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A Vote For Congress

Is A Vote For--What?

INDIA

After Gandhi

By Ralph Izzard

"

New Delbi Fexclusively for `Iindus”—and those fferent ways by the death of Gandhi,

For two weeks after Gandhi's members included in the central are conildering voluntary fiquidation, asiaation time in India stood al-secret-cell of the organisation added, and the Congress Party hopes to most still

in an aside, "by all meras in our gain large numbers of recțults from

́ar ko

newspapers banned.

The banning of the Moslem Na tional Guards and their Moslem rivals, the Khakiars, can be dis missed as a token gesture to orthodox

indus,

The Sikh Hurdle

The Sikhs are a

case for them-

It stood will, that is, for all but power, Including political anaision- sách. the police and C.I.D. officials, andtion," they were buler than at any time

The case of the Ifindu Mahasabha since the abortive Congress Party revolt of August 1942. -

organization is different. This body, week although it also advocates "Hindus By the end of the second

tan for the Hindus," works In the thousands of anti-social elements To understand how Eduard had been arrested, scores of opposito as 'a political party with ' No militant Moslem has dared put Benes must have felt when he tion pary offices sealed up, and a creed and programme, and has been on his uniform and appear in pu

communally biased building up its strength for an optic here since the massacres of last made his speech appropriate to dozen

peat to the ballot box.

September, the ceremony of sweating in a The purge included mighty ma-

for Originally founded in 1921 dozen Communist Ministers in harajah and humble Communist the conservation and purlScation of Gottwald's new Czech Cabinet, Į peasants in Madras Province.

Hinduism, the Mahasabha has res

anti. India now merges as a country cently assumed a markedly it is

back 40 necessary to go

In which effective

parliamentary op: Moslem complexion-in fact, in open selves. They will no longer be al- years.

position

has been crushed, governed polities it became the young Hindus' towed to contest parliamentary elec- It was in 1908 that Benes, by ane political party, and a not chief counter to the Moslem League. tions as a 'hunugeneous racial body, then 24, commenced his struggle wholly popular one at that.

and they are not likely to take kind to free the Czechs and the

ly to this restriction. Slovaks from the iron fist of the Hapsburgs. In those carly years, bis main task was the study of demteracy, and the cultivation of the friendship of the democratic leaders of France. He learned, ton, something of underground tecliniques, though one might be tempted to observe, in the light of the events

of the past fort night, not enough."

It was Benes who approached Masaryk, in the autumn of 1914.

to

unfold the bold plan for

Few people mourn the banning of Along with the Moilem League, Dr. Sikh, Indian Christian, and Anglo- the fanatical, extremist Hindu ganisation, the Rashtriya Swayam | indian bodies at will be clausei Sevak Sangh (National

Volunteer an organisation which discriminates Defence Corps), known

the for purposes of admission on R555 for short.

grounds of birth, religion, or caste. $,000,000 This organisation was strong

numbered and allegedly among its members high officials of Central and Provincial Governments,

Court judges, members High Public Service Commissions, and

Government host of mlaar Central employees.

of

The Fatal Aside

'The avowed aim of the RSSS Czechoslovakia which the out- was the achievement, of "Hindustan break of war had rendered less visionary. It was Benes, also, who performed the leg-work for Masaryk in and out of Prague, always at great personal risk, to any danger always oblivious except that which might co- pardize his dream for a Czecho

ilovakia.

then, who organized and directed

the Czechoslovak National Council in Paris even before there was a Czechoslovakia, and when, after the war, the nation came into being. Masaryk was President and Benes his second in command, and later his succes

|sor.

The Future Ban

At the same time plans are now foot to create a "national home" for the Sikhs by welding together

the five Sikh States of Emu Punjab,

Should this plao materialise, Con- gress may well surmount real difficult hurdle,

very

who

The only bodies now left It is expected that in future all can possibly supply an effective op. such organisations will be debarred position to the Nehru-Patel combine, from taking part in elections of a st the next session of the Central political nature. Religion is no long- Assembly are the Communists and er to be allowed to interfere with the Socialists. politics,

At the present moment the Hindu Mabarabba and the Indian Moslem League, both embarrassed in

Demonstration In

Downing

A

tion

WAR

It also called for the prosecu- and punishment of the tion police officers who ordered, the shooting.

