeing that by thirty millions. has been steadily

than pre-and shoes and sealing

for

(and the Parlamen- you will be able to buy for the

And they came very near to ac only a pleasure but useful as well. hegun to warm up after a feeble knowledge of the stars was not fary Opposition has only just So the meaning teriorating and the British pro- war, yet we shall have, still 1,600,- cabbages and whind the Pro-home what you produce in

has 000 men and women in the Arm the Services

million Sir Harold told us that the making statt) have hit upon the idea of portion" of

plain, blunt murders. dwindled to near uselessness, toed Forces or producing for the duction for Prosperity campaign factories if you produce it in the complishing it. Thirty

you can factories. And the quite clear. Unless Armed Forces at the end of this

of planetaria complicated fob directly asking the people what The territory of eighty millions exchange your wages for houses alternative to higher output? Not up year. deal with the tremendous

All this.

however, is not the and furniture and food and a trip enough new houses, a falling people laid waste of everything Zolas Workopoly held by the they want. This is such a re- at Jena, now volutionary idea in party politics heaval which seems certain to fol-

standard in times of to the seaside, your purchasing stan

Germany; He where the parties have hitherto of social security. If. For no other reason than that it did low the failure of the mission to whole truth. Even

hopes and of that tremendous dilemmany of the thiners that all of lots of money and few goods and however, production per man hour. was Slav.

There you have the kernel of thee of us getting one over here medicine is good for you. Take services, prices jump. Your money can be raised to maximum, costs

in the near future unless we put it." us now and cannot get

w fall. Money

or "Mr. Black's medicine is now spent on the Russian case as we have been it down on the reparations bill. better. Don't take Brown's," war goes not in goods but in senseless will -how to give freedom to nation For example, before the

subsidies can be, reduced or divert bearing it.

They are so expensive, to make is worth more than the para-

It lo of 400,000,000 prople at war with one in ten people were not getting ly high profitd.

ed to other

There you have the reason why purposes. When this This is inflation.

and 80 few are said that it is not graph we have space for The itself, separate in cultures, re- rough food to keep them phy sically ft. The world was not

If monopolies, by fixing high old country rides through its im- you will find in Russian hearts a worth the while of other firms to idea. is that the electors should ligions and languages. Only one then short of food.

prices, and restricting the output mediate dimculties, there will be hatred of European Fascism (pan-start up manufacture. All the frame the policy of the party of goods, are able to drain away more of everything for everybody. Germanism is merely counted as a same it is a pleasant thought that instead of having it imposed upon chance of success suggests itself,

A final word. These ideas are big part of this canker) that will somewhere in London there might them by party chiefa, most of an unfair proportion of your pir- and even that seerns remote.

forty never die. nnd anguished fooling one day be a place where you them ant to be out of touch with chasing power, their part of the not now. During the last the fact that Lord lies in

een hammered that none but they have been

A Slay will ever could go and study the heaven the bumdrum ife of the ordinary market will remain stable and years. Stafford

Tuerative, hut the whole market out by many famous economists understand.

prospect which the Londoner Pethick-Lawrence, Sir

fat has not gone far. man. So seldom enjoys

It haa.

form taken the of a will become anstable. In time, concerned to find the eure Cripps and Mr. A. V. Alexander

World In Chains unemployment. They have been the whole market will collapse,

Delegates from 17 European phlet

River which

the official party are in a position to speak with the

This, too, is

accepted by very political party

countries' and the Middle East are n

East are ine, the bare facts of the parti authority of the Cabinet behind

Again,

"if work- who are In the State.

