1951-01-30 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1951.

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But just now India is an un- easy and unhappy place. Ils people are poor, hungry, clothed, and ill-housed.

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They are "free" of their late foreign "masters," the British, India achieved her full inde- than three pendence inore years ago, in August 1947. But already the fore-shadow of new intruders begins to fall across the mountain wall of her north frontier.

WHAT

'Crippled'

wrong. has gone sadly and so soon?

of the hard fact there is

so

For

по what themselves Chandra

doubt whatever Read famous India

Gay. Here is Sarat Bose, leading political figure in Bengal, on developments:

more

The homes of millions of vil- lage families were huts made of plaited grass and cow dung. At that, they had more living space than the mill-workers of Calcutta and Bombay.

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comes.

•

I could not see how anyone

precious water when at last it falls.

Indeed, something near slar- vation faces huge areas of In- din. She will need to import at least 6,000,000 tons of food grains this year if the famine horrors of Bengal not to be repeated.

1943

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It is India's grim dilemma that while she cannot feed her own sons and daughters if she

Ceylon-KeyTo Asian Defence

By Donald McCormick

The

ROBABLY one of the machinery for co-operation

London

talke most satisfactory de- ' defence. velopments arising paved the way to thin

Ceylon, midway between the from the visit of the Com- Far Enet and the Middle East, monwealth Primo Ministers in ideally situated both geo- strategically to London has been the pro- graphically and gress made in defence talks for the aile of a G.H.Q. for Cormanorrweolith Asiatic nivy between Ceylon's Premier, Command that may be set up. Mr D. S. Senanayake, and It would be premature to rug- Mr Shinwell, Great Rest now that any such Britain's Minister of De 19 contemplatod, but the fact remains that Ceylon would be fence.

obvious choloo If ever it were so planned.

During Work! War Two SEAC'S GHQ was not up

in

move

There is every reason for be- lieving that these talks have at least produced a tacit ac-

1943 for a short knowledgment of the important Colombo in

The provisions of the role which Ceylon must play in period.

1947 Act would make it fairly arry future Commonwealth ́de-

simple matter to choose Ceylon fence system in Asia.

for any future emergency,

The chief object of the talks was to discuss ways and means of implementing the proposals. for co-operation in defence be- tween the two countries as fold down in the United Kingdom- Ceylon deforico, agreement of 1947.

First Choice

These are the factory which make Copion first choice as an extministrative base for a Com- monwealth Asiatte Command:......

1. As as tend, the sea gives This agreement was part and Ceyton a first line of defence parcel of the Aet giving Cry- depth. Secondly, it is suffl- ciently remote from the more lon independence, and tepel- immediate trouble centres of fically stated that the Cryion in Le Malaya, Indo-Chint, Government would grant to Tibet and Korea to prevent

the Government of the United

2. It possover first class nir and tea bagen. It ta on the

Kingdom of Great Britain all ile being overrun and captured П GHQ there could the necessary facilities for de before

function. force

may be mutually agreed."

Naval Bases main router between Suez and the one hand, and These facilities included the Africa on use by the British of the naval the Far East and Australia on base at Trincomalee, the air the other.

3. Bitte already has defence base at Ngombo and the use of

establishments

island: tele-communications.

There is in existence il recon- onable a legislation to it SETY 23

GHQ speedily to be ant up.

the creation nir

Own

The increasing gravity of the international situation affects the Far East has led to

of Ceylon's force. and the famous British war pilot, Air

ice Marshal R. L. Atcherley, commanding the Pakistan Force, was recently called as advisory officer.

on the

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4. Ceylon, with its cosmopoli- tan population of all races and creeds of the Bart, is political- Vice-

ly "neutral" as regards India Dow

Air and

Pakistan. It would for In the reasons be easier to have a GHQ here than in either of

two former countries, at all, living in the great cities relles on importing food in euch

It is expected that the island's the vast bulk she will go bankrupt.

In London it

merelty of India, could save.

High and still rising prices, own forces will shortly be In-

poli- food creased, and it is a reasonable considered at the highest rations, and increasing

the British tical levels that Ceylon has assumption that taxes,

a remarkable political shortages, mounting

treasury, storm

will assist in this development. shown dwindling clouds gathering along her Meanwhile, Brigadier the Earl maturity since the achieved in- frontiers such is tire shadow of Caithness, as military adviser dependence two years ago. This has given her a stability which ed side of the India scene. to the Ceylon Government and

Army Commander, is building is envied by her larger neigh- Ceylon's rapidly growing bours, India and Pakistan, army.

the Nor does

Government save. It is the biggest spender of all. Yet the badly needed houses do not rise.

Near famine

Because the soil self is poor in

crop of farmed), the Indian rice, wheat, or sugar gives the any lowest yield per acre of country in the world. And be- cause the population goes

the rate of increasing (at

ever about 4,000,000. n year!) poorer land is forced into cul- tivation.

poorly MA fertility for

But there is another, sun- nier side. For Indin is a vast [ADRAS has missed four

land, a great people, and still rain-bringing monsoons

a potent Idea-the mightiest in In succession. with disastrous Southern Asia. I want to tell effect on 4,000,000 acres of her rice flelds, but has erected few you this too.

jo catch the

new reservoirs

on

-war,

It was the challenge of these facts which, during the spurred half a dozen of India's leoding industrialists to devise the Bombay Fifteen-Year Plan.

