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INDIA'S PRINCES ARE NOT LAYING THEIR HEADS ON THE BLOCK

"We shall respect the rights, the dignity and honour. of Native Princes as our own." (Queen, Victoria's Proclamation to India. 1858).

When the newly-formed' Con- stiluent Assembly for Indila turned aside from the business before it to declare by resolu- tion that its ultimate objective was a "Rovereign independent republic" it gravely imperilled

fague any successful

to its legitimate work:

obtained.

of

By SIR ALFRED WATSON

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The Princes' Doubts Here it is advisable to go back A Fourth Of Indla a few years in history. The Gov. So accustomed have the ernment of India Act of 1935 Federal English people become to think made provision for and speak of India as a British India in which the States would posscasion that they ignore the

[Join. fact that two-fifths of the land of India and a fourth of its 400,000,000 population British, and never has British.

The

French

That part of the Act never came ints operation for two the .reasons. Although main is not Princes had originally declared

been their willingness to incrge with Possessions

Staten are British India they shrank

froni

governed internally by their any large surrender of their In India

As

But

of

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

1949, 27 KEA BERVICE, INC. X. N. RED. U. 8. PAT OPP.

10-20

"Oh, yes, he's out, but the warden said he could wear hin uniform on terminal leave!"

Can Labour Survive

1947's Storms

If the British Government can

teer a straight course through

he stormy weather of 1947, the f

"BEST DEFENCE"

ship will sail through compara- AGAINST AT-BOMB tively calm waters for the rest of the trip.

camouflage can disguise,

the 1947 will be the Labor Gr

Tory patriotism does n't score high in this country, and while! the Tories hope the Laber Gov-| ernment will skid to disaster on the 1947 slippery palch, their

By GARRY: ALLIGHAN, M.P. French India has been in the

London, Mar. 5.

Sir George Thomson, scien tifik advisor to the United Kingdom delegation, gold to- dar

the beit defenco opninst the atomie bomb is evaucation of large cities before they can be pulverised."

He said: "It will be con- siderable time before lombe gre powerful enough to des troy clica of 100,000 In- habitants. If careful plans were made in peace it might be possible to run the corn- Lr for the time without big ria."—United Pross,

the Staten os separate entities, re- 1 cognising that they contribute something valuable and colourful to the life of Indin. But Pondil beon engaged there has been Nehru, who is in power and la no cause to call for the oblign-rapidly dieplacing Mr. Gandhl AR the leader of Congress thought, tons of paramountcy. The has different ideas. To him the States with one: accord have States are an anachronism that

the cannot survive. placed their rengurens at disposal of the British Govern-

A Concession ment at a time when the Con-

India "The divine right of kings has press party in British was both denying aid and exalt-been buried in the past," he has

recently and, although the lag rebellion. Several of the sembly would not "interfere with In this conception of a Maharajas, have themselves the monarchical system when the people really desired it," which "Rovereign independent repub, fought in various fields. le" was a challenge at once to Consequent upon the decla-was a concession on his carlier the whale State The Moslem League demand for ration that Britain is prepared to attitude that

How separate Government for Mon- concede the independence of in-system must be swept side,

oven this measure of lem Indin, and to the whole of The

dia paramountcy is abandoned. j

Cabinet Mission. when intclerance is to be reconciled wish It appears to be the unalterable the rulers of the Indian Staten, India, put the position bhyand the proclamation of a "sovereign Pandit all misunderstanding. With India, Independent republic" purpose of the Government, Neither of those. sections

has not explained. the show can be suc stage-man- political Indin was represented independent Great Britain would Nehru aged, to fost a heavy Income Tax in the Assembly when the vote no longer be able to discharge since the talks between the States

treaties.

and the Congress party have led was taken.

Therefore parumountey must to an understanding It may be upon this community in such cir

"Now that Indin's right to

assurances have cumstances as to prevent the independence has been acknow. go, and could not be transferred assumed that sential functions of criticism and ledge." wrote the late Edward out the

to an Indian Government with been given as to the future of the

consent of the States. | Stoter. suggestion from being discharged.Thompson, the Princes rights The Princes can negotiate with Under the able leadership cf But for a leakage of information and status remain her outatand the Government of British India the Nawab of Bhopal, ruler some three weeks ago, enabling ing constitutional problem." with their sovereign powers re-the second most important of the of stored in full. For that purpose Mostern States and; a man who the "China Mail" to give war- That was a simplification ing of what was in Government's the issue that events have not they are nasigned 93 seats in the schooled himself in administrat- justified, but it is frue that Constituent Assembly when that ion before succeeding to his

throne. the Princes staggering

proclaimed mind, including

body reaches the stage if the new India in to be one sidering a Constitution for al their willingness to negotiate and standard rate of 25 per cent..

have of India.

made their terms. They nation the willing consent there seems to be little doubt that

have, at the same time, clearly, the project would have been the Indian States must first be

stated that they are not laying their heads on the block. If India sprung as a complete surprise.