We say the Nazis planned world in London now having a look at cular question under discussion, them. The offer, they carry is

drawing en- What is now and exciting subjection to a master race. The our radar, "We found them thb and then leaves a fow pages binnk with the

Drosecution neverthe- that the present Government is Russian full self-government

the week, after a week's practical ax at the end for the elector to state Joying social less restrict output and refuse to trying to put the ideas into prac- European Fascists planned pertence in the air, haring a look his views. These views are then right, if India so wills, to walk

do a fair day's work, they are tice. It is seeking to

without Slavs.

at a radar flim in the oflices of

the

collected and central office, after out of the British Commonwealth

It is stabsidising some food-forcing up the price of labour management, men and; the public The evidenco, much of it inl

documents found

Britishstry of Cin

was portentous. The analysing them, vill frame policy of Nations. Their task is to ob

prefaced accordingly. The sting of this Tommies, is before.

the court in "This Film tain, in a fractions India, the calms to the tune of £300,000,000 and are absorbing too large a in a mighty partnership that can

Secret." It was a year, thus closing the gap be- part of the

In story is the tail. Will the and white.

something called "Eureka central office frame policy accord- consideration of constitutionali

days before "Germany | HA...” and was quite boyond us. remains to be aben. problems that will enable the)

attacked

Russia, Hitler told the But the delegates seemed to enjoy

paid our first visit this transfer of power without a con-

the Whitechapel Art German soldiers to plunder and Some of them had already week to exterminate, and promised that no seen it twlog before. Most of Gallery, where Madame, Gusev, vulsion that will shatter India for

man would be brought to trial,

them wore dressed

elvillan suits the Soviet Ambassador's wife, ws half a century. They arrive at

Simultaneous with the attack, and looked like ordinary business opening an exhibition of Russian a time when the Moslem and

Hitler said: "I have surely the men or civil servants, as Indeed art. In talking to the director wa Hindu communities are more re-

right to remove millions of an moet of them were. Only the wore rised to learn that this.. inferior race solute in their antagonistic policies

who multiply tip Russian and Jugoslay delegates gallery is the best attended gallery

wore. uniform. Wo hud 2 In the past, than ever before.

Overnight, the Mufti has be-pared with the countrywide Arab files."

talk in London after the National come big nows. His portrait, rising of 1936-1939.

Ho ordered in, the first days of

Gallery. there always was a prospect of

10 record is 18,000 in We met at a hospital dance un- garlanded with flowers and bunt-Tha. Mufti became front page the attack, "Shoot anybody who

one ilay. Its founder was Canon securing agreement on equality of

introduced. I learned later that ing decorates the Arab cafes. mwa as the ma behind the dis simply casts an ugly look, and a Stalag 362. Here 80,000 Russian Barnett, vicar of St. Jude's, the Central the friend who had dranged him Although Government censorship turhances as they were officially few days later Keitel commanded: prisoners of war had their skills Whitechapel, who

gut ... representation in

Miliais, Executive between the Moslems away from his books had asked bans his name from local news called.

"Occupying forces must In the autumn of 1937 the situa- such terror at by ile very print washed in so that the Red Army Burge Jones. Watis and Rossetti and the caste Hindus. That has him: "Who are you going to ask papers, it is printed boldly in

would not retake them. Tory

to loan some of their pictures for for the next dance?" and he said: illegal" Arabic pamphlets and tion had become so critical that ence will crush will to resist."

A few more milesto telan

the an East End exhibition in his Then the Court heard about the Blagovahchinas Britain was compelled to declare

Forest, where house. The response was so good any such division of power will slik dress, and I'm going to marry walls. certainly now be scored by the

Muftl'a bolition Cabinet on should not apply to Bovlet burnt, their biggest bgnes crushed gallery and the present building In PO.W the demand of Hitler for by a portable illegal body Congress Party, flushed with the otter-day, One-of-the-nicer because the Arab leaders in PaleOne by ons its members were

1901. It has been going strong population, the electoral victories.' Congress, now things about, being married to a tine, who have now joined together arrested and sent into oxile. But technique of systematic de-into the win Pounder and blown was opened by Lord Rosebery

command found We saw theerasher. It bestow ever since with four or five-ex- demands that every vestige of doctor--to this doctor, at any rate again, in a re-formed Higher Com the Mufti took sanctuary in the in the papers at the 612 Regiment of human sah to a depth of even hibitions a year. It is the only 'British rule shall disappear, with Is that he is observant of the Httle mittes, are demanding his return

that all Russian occupied terel yards" in one Mosque of Omat from oxile.