OVER

All poorer

prom VER this period they

posed to double India's in-

head, come per

double her farm production, treble total national income, quadruple her industrial put.

her

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One part of which requires

that mented s that "the two will

establish

First Steps

the 1947 Ad to be imple- Equally, this maturity makes which states for excellent relations between Governments Ceylon and Great Britain, the resust of which, is that Artt administrative

steps towards a defensive pat- tom within the Commonwealth in Asia may well be taken by these two countries,

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Premier Senanayake is a very good friend of the British, and he is acutely aware of the need for a closing of the ranks angelaat Comunimiam in the For excellent East. Ho made an wartime Minister of Articul- campaigns organising which enabled Ceylon to pro- vide 90 percent of the world's Tubber

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A diplomat, be tempers AN American is spending beauties-girls who just taled to publican Committee of 100 in i

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as an the future with serenity. She casinos last year, according to denounce Red China speeches.

state tax returns.

aggressor, Says a leader in the has a tough task economically, "UNO risks for she is not self-supporting. FATHER DIVINE threatens World-Telegram:

Future prosperity depends on Iawbreakers out of its own destruction by failing to

main exportsbes, her three rubber and coconuts. is reprinting the speeches in his housewives who have coloured

is paying the maids or cooks. The housewives FATTIES ANONYMOUS held paper. And ho New York Times, Washington must report servants' carnings Fost, and Boston Herald to re- under a new social security Inw. what they called their first print them, too, as full-page But Father Divine forbids his birthday party recently. They followers to have anything to do want to enlist 35,000,000 over- advertisements.

Americans Against weight

h a diet Over each appears the words: with social security.

Churchill's our religion, he says. Go to gaoli crusade. "In England only voice rises clear and familiar." or die, before accepting it.

Why is he doing It Says Mr Brewer: "By some strange over- ATOMIC CLOCK8 are were hardly down for discussion at a meet-

"India has produced a malm- ed and crippled baby......50 regulated and regimented that she is unable to throw up her Today arms or kick her legs. repressive measures are stringent than the British ever

A bold and inspiring project, dared to take..... And corrup- which gripped the imagination of the New tion, graft, and nepotism are of many a young man then in But what happened? Alas! "The The poor Indian and his family

on

the increase in every pro- India. vince.

In his

bitter.

disillusioned book. "Betrayal iD India," friend, D. F. writes

an old Karaka, once a brillant fighter for independence:-

He is Basil Brewer, proprietor Bedford (Massa- chusetts) Standard-Times.

He

to nrake

sight these specia. We sent ing of 500 electronic and radio

to

texts.

Pandit Malaviya:

have become poorer. people are worse off in every

Prices of chicken, beet, mut- Brilish way than during the

is tom fish,

polators, NEUS, rule. The country's wealth

hands, milk, sugar, butter in Calcut- concentrated in a few

markels Inst Christmas and 320 million people live at ta

what were more than twice bare subsistence level,"

was paid in the war, and five times the rates of 1930-40.

Indeed, many a farmily in reported in

Britain

complete scientists. and got Mr Churchill not only this teeming steaming city can afford neither meal, fish norted Britain,

DEFENCE but us, in World

Secretary George 01 its butter, must

hunger War II. His speeches

Is the are too Marshall, asked what with lentils.

vital and important for us to most dangerous spot in the world miss."

today to United States security, The two speeches: His 76th replied: "The cocktail lounge of around in a grand new Buick. gentle art of tax evasion. Regu- birthday message to the Com- Washington's Mayflower Hotel." TWO VACANCIES are to be от Cadiloc

other larly, one rupee in every two mons during the Foreim Affairs. Packard, American model, patriotically which the tax-collector takes is debate on November 30, in which

swallowed up in national de- he accused Russia of advancing filled on Congress's Un-American More Committee. boycotting British cars."

of Communism Activitica the creed

every direction until than 100 congressmen have ap- some solid obstacle was reached. plied....

And his Commons speech on December 14, in which he called SNOW 32 Inches deep fell

"A new kind of Indian has kheddar-cind, emerged the Gandhi-capped black market. Taxes have soared--anti with

new heights cering patriot

... driving them,

The monster

fence.

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the

This does not mean for the protection of the sub-continent against the menace beyond the been getting Himalayas. It is he bill INDIA has not

on top of her huge prob- glaring across the frontier lem. It has been gotting on Pakistan - lop of Indlu.

What is this Poverty.

to

for

at

for "a measure

in Korea.

of censorship" on Pittsburg, but vanished the moment it touched the pavement NEW NAME: General Elsen- in front of the Union National (seven hoWIT has renamed his acro- Bank. The bank had laid hot- Inflation of currency monstert

times over the pre-war issue)plane the Columbine. It is the water pipes in the concrete. The Because she is so poor, India, has further helped to condeina State Dower of Colorado. And time will come, the bank pre- before the war, offered the to misery, almost to extinction, Colorado is the home State of dicts, when cities will never be mass of her

fiving those

BOP

people u

hard-working

middle-Mrs Eisenhower.

CANNOT EXPRESS

THEN I'M SURE

MY FEELINGS

IN WORDs!

YOU WILL EXPRESA THEM: (15 FIGURES

crippled by snow.

Lump sum

act.'

Irrigation is one of the chief problems of Ceylon, and it is being tackled wkh vigour. water The remains of ancient systems are being explored in jungles and beneath ancient temples.

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