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BUT HEAVEN DIDN'T COME

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By Robert Blake

HE British rule in India has vanished for over. Some day

perhaps another Gibbon or Macaulay will tell the story of that extraordinary empire in which for a century and a half a mere handful of Englishmen the foam, na Curzon once described them, upon n dark and unfathomable occan-dominated and paciffed an entire sub- continent. Meanwhile, it is worth looking for a moment at the regime which has succeeded to the Pax Britannica.

There is, ndmittedly, not much Pax about it. The sub-continent is now divided into two nations which survey each other with fear and hatred. Bul Pak'tan is relatively small and weak compared with Indin, and it is the problem

of India which is incc urgent and alarming to the rest of the world.

There politles largely turn upon the character of a single man, Pandit Nehru, who behind the forms of democracy governs India today with a rule ay absolute as that of

of any British Viceroy or Mogul Ecribed, usually in a manner which His peiserality has been variously

It is can be predicted by a glance at the political background of the author. therefore all the more surprising and significant to read this highly unflattering

For Mr Karaka, little portrait by Mr D. F. Karaka.

#westernised Indian journalist, the frat Indian to be President of the Oxford Union, belongs to the very class which is normally mest friendly to Nehru and all that he stands for.

What then, is his charge against Nehru7

Hindus rule

It is partly the eternal ery of the disifusioned Idealist, in this case of thore who saw in the eclipse of British rule the crrivel of a New Heaven and a New Earth. Miturily nothing of the sort has happened.

MA s revolutions are in the last analysis merely the pld and violent sub- stitution of one governing class for another. That mysterious abstraction, the Indien "people no more governs itself today then it did when a British Viceroy sat in Delhi.

men.

The only change has been the replacement of a governing claca consiting of incorruptible, efficient, if unimaginative British civil servants by cne that con- sists of wealthy westernised High caste Hindu lawyers, intellectuals, and business

But Mr Karaka is not merely which so hastily ended British quarrelling with the course of rule and allowed the appalling events. He is concerned with a massacres of 1947 - now con- forgotten by the close personal analysis of Nehru. veniently

"There is," he writes, "a enthusiasts of the Left. But at

In his lifetime, and, as its first Nehru's

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put his

effect."

consolation: in India like least we have this The tru me, whom Nehrit has let down." that we no longer need bother Again: "The tragedy of Nehru about Indian Internal politics.

Much more has been that India got liberated

alarming attitude to foreign Prime Minister, it fell upon him affairs. The more realistic mem- own words into bers of the Left in England have always defended the British For, if Mr Karaka is right, scuttle from India, not on the real trouble with Nehru is absurd ground that it did

Idea how to slightest good to the Indian that he has no

the more translate the rhetorical phrases people but with

that it of opposition into action now speculativo argument that he is in office, no conception prevented the Indian Intelli- what to do with the power that gentsia from becoming Com- has fallen into his hands.

The Congress Party becomes steadily more corrupt, the con- dition of the Indian

becomes

messės

the the

munist. But is the present state

of affairs really any better?

Anti-White

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ANY people, both

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London Express Berrion

OF

GENERATION

WARRIORS

By Lt.-Gen. H.G. Martin

FROM NOW THE

ON SIMPLE LIFE

From Ronald Singleton

New York.

ANN Sheridan, the flm

actress

who found Hollywood too expensive, has moved to Mexico City. "One throws away good m.ney in Hollywood, and it is more than I can do to. keep my head above water,” ' she said over lunch in the garden of a little Mexico City restaurant.

Any so the - red-haired actress who had one of Hollywood's biggest salaries round about 1989 as the "comph" girl (sex appeal plus comedy) la going to soll her property, prune her staff and live in simple fashion.

"My house in Encino, California, for instance," Ann said, "It costs £1,000 monthly just for upkeep. That is really ridiculous and It's like everything else in Hollywood. I wouldn't know » how much I make a year but I can barely keep go- ing," she added loudly as the parrots in the restaurant garden trilled.