were to be a republic, leaving no That, much having been denied,

place for monarchleal institutions lich carry back for centurize, - Singapore Manila the promise of some sort of state ment has now been made, but the

then the States would be outside. San Francisco

danger that still exists is Government will follow it up swiftly with legislation, rushed through Council in the custom- any two sessions, without giving Members or the public time to

their digest a complicated measure or

own Indian rulers, whose post-power over the affairs of

That is the hard fuct of the to give proper consideration to

tion is guaranteed by treaties territories.

case, which no amount of Party Simultaneously the

Paris, Mar. 6. Congress tite proposals. The procedure of

with the British Crown or by party objected to the representa

The future of French posses- ereating the administrative ma

Fanadis (charters) granted by

- Cabinet Ministers from Mr. tion of the States in the Central sins in indin have nothing to Attlee downwards are realiste chinery for collection of direct the same authority.

| Legislature by men who would to with Britain's decision tu enough to recognise the truth "taxmiin, before-Legislative Coun" There are 4562 of these, not be elected by popular volte.

eil's approval is asked or given Indian States scattered like the but be the numinees of the rulers, grant' independence to India

a demand tout the next year, a high official of the ernment' acid test. Only the must not be taken as a studied fragments of a mosale through- This was

acid test. corrimentary is the usefulness out the length and breadth of rulers as a whole should gra: French Colonial Ministry stated Torles hope it will be a prussic- majority representative institution. Agb-today." or authority of that body, but it British India, The

tors penetrated into, The State He did not expect any move remains a curious proceeding are amall, some no more than and there were disturbances that by French Indian to obtain

but the Increased the coulds If the somehoge contradictory of the im- few square miles, Iarger among their pulse to give the people af Hong have more than the area of the all negotiations ceased.

number Frinces. Then came the war, and autonomy.

"France want to remain on Kong a practical and effective minor European countries, Duce again the Indian nation- the friendliest terms with the share in the management of their }

national Government nf Hyderabad, the frat in Im-alist parties have raised objec¡ now own affairs,"

The plea may be portance. In three timex

astions to the States being repre- India," he added. made that -Government is not the large as Ireland, and has

sented in the Assembly by other En than members elected by the

French overscas framework for master of its fate. Report has it annual revenue of over 12 people themselves. But after tains 300 years and during most of traditional instinct for setting ports the Government must that the imposition of Income 000,000. Mysore with - 50,000 in Delhi between the negotiating Tax in Hong Kong has been a aquare miles of territory has committees of the two parties that time has enjoyed full re. Durty before country is at work courage and help British industry

For this reason, the crises, off tu keep down the price c of 7,500,000. 1is stated that a basis for the selec- | presentation in the French Gov-1947 will be national population point of insistence in directives "D

crises Bonds. Overscus mackels cannot Great tion of delegates has been agreed. ernment, the official said. completely unrelated to party and copied awu from. interna from the Secretary of State for Kashmir, larger than the Colonies. We doubt, however. Britain, contains 4,000,000 peother than British India had to small, widely-scattered colonies being of the nation.

ii Constitution-making

French India consists of five tirely concerned with the well-tinal competitors by commodities which Buffer from price- whether Mr. Creech-Jones would le. A hundred and eleven of

I wait for political reform in afl the States are of sufficient size the States, then it would be post-Pondicherry,, Karikal, Chan-is lie survival of the British na

What is a stake during 1947 handicaps. and importance to have separ-pened for years. For us some ordernagere, Mahe and

There are two ways of keeping Yanronin. Nating re, nothing lus down the prices of export gcods: tian in Parliament which would ate representation in the Cham- the mere enlightened rulers have They cover 100 square miles than its survival was polsed on Government subsidies to meet [compel him to admit that Income.ber of Princes.

gone in giving political power to and have a total population of the watershed of destiny during increased production, costs er a Tax was steam-rollered through

their peoples, the States-an-323,000 persons.-Reuter. the Legislative Council of Hong

whole still lag far behind Ladvarice towards democracy that Kong. on orders of the Labour

About the manner in which has been seen in British India. Government and against the con- the States came into existence Indio in its present condition of Esidered opposition of the majority historians have wrangled and unrest cannot wall, for gradual

་ ན of the people of this Colony, will continue to wrangle, but reform. There are doubtless well-meaning their quarrels are of small.cou- people in the United Kingdom, cern today. Since 1868, when lithely ignorant of canditions in the sovereignty of the British Hong

the. Crown over India wan Kong, who vie absence of direct taxation with fished, their position has been pious horror, and see in the settled. All recognise the para clearest evidence of British exercised through the Viceroy. mountcy of the British Crown, ploitation of a colonial people.