Street

London, Mar. 7.

The latter selll form the

Con-

ress Party Left Wing, although daily capecting expulsion. The Socialists suffer from diaorganisa- dif-top and lack of adequate leader-

ship.

America Hit By Storms

Ice,

The Communist Party is small in numbera but reil lategrated and disciplined. I agents are

firmly planted as shop stewards in

the factories.

CARNIVAL

st forners

| GLAMOIR

[DEVILISH

By Dick Turner

17

"For the more conservative type we have these which, simply make you look like a woman wearing glasses!"?ojan rak

Giants Of The Bar In Silhouette

By Guy Ramsey

When trainer Russell chal-led to the Bar in 1913; that he' lenged the massed peerage of took silk in 1945—and stops, the Jockey Club recently two He has a passion for personal in leaders

both modesty. of the Bar,

I slowly inching forward lodie, but it will be a decade or K.C.a, both with gigantic re- Ho was knighted on the same two before it becomes • formidable putations, crossed swords' in day as his brother Rugh, a threat to the present Government. the courts.

judge in Egypt. He earned the For the moment, riding comfort- ably on a wave of popular sympathy,

Sir Valentine Holmes, repre-fantastic sum of £20,000 1.

the Congress Party could win any senting the Duke of Norfolk, year as a junior and only de

some premier Duke and Earl Marcided to become a K.C. to'give' merely by coloing such slogan as "A vote for Conehal of England; the Earl of himself a rest.”

election

gress is a vote for Gandhi,"

The Dictator?

.

Rosebery, and Lord Willoughby, Roberts (whose****"D" de Broke, held a short dagger stands for Geoffrey. Dorling) Broke, held # short dagger is an extrovert where Holmes Mr. G. D. Roberts falled to is an introvert. He was born In '86: educated at Rugby and How long they can keep that pierce. sympathy is another thing. The re- No greater contrast could be Oxford; got his Blue for Bug- cord of the present Government, conceived than these two emi-ger and was capped for Eng- with its history of political Conant advocates. Holmes fe, to land in 1907 and 1908; got hia... siderations overriding the better the eye, short, apare, complete half-Blue for lawn tennia Judgment of experienced administra ly insignificant. His voice, tors, is poor one,

Chicago)-Mar. 7.

out

of

emasuing

TULZOJBASODI

in

considerable

and

and

for.

emerging from thin lips, is dry and has no carrying timbre.

**

Recorder Of Bristol

He sits immobile as a 'statue, He was called to the Bar, in his gown folded about him like 1912 (a year before his rivál, the furled wings' of a bird, with whom he has been "aspect- The sharp, legal features sugated in a case); took silk in gest insatiable curiousity and 17-eight years before Holmes Ureless tenacity.

joined the upper ranks of the

It was Benes and Masaryk, More than 609 coloured and white people demon- strated outside the Government quarters at Downing Street, Westminster, tonight while a deputation handed in a resolution at the Prime Minister's residence protesting against the Gold Coast "massacre of ex-servicemen.”

meeting in Trafalgar Square, the traditional agita- centre in the heart of The carcer of Czechoslovakia London, had voted the resolu- under the wise and high-prin- tion, which demanded the recall cipled direction of Masaryk and of the Governor of the Gold later Benes seemed, for those Const, Sir Harold Greasy, bo-

Home allaits are rapidly slipping first several years, a testimonial cause, "as the British Govern-

hand while the foreign af to the soundness of the dream ment's representative, he

rain and

fairs story is

is one of a sorry suc responsible for the plagued a great. Park of the cession of blunders. that both of them had dreamed. mainly

United States today, disrupting The partnership between Pandit The Czechs, an industrious pea- massacre."

several areas. travel and utility" services Nehru and Sardar Patel is no com ple thrived under democratic self-

fortable one, although it has been more firmly cemented by the death government and prospered under

A new

mass of cold air

Wa of Gandhi. its freedoms.

