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THE SINGAPORE CONFERENCE
Marxism And India
By WINDRUSH
munist China -should · "not" :ma) the Hong mag question, acute It requires that Communit China should not try to stir up
Indo-Calna, thou
ference.
There are the
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She replied that she had seve eral goal burgles and six or seven gold rings.”
So
1918,"
Yes, that Guard effect souls completely different.
After the Commmmist victory in with one another, and sometime he only course for realists is to and economile and pallterull dog breed.
London is taking great in-¡ Cynies may say that, this is be- South East Asia (and in this terest in the conference taking cause the only people in London' includes
are these Great Britain' „does. not. necessari place now at Singapore between interested in China
they look th Lavour on French all the British diplomatie. repre- with a commercial stake in
Indo-China). It re sentatives in the Far East, high country. Great Britain his about policy in executive officers and
not £250,000,000 invested in China: qaries that China should service
the. magistrate said: Soccer. The business beuses have no in- cross the interests of Britain's
India: this A Russian magazine called officers.
applies The Foreign Office. has been terest in. gratuitously offending partner,
this which holds this especially to Tib
Theatregoers will have "Voprosy Filosofi (Problems
very guarded in describing the the regime
Great Britain would welcome wide variety of films to choose of Philosophy) has brought purposes of the conference. The investment as a hostage.
But cynics seldom tell more extensive trading relations with from: Life of Lenin' Leain in out an article by a Mr. Vakar agenda has not been published.
than half the truth. In this case Communist China. The stare October, Lenin in
Land:
"The Young attacking the Indian saint and The conference will not make politician Mr. Gandhi. Russia policy. It is on similar lines to they tell even less. It is widely and manner of this trade wil Leningrad
in understood in England à conference recently held
that not be the same as in the past Guard 12- bas never pretended to ad- London of all the British diplo-China sooner or later is bound: Communist state agencies
Middle East. Its be one the meat
prodtable mire Mr. Gandhi's personality mats in the
great powers of take over much of the or ideals But this attack must purpose is to facilitate the ex- the world. A disordered China business formerls done by Brush benefits nebody. The Kuomin-merchant houses and bankes. But
No Myrtle. a passing out conference even with this
tang is utterly discredited. No there is no reason why British parade is not the same as a A do Russia harm in the eyes change of information.
over its goods should not be sold to sergeants' mess smoking party. of the many millions in limited aim can be very useful tears have been shed dia--and in the West-who Before the war it often happened tate, which was felt-to be de- Ching
that the British representatives served if ever a political party The problems of China are not Being a Communist guerila in revere his memory.
is the more im- in the main centres of the East deserved retribution. In present the only ones which will be is the wilds of Luzon is a Huk The article
a life: slight acquaintance circumstances the Communists cussed at the Singapore con- pertarit because of its timing, had a very
are the only possible government feren China, India is the great abstacle dieting policies. At one time a recognise this,
pursued, or advocated, contra-
lems of South East Asia. These to the-spread of Communism in
have been studied by the Office Asia. One of the greatest cbstacles very forceful British ambassador
a British ambassa
of the Commissioner General at to Communism in India is Gand-in China and a
dor in Japan were fighting what
Singapore, which has been active hism
logcally, Grandhism
of amounted to a private war. The marriage between Lais must be the mext target
There seems no reason why in preparing the conference. Singapore conference should-en-
interests of Communist Filipe, eldest son of Mrs.
Communist attacks
able all the main British per the
Political Problems. I will decentralise." M. D. V. Ribeiro and the late The article in "Problems of
Gandial sonalities in the East to under-China and of Great Britain in the
"Not being particularly bright Mr. F. X. V. Ribeiro and Miss Philosophy" attacks Mr.
stand each others' point of view. East should not be harmonised.