Paramountey, as it has been Were one in search of a definition Interpret, means that the

Nothing cro XJVU the management to wage-demands of what constitutes absolute non-| British Government has exélu="

many of this country during, will have to be dealt with The next three years from curageously and ruthlessly. sense, that might well pass muster.sive control of the foreign re-

uote Sir Stafford Cripps-"c:m- The ubjections to Income Taxtations of the States, a general

No obstruction in the output inen crupper" but a strange non- pipeline wit raised in the long debates of 1940 responsibility for their Inter-

Sorlalist combinati:n:

be permitted→→→ Increased whether it is caused by the have a cogency today which was nal peace, the right to decide

output without either Increased stupidity or cupidity of (T)** then consciously and deliberately and a claim to aid should India In disputes about Buccession

manpower or increased prcdun nyers, absenteels or misho. ilon costs. disregarded because of the speci-

OUTPUT This is governed by policies or cbstinate officialdom havior of workers, restrictivo be threatened by foreign'ug- fie purposes of the Tax. It wasgression. The internal adminis

two considerations: the supply of of trade unions. possible to argue, in the expecta-tration of the States is left to

Next the diamond 6 was led materia's and export priorities. It may be necessary for the tion of fairly ready response, that their Indian rulers, subject

from the dummy. East, who in Country is all under war Labor Party to put some of their

conditions In it mattered not who succeeded in only

was playing automatically, giving

certain Foctrinairo Socintiam into cold to advice given

by a

Native

storage, fix the duration of the evading the tax provided the Bri- British Resident, usually # IN "LEARN Bridge, East," you about 20 per cent attention to theential raw caterials. tish community accepted it freely member of the Indian Civil will find this passago; “A final, Rame, put on his Q. When South demands-uch as: houses," "clothi❤| eronomic war, as was necessary the duration of the Hilter in a patriotic spirit, as part of Service. The larger States simple lesson in winning bridge ruled that, the dummy's 10 being, footwear are not being met for their contribution to the war ef- have military forces of their you will never receiver a better came the high diamond. A lead to at all adequately not because the war.

the heart enabled him to use the Government is not tackling the It may be necessary fcr. trada one is this: Hear all the bida diamond 10 to discard his club problems energetically but beunions to declare a moratorium fort. That one slight argument own.

and aco all the cards, the exact 18. He then One finds no reason to grow size of each

cause the raw materials the club Q

pra inn some of the debts that British in its favour today' has neither (tvrical about the States. The i think that leason is only for finess¬, but had his game.

one."

You wouldị

terribly short supply.

Industry meaning nor application. In 1947. smaller have long been overdue ginners. But it can be taken to would have put the 7 on the dia- which places the emphasia cu ex-Justified-if Big Business and its owen, the workers. Added to that is the impact of Neither of these supreme acts of If East had been looking, he the Government's economie policy, sarifice would suffice-or be we are entitled to expect that no

for such grouping as would heart by players of high rank, tation will, he imposed without enable them to pool their re- who every once in awhile fall to the 1, 2 and 8 had already been urts. Britain's trade deficit

mond 6. nlenty high enough since

is political hack men the Tories- sime guarantee of its equitable sources for efficient administra-notice the exact size of some spol played, and would have retained ung against us, but its tempo refuse to co-operate in the

stribution, that it will fall tion. Many of them have pre- get made or wet on which the re As a consequence, contracts

has been reduced substantially tinal his 9 to top the 10,

affcrt by equality of evenly according to capacity to served almost mediasval consult should be reversed,

You think that biay is so bad, toon ports dive which has sacrifice.

forced, the figures 10 per sent. pay. We are also entitled to ditions.

childishly

If the shin goes down during Iceble-minded? beyond those of the best pre-war he 1947 storm It will be be Хой

in what -right." ¦ Yet it

years. That is not enough to save cause Big Business-put profits be- happens among pretty good play Britain's eennemy; exparts have, fore patri-tiem, era too often, Just such things to climb, andther 65 percent... cause the lot of a good many Manpower: Productivity has points in the average session of dropped since war's ent far tho rubber, play,

simple reason that effective man- pwer has declined, During the war the factory population was lepped up to an abnormally high

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been progressively, modified by IP 2 ment of sich funds. Government the extension of popular In 13 will possibly refect those prostitutions. positions, but they must finally Today it is only just to day concede something to public that states like Mysore, and opinion, and in the matter of In- | Baroda, to take only two exam- come Tax they are, treating of ples, are models of good Gov. something upon which public ernment, far less subject to opinion has seldom been so solid communal disturbance than the provinces of British. India Their subjects," are contented and happy under forms of ad ministration" that they undare (stand botter, nças they derive from ancient tradition," "than Vequclancythe.

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so ner

The Dilemma...... The Crisis

On this three-horned “dilomina British Industry is neatly perch ed. From it, the Government has This is the crisis: production, to extract British Industry If must be increased of a time when the

national

to economy is manpower, has reached its peak. survive. That looks like an irrecat- Everything that increlises pro-

lability. More utpat ano Jer Juction

'abor.

Fpect to

costs from inefficient

RAMADIER'S THREAT!

Demands. Of Age the ordinary budget by not

dan balanced when the Assembly, tos Age and its demands hovo

thinned the factories: cf elderly day discussed the French bud workers and natural instincts for Ret. A kerek home life have, sent the married. Christian Pineau, Prejj, women back to their à domwatie, daile of the Finance" Conra lai 0908121 dulioz:

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