good....... A military cordon was thrown tory was to be turned into a or without an agreement. They things that matter, and remem-

bers

Who is this mant

around the old city of Jerusalem desort, a reprimand to the German have but one slogan "Quit India."When that dance ended I had

There is a great boom in the Ariny in October, 1941 "Supply And there are British people who promised him my next free even Husseini. During the first world

theatre business. By which wo His

prevent his excape, name is Ha] Amln El

But, disguised as a Moslem of food to elvilians and P.O.W.1

Thon

the Russians gave more mean not only that bad plays con- an umecessary not of documentary evidence, terrifying tinte to play to packed houses. would be prepared to accept this garned a lot about him soon, war ho was an officer in the Turk woman with, a veil covering his lo

bearded face, he fled through humanity," principle, and abandon India to

stories of thousands of wonton keeping better plays out, but that WES her fate without conditions. There! He was a doctor hot because heen Allenby liberated Pales underground tunnels and

and children taken out to sea and there had been a good deal of buy drotvnod, children telling their

and selling the theatro could, of course, be but one result! thought it a profitable career, but?

Hal "Amin, as he is affec-smuggled out of Palestine into because he wanted to be a doctor tine la

mothers, Byrla.

"Hurry, Kummic, d 70. tionately called in the

the Palics and the civil war. The Moslems have and a very good one.

Officially his career had ended Finally, the prosecution pro-shall mier the caly death van

changed recently Declaration apposed the US made it unmistakably clear tha!

Though we are but an still

there were the death intent in finance, wo read this to they would fight rather than sub-doctor, but of course 1 did-six tion for independence.

In 1020 inflamed the Araba loader. months or so after we met.

I shall describe one mean that whereas certain 'gentio Not until 1939, when Britain Russian girls for, Germany. Before we were married we in Jerusalem to riot, but was paragement of the fighting quali agreed we would not have any forced to fly to Translardan for published the White Paper which is the Fuehrer will that in a

down an aromue of guards,pok market, others think the boo ties of many of the Hindu races, children for five years, but three safety; and in his absence he was acceded to certain of the Arab dos hundred years, time 200 million who tried

What should Any | likelyitó. continue. no-one is under any misapprehen months after our marriage contenced to

people shall live tripped

The stop it except shortage of money sion as to what that would me changed my mind. We had a prisonnient.

for all resistance to cease-

bodies up or something better to spotd: it Beirut remained his refuge till Thico hundred such documente tod Then the offos of -Mufti

Count their core,

op? There seems little likelihood Hindus have responded with like housekeeper, my husband had his

caMany a terrible ?"thirës mtiat wither in the near future. In threatenings, while the Pandit, and after a busy hospital the equivalent to Prime Minister of 1941. On

Syria, he fed to Place seemed like a morgue.

Then came the Alme Nehru, deprecating recent riots,

Bagdad, from there to Teheran. We saw the biggest grave of all to all thirty million people. The dramatist

Of thoika nile play presented in Hamp selves in readiness for the con- see Norma Shearer in "Smiling

borison, bolding is pictures Of pardoned Haj Amin and he brought back to be proclaimed the war TER

*100,000 dendë

museume, hospitāla, flicts for which the signal will Through."

What Hej Amin afd in Europe We have four children now, his Eminence, the Grand Mufti of

Then the dereen was fed with of all kinds the Institutions stead because there is no room in come in due time unless the Bri- three girls and a boy-two years, Jerusalem.

palace (eticking our neck out tre place Peasants came to regard him a

Inbveraý betgrgos Arabs and Jows.

of occupied RUPIA tish clear from the country between each of them.

him after Shaw, Maugham and. I never had any patience with a Holy. Man togepsople looked and-British propagande grinning and posturing stapidly days to fall of sandal

The Assos declare that apart from bo-shot in other uses

With KTAVCE,

their exécutioners It took the RAL

rd) bear written a fine play. Either way seems to promise' disas ter. We get out and communal the idea that a doctor's wife has a up to him as a wise and