is import- Of the problems of South East mentally the judge used cle- Dorothy
Millicent, younger for teaching • non-violence It
But it is hardly likely that the If this is to happen daughter of the late Mr. & says "the essence of Gandhi's conference will not go beyond ant that the Communists should Asia, the political pues are by Mrs. Lo Fuk Teung will non-violence consists in opposing changing information. The not be left in doubt about what far the most Important. For it
ion which
must the British Government consi- is because of the political im
By decree. Soviet athletes havo take place on 12th instant at moral superiority to the power ci
supreme question
Interests.
rest that most of the economic captured 250 new rends, ac- Rosary Church at 3.30 p.m. the sword So in practice Grad- overshadow all others is that orders to be its
been Recently there has
no problems have been create cord hirto Pravda.Potential followed by a reception at bi's theary means the utter distrrelations with the new China to official definition of these, but it Given politcal tranquillity to candidates for the 3952 Olympics
The feeling in London Club de Recreio. No invita-mament of the Indian people in
of the countries of South East
wust take fire honours. tions are being sent, but all the face of the armed imperialist wards Communist China is hesi-is easy to see what relatives and friends are adversary."
tant but by no means unfriendly Great Britain requires that Com- Asia would have a fairly com are being crdered, each one
fortable economic position. They
"I understand that third class have great resources of agricul ickets to Siberia and -hara-kiri cordially invited
wealth, and, relatively. are not over-populated. Java is the xords will be included in their only exception.
equipment, just to remind possi Unhappily, in "Burma, Indoble failures of the consequences China, Indonesia, and in parts of of treason in the People's State. Malaya, there is no peace. Stam, too hovers on the brink of dis- "Mr. and Mrs. Johri Bowley are
the the parents of their child. order, as the army ghts to Caughter born on October 30,"
and Na! Pridites verthrow
Phibul *Songgram
Take any blood tests?
MARRIAGE
LABOUR IN HONG KONG
The annual report of the Commissioner of Labour showed a keen appreciation of present conditions affect ing organised labour in the Colony, as well as future possibilities. As we have suggested before, it would be
So,
Could any argument fly more m the face of fact? It was pre- cisely Mr. Gandhi's technique of ton-violence which liberated In- dia's 400,000,000 people and end- ed British rule in the sub-con- tinent.
As time passes, and the events of the last years can be seen in perspective, it will appear more sharply what an extraordinary thing air. Gandhi achieved
teen beaten.
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they are.
Men Women And Memories
By ATTICUS
macks and
If the Conservative Party get back into power, they will at once ery halt to all further schemes of nationalisation. Where they cannot ide-centralise, they
conhom
Can anything be done by the British *to restore peace? Nothing
In Indonesia.
the
pay, short-hours and the like question of whether non-violence success as Chief of Supplies and Ori had been awarded the Nobelj cenās race. A `IEW
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Today's paradox.
Americans have more, time
the world.
When he began his career the
Since he went to Malta Lord, character, with unusual views on much in Indo-China. In Burma, British Empire in India was un-
beads to physical fitness. I had perhaps a little, and that little
is being done. Aid is being given I see that the American gov shaken. If Indian nationalism had Mountbatten has. I learn.
Government ernment wants a million dollars followed the path of violent re-come an underwater fishing cabees warned of this when I first volt, India and Britain would thusiast. A three-pounder har met him, in the charge room of to the Burmese to the mutual advantage of have come into violent collision. pooned by him near San Remo is a club where he had been play. But there can be no lasting peace before it will let the 11 convict- employers and workers to in a conflict of force, Indian na at present the record catch by ing, and I was therefore a little in Burma until there is a recon-ed Communist leaders out of goal This is what is known as the Queen's Bldg., have a closer liaison with tictalism would have been the on other of the tagship, HMS. startled to see him emetre from ciliation between the Burmese pending an appeal
a cold shower and, still soaking and the Karens. No peace fe and would Liverpool.
prise of freedom. this department, although it weaker combatant
have
zgreement be his By
He has bought half a dozen wet, begin to dress. I proffered a posed by fcree will be lasting has not so far shown itself peculiar technique and tactics, different
harpoon towel, but the doctor waved iten que Dutch and the Re-
seeris near. All coun particularly anxious to inter Gandhi enabled India to become guns, his latest acquisition being aside "Never use one, he republicans seems vere in disputes which do absolutely independent, and at an elastic-powered harpoon with marked.