Roberts "Khaki"! Roberts, legal hierarchy; served as Re- pushing southeast across the North But Czechoslovakia was a smalt

In course of time Nehru Is likely Central States toward the Ohio val- The immediate summoning ley. An

to be promoted, or relegated, which as he was christened in his corder of Exeter, and is now nation, and lay at Europe's his of a Constituent Assembly for Georgia, ice storm swept

you will, to the position of figure-schooldays, when khaki was a Recorder of Bristol toric crossroads, and, there were the transfer of power to the damage, Snow, freezing rain

Holmes was. a junior Treat, head, while Patel, the hammer of the "new" colour, from the bus of Socialists and the bresker of princes, his complexion does not sit: sury Counsel with the tradi- aspects of its destiny which lay Gold Coast people; the release of sleet pelted the Middle West

likely to emerge as supreme dicta- he alumpe. His wig perches on tional right of a judgeship outside its control.

Ben Tamakloe, General Secre-the East. There came Munich, the Nazi tary of the Ex-Servicemen's

It is Patel's conviction that all widow's peak

the-big-head so that the without the formality of: taking.

and temple silk; Heavy snow was forecast for New des

Roberts WAS senior seizure, and exile.

Throughout Union; the lifting of press con England. Rain covered a wide belt

of political beliefs, Cat fringes show black below the counsel at the Old Bailey.. his long exile Benes worked dili- trol which had been imposed

from Northern Florida to Penn and ererds can be made to rest con-

Periodically he Roberts, who has been twice gently to keep the threads of the by the Governor; and a public sylvania and the Ohio valley. Com- tentedly within the Congress Pany; horsehair. Czech nation and spirit together. inquiry into the incident were bined with sub-freezing temperatures in other words, that after an initial plucks the wig by its topknot married, has three daughters, He succeeded so well that at the also demanded.

this morning, it laid, a blanket of chastising the country will submit to from his head and drops it back against Holmes's two children

benign totalitarian regime.

and one wife.. Roberta lista his slightly askew. Mr. Jullus Silverman, Labour

of over sections war's end the Czech people were Member of Parliament, told Georgie,

So thought both Hitler and Mus-

hobbies as golf, lawn tennis, disrupting travel

solini of their own countries. Bold once more able to resume life as the demonstrators, composed of electric service.

billiards, and bridge Holmes- a unified, democratic nation, with all African races, Indians and

indeed is the man who would follow

gives none. Roberts was..truly Georgia's pench crop in threatened. their example and wittingly Bout Benes as their President. •

English many

sympathisers,-United Press.

the fate that pursues all dictators,

As his adversary develops "Khaki Roberts in World War But, whatever Benes may have that Labour Members would

his case Roberts, his great I, serving with the Devonshires -athlete's body gone a little to and on the Staff and collecting hoped, in the wake of this longer press for an independent civ- and more devastating war fought|ilian inquiry Into the shooting.

dosh, slumps, the hands thrust an_M.C.; to make the world safe for small-Reuter. nations as well as large, was groundless. What might have, been, had the statesmen not clect-

SLAVS SENTENCEŬR ed to halt the eastward drive of

When his turn comes he lum

PRIESTS the Western armies short of

bors to his feet, and a genial Prague, is of no consequence. The

lead, the Q winning. When the Amile. ilke sunlight ppade 3 was returned, completing iron curtain fell along the line of

Belgrade, Mar. 7, · granite | Bart's 6-5 high-low signal, South

moon-visage. Fruity, saved Five priests, accused ·· of-- the westernmost penetration of

There are deceptive plays which |played the A. the Red Army, and it engulfed

would be futile against an inept or Wert, thinking fast, could now see from unction only by obvious manufacturing ammunition Czechoslovakia. Whatever Benes British Honduras and careless declares, but which will that the diamonds would break humanity, the voice walls out in their monastery, were sentenced to prison sentences--ranging and his people sought to do from Guatemala were com-work ilke & chams sgains a fine venly for four tricks. Thess, plus man-to-man good-fellowship.

card-render," They cruse bim do a three marked tricks' in 'hearts and that moment to strengthen their pletely cut off from each job of counting which creates