The Borlin radiote (duf The Alm sctually showed them

Hera ga hatred spreads into the bloodiest Position to keep up. Before cur leader.

children came, the doctor some More Arab riots broke out in of civil wars; we stay, and we times murmured: "Must you.

sians, made the Germans take and the picture "backs

film of":{"elia Mous keep such pictures, and MEN face a second Indian Mutiny. Un whistle in the street? For a Joc 1920 and 1933. But the bloodshed

blog shot Badism, by the Rus-feated los of those years wa "little

The camera plpointa ona area manuscripts on apabi less an answer can be found to tor's wife, it's rathor"

-Minsk Judgo Russia from closed, my ayd

such fabinsk, and the fearos ritmitwan: gmpitipły what appears to be an intractable But now the doctor considers

ragedy of Ireland convention so little that he hops

million.

"have any complaint to The Germans sought to exter make it is that the actors, laid the the Russians as one might riah, on so thick that we had. To Runs Anfielenty Jp catching some of it. this stark fact. Alberton belf-an-hour of this fnderstand their was g

KEIKIO Uf most of the

Sort of the

I Married The

Doctor

I was a nurse. He was M.A., M.B., B.Chr., MRCS., LR.C.P., but he didn't look like it.

A total. purchasing win victory over poverty.

THE HOLY TERROR

By

BARBARA BOARD

been rejected by. Mr. Jinnah and That girl over there in the shot chalked in larze letters on street Arab Higher Committee the order that the Geneva Convention 150,000 were slaughtered and that he decided to build a real

her."

its

Ho reminded me of that dress

The Mufti has hit the headlines

mit to a Hindu Raj. Without dis-

J

to

a

Fuchror's Will e

CAT. WAS

Mummio”

norting

which is entirely mee

had nover intended to mażry a) and led the Arras in their agitat although the Arabs, of Palestino duced Sauckel's illuminating foot

and romen were made to mas think they are selling on

looked on him as their holy-note to two orders demanding a, millon more strong, healthy

race

comp: thom.^?

'fifteen years: im-) mands, did. Haj. Aniin issue or Femmes on guardsmen, plied"

Six months later I changed his gland; and Archbishop of Can--invasion ofs of the allied wore produced by the Rmrslanngg. Thappen when avadman sota out. the meantimo:quír number four

toury combined--fell vacant. and finally totaly and Germany, time Grinding exhorted...students to keep them:) mind, too, after, we had been to Britain, to appear the Moslem where remained for: the25 478% valley to the comtiful Court projector Aickered out mord, allow the 'word eur), bas to have

And what can a wife

say whon

tras

an. Irishman will

La Co £he uject of 'bitter con- naked "women)moving-In 'droves to the finest catheth Ft Chal. Of the West End„U“ MeƐ O'CALY

*•**••• quiet and porceful"

struggle.

Bub the Jews say otherwise. vion) The ễ mwish Resjatanes Movement,

doctor,

problem on what term mutual out of his car in a suburban, road night, after he's had an exhaust. ly satisfactory will the common with a bucket to collect a heap of ing day?

A doctor's day can be mogler. ties agree to work together for the-something good for the garden hausting than any na except his j good of India? Solution of this poser is the task set for the Mis as she's abtting out for a fare wife sumpoots.

evening with her husband, Mrs.

must koop hds-mocmitivity-to-the So-and Bowhont who lolly will motor, to-be a good lows to be smalingerergols pains of others," must keep her maid to phone blist he'sympathy for their heartac "positively dying 7. Or when she's worries, mental ills. He may bo oroneted to turn her husband ont tired, but be must not admit. Île to the prospects of success. of bed in the middle of a nasty ran to himself, till he is homes i

sion. They enter upon it with the good wishes of civilised com- munities all over the world, but good wishes heavy with misgiving

me

Stolen id be hard for him to ro

Other WWE Toggh he had, a good pay humant. Within the TestRed Roses For Me"

pay the bar last thought it does woman man go that masterpiece

always when you biva of anon | West Eng Cantain hour 'it