of South East Asia have the not materially inconvenience the same time cementit 21s lethal range of 10 feet if you He fails of a great fives match tries interested the stability to bad habits: willing to
It floats to be once had against A. Jones stoungest intere
interest in the revival liance on terms of absolute-equa drop itdier water the public.
the Test cricketer. I cannot recall The report is perhaps lity between India and its former the surface
equality,between ruler, Great Britain. India be
1.believe Lord Mountbatten will the exact details, but I am cer of co-operation, on a basis o understandably non-commital gins its new life without having rehung to London carly post year, tain that the doctor win, Indeed, thy hetween Indonesians saving devices and less time than
10 The about the effects of Comm-had to go through wasteful up-| but the recently published sug-it was 35 years before he was Malaya the prime need is the people of any other nation in i
younger tip 20 munist successes in China beaval
gestion that this is due to the vanquished at singles by anyone to bulld
generation a new class, Malays, Windfall upon labour in Hong Kong.
imminent. retirement" of the Deeper Quarrel
Chinese and Indians, who will be Should the Reds unexpected-
Only two days before the an- united by the concept of a new But Mr. Vakar's quarrel with present Fourth Sea Lord, Vice Admiral H. A. Packer, is absurd.
that Lord Boyd- Malay nationality which trans- ly be able to provide good Gensal goes deeper than the
Admiral Packer, a conspicuousnouncement
nation of (Chines Malay for workers in Canton, for is good tactics. instance, there
ef the World Movement for World and Indiaa) must come Inte His article is important because Transport, is likely to become a Peace Prize I was in the office Malay citizens would un-
Commander-in-Chief abroad.
Federal Government the body being if there is not to be a
tragic doubtedly be an exodus from it brings out in a very sharp way the enormous gap between what
The new "Singa- the Colony which would re-is often spoken of as the tradi
sident and to which he proposes lieve our overcrowded con-itional wisdom of the East" and
and to hand his price. The World Port University can play a main ditions. However, 25 the the new wisdom of the German warm humanity into a speech Movement is housed in extremely part in building up this new and nationalismo The founding of new
universi report suggests, this is only philosophers and Russian politi- on the Savings Movement would modest quarters in the Hue Vig-beneficent kind of
profound cians which
Com-daunt many practised orators. Not non, Pans, just behind the Made ties has often had a -up a faint possibility.
so Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, leine where Henri Koch, a Lux-effect on political life. Germany Incidentally, a pointer to
Like all the great religious who this week leads another naembourger who once worked in to the many local people's reactions leaders of the East and of the tional campaign for thrift
London for the BBC, and has transformed probably as the re to the new China can eur-West-air. Gandhi taught that This bluff Yorkshireman, who English wife, acts temporarily sult of the influence of its new
universities, rently be noted at cinemas, (what matters suppremely is the chose, by the way, two squirrels as director-general.
The -£7,000 or so of Lord On the economic side, the main When Mao Tse-tung appears moral and spiritual perfection of us supporters to his coat of arms,
the individual smil"salvation" maintains that are bas only one Boyd.Or's Nobel Prize will be a problems in South East Asia 25. on the screer there is a spontaneous burst of clap-Vakar will
to use in old-fashioned term. Mr. speech at his command. Since hela elcome windfall: up to now seen from London, are to try to American capital-per- have none of this has had to address over a shou- the Movement has suffered a attract
President Truman's ping which reminds one of on with the class war is his sand audiences on the subject of chrome shortage of funds and haps under the ovations given to Chur-only interset. So long as tire right Savings alone there would be much of its surthe so-crdina-fourth point" programme and chill during the war.