As the deceptively gulleless from aix months to four years

Benes probably knew it then he air when the thrice-they mislead him into playing

state was academic. other by land, sea and ture in his mind entirely different black aces, would give South cross-examination proceeds, the in the Yugo-Slav zone of the nine tricks, Hut be also aw how he sombre figure scross the aisle Trieste Free Territory on Bun- from the truc facts Consequently, could make South misread this and airs, hal-rises to its feet, day

the so try the diamond finesse 30 the J

of certainly knew it, two and a half weekly Belize-Guatemala hand in a way which could not vor was not in South's hand. He created / makes an almosteinaudible' pro-"They also were accused

democratic

years later, when his acceptance

Honduras Cut Off

Belize, Mar. 7.

Northern

Genial Smile

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE ets, the heavy face gloomily friends,

carelessly trousers They are great person

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"PHE AUTHORITE ON AUTHORITIES

FOOLING A FINE READER

pic.

impassive, the dark eyes half- closed 'behind the tortoiseshell

rime.

sibly succeed, whereas otherwise be the illusion by putting his spads test.

Q of the Communist Cabinet of City shuttle service of would proceed easily and smoothly to on the A. Gottwald was a formality permit-San Salvador's register-his objective. ted through courtesy of a Gotted Taca Airlines was re- wald and a Stalin who could fused landing rights in

afford such benevolence. He

Guatemala.

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must have known, too, that his daya as Czech President were

At the same time, United States H.9 7:5 numbered. They would hardly commercial, latereats became, directly. 65. put him to death that would be laroired for the East, die in Bris GK QJ

tain's dispute with Guatemals, over inexpedient in view of his tre- the rightful ownership of British mendous popularity and interna-Honduras when the closing of the tional prestige. But he would frontler threatened three American be driven out, and humiliated. timber, companies. (4

CAT 20 The

(Dealers Bouth Both sides vulner operations But humiliated? That suggests working in the mahogany forensable).

the companies a low of dignity. It may be that scrom the border lande. Guatemala | Souch

PL 2 NT that achievement, still lies beyond have been or are about to be halted INT

frontier a closing

5 NTM their reach. If dignity, is a trap by the

The only way, the companies can West knew; Bointh Zain, ning, then the Communist Gott get their dim to the sea is scross · bide. stapening wald and his legion of troppers the barder, and through Belisoids except when he has who extracted from a prostrate. No radio-telephone or cable exists | tribution, and

204 (avery (mit. 89, after, he ledetai Benes a public acknowledgment between the two countries.

of their superior force were the Steamshipa kore warasbain

clearance) for: Poires Bun

Went Part

illumines

over the vast

in

currency

The thin tones of the smuggling food and Lord Chief Justice of England, into Italy and the Anglo- Souths now read West, as he was Lord Goddard, intervene. Ro American zone of Trieste..

The court ordered the pro- certain to, as having held fire clubs, berts, no whit disconcerted, one spade and hence seven other beams at the judge; goes back, perty of the monastery, to be cards, When

South followed with takes up the thread of his dis contiscated Associated Press, the heart K, diamond A, heart A course anruffled. and that showing of three hearts

GOVERNOR DEAD made South place - West "with": four" diamonds. So Bouth then, sure the the case Roberts will Hise to sult wouldn't- divide, finessed the make a point, and, as he senses diamond 10. That trick plan three more spades enabled: East to set him two.

„Tomorrow's Probieni

As Holmes, in turn, takes up

it will go against him, dropa

Hartford, Mar. 7. Governor James L McConau

it adroitly before it is half ghy Republican Clovémor: of made. He is nai artist at creat-Connecticut, died today of in ing an effect before he can be testinal Influensa and pleurisy. chocked, at hecusing a man of Formerly President of Wes- error in the same breath as he Jyan University, McConaughy pays him a compliment da his was nationally, known for his good faith.

Nhat work as President of United China Reller Incorporated and civilian Director of Schoole ́and Training for the "clonic pure and dagger Boys"! of the Office In of Strategio Bervices in World

War 11Associated Presss....

No History

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one of those targ have no hí

whose privilegod)á

tered, only when

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