class wins, he does not mind what some justification if it were true. tion of all world federal move in Malaya to try to stimulate in- Progress has certainly been happens to the "souls" of those 1 is not, for into the framework men's has been carried on only dustry and to promote
of his appeals he interpolates with the help of voluntary balanced economy. made by the Labour Depart taking part
"Gandhi," he says, "substitutes stream of amusing, impromptu workers. ment with a view to estab-
for the class struggle moral self-comment which gains effect from lishing conciliation machinery perfection of both exploiters and the broad-accent of his native generally, and to bring home exploited, in the spirit of Tols Kalifax to 'trade union leaders "a toy's teaching which was so mer Lord MacKintosh has described Chier, America and West Indies financial
its expenditure in Asia Any sense of responsibility both tilessly mocked by Lenin" Gand- himself as an ordinary sort of Station, earlier this arear, Ad- cannot increase by one fart to their members and the hism, like religion in general, is fellow42 round the chest, 42 miral Sir William Tennant sent measures proposed which need new outlay by London will cer- public which is sadly lacking one of the forms of spiritual round the middle, 96 round the trigate up to Washington to
oppression which lies everywhere golf course, and a bit ada pul show the flag" So many distin tainly be turned down at present Better results on the popular masses, crushed sance sound the home!" This is guished visitors went on board to could have been achieved by perpetual work for Tethers, typical of the man
but, again, pay official calls, he told members had the commissioner been want and -isolation " able, by practical example to It would be foolish to deny that far from correct. He has immense of the Royal Empire Society the the ship's arrival salutes of 184| prove the benefits of media. Mr. Vakar's case, crudely though energy and powers of application; other day, that on the morning of
Eumour tan irrepressible sense of
guns were rod,
The verberations attracted tion; until it can be show element. -Gandhi himself would and a surprisingly wide range of interests, from industrial,or- time and again that some have been the first to recognise salsation, Savings, and Sunday the attention of one very old American lady What are those thing concrete can be gained it.
Schools to art and the collection from this method, dissatis- The determination of the East
of rare pottery, on which he has British doing?" she demanded testily: are they taking Washing, fied workers are going to today is to end the fright written an authoritative work.
ton gain? turn as in the past to the poverty's partly the result Chaos In Arabia ? -
poverty of Asia.
Versatile strike weapon.
jefoan out-of-date social system; Mr. Wilfred Thesiger, the ex• Sir William Tennant tells, mé): It is true that there have mnd of oppression of the masses by part on the nomads been surprisingly few dis- a small parasitic upper class, Com- who is te address the Royal Geo-that during his tour of the Amer- putes in Hong Kong, when munism in one aspect is the quest graphical Society, won the DSO cas he essayed with some appre
considers the general for social justice.
while serving with the patriot heusion, no fearer than 30 speecties narest throughout the Far Social justice is the ideal to be forces in Abyssinia. He spends in Zoreign languages. He address East, and the unsettled at pursued; but in pursuing it, i nine months of each year in the ca audiences; in French, Spanish,
must not be forgotten that there desert, dressing and living like and even Portuguese. This coura mosphere resulting from the are other ideals which are new-in arab, and at lunch the other geous versatility will appeal to civil war, but it should be lected at, peril. A contry may day, when he told me he was Lord Montgomery, paly a few
be was ago
the Stressing enrich itself collectively, and may shortly returning to Arabia, added that there is no guantome equality betwem its citi was envying him his
languages to the modern staff officer. Gandhi's teachings are me of the devaluation troubles. great assets of Asin in this cen
The Field Marshal is himself But he was not so sure about try. History will judge Aria inte explained that the cher swell served by his sealer officers pret Fontainebleau Bis, chief of harshly if it fings them away. currencies he deals
jor-General David - BA. are the Maria Theresa dollar, and Major
chem, spends tinent Russian therapee. How devaluation
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of labour, and the continuing strength of management, to gether with the large market of unskilled and semi-skilled Femployables, have not, en-
couraged lass warfare. improving efficiency. The de- would affect the Maria Theresa have heard him do so and, half Admiral Royer, Dick is probably The re, or stresses that cline in industrial-produc dollar he did not know has for a dozen other stages, Beat- there are trade union leaders tivity of Chinese workers ahead with the money-changers,coch unguist,
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