Selling Out

now the 30-year-old

She had already planned to put her 34 acre estate at Holly- wood up for sale. She did not know what she would get for it but all she wanted was A chraper home where she would. not worry about servants. Her opinion behind him and so to staff of seven would have to oradicate the Min, Yuen-those be cut down, perhaps to one, secret enemics Do much more perhaps dispensed with alto- pumorous and intangible than gether, Since the time of which Major army which they nourish in the

the semi-professional Communist. And ed how about 6,000 mainly in April, 1951, I saw Liew's and marvel at those two boons,

complete with paludrin and Chinese terrorists in the portrait,

anti-typhus tick Campbelt writes, much has hap- Jungle. Cut off the Min Yuen, actress, as attractive as ever! drossing, which enable Malayan Races' Liberation beard, displayed in the ro

the pened in Malayo. Col. Arthur and the Liberation Army would live as simple a life as she did. modern soldier to keep smiling Army have succeeded, year rogues" gallery in the Com- in conditions that would have Young, Commissioner of the City wither in a matter of days,

In her naive, Texas before her after year, in surviving the bined Operation room.

been death previous genern- Police, has roorganised the proud of his Kashmiri

tions. As one who has indulged Federation's police,

Major Campbell's book shows sister secretly entered her name nitack of the vastly superior

Maj-Gen. what magnificent It was not til June, 1952, that in both And his title of "Pandit," educat- He has refused to

material the in a bathing beauty exhibition malarla and scrub- E. B. de Fonblanque at Harrow and Cambridge), plans for the defence of Sucz. forces of law and order de the duel ended with Liew's death typhus or "tick fever" as we tablished

has a process of trial and error in the which started her film career. Home Guard, Malayan war has forged. Small remains on a pinnacle for above He has steadily encouraged the ployed against them. The and the obliteration of his 4th used to call it have a lively 250,000 strong and of all races, wonder that, with a spirit such

"Lobster? A little avocado?" these mundane

problems, intransigent nationalism of the answer is given in a most Independent Company, better sense of what these twe blessings to guard their own villages and us that displayed by these men, and steak, please," she said.

asked a walter. "No. just eggs wropped in a fleecy cloud of Middle East, although this sup- welcome book which has known as the

mean. Kajang Gang. cican abstrac- port runa high-sounding noble

against his

so to release both police and local succes is, at long last, on When, sucA after, the Suffolk attitude to Moslem senti- just been published.* normal

military for other duties: Gen. Regiment.completed its 311⁄2 years' ment for example in Kustimir.

tour in Malaya, it had estab-

Templer's polley of trusting the Chinese with arms has paid. lished an anti-bandit record still unsurpassed.

Nehru is no doubt personally gradually deteriorates, the prob- lem of India's role in inter- anti-Communist, but he is even ever more anti-white and anti-British and his polley everywhere tenda

descent Communism.

national affairs more acute.

But Nehru (high caste Hindu, to weaken the front against

tions.

On and on and on

Mr Karaka, rather unkindly perhaps, quotes a few specimens

some-

join in

He regards himself as the

+

wide

more than 19 or 20 years terus. In the moments

Captives? Aid

such a scale.

asserts that she is aiming to

Reason for Hope monthly to an old couple on my

"You see I don't really lice the Hollywood style of lifa,” she commented. "Why, I paid £142

she said, "It got that dared not

be late for dinner and even the Idlo ence, the borro I couldn't cat what I wanted was driving homa

ran out and I had to walle

long way home;

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Ho

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for

It tells us for the first time defender of the Asiatic races the story of the work done against "Imperiallam," but he in the Malayan jungle by

THE reader will meet also that Gen. Templer has thus won appears to be quite happy that that "bravest, most patient of Nehru's recent utterances.

Major Campbell deals with a

With a chetud other members of the terrorists, but there are still some following, as they do, upon

picturesque

Lee the first round' against the T is achievements such as this, assortment "Perhaps there never has been China should have fallen info

of n clean slate, even when people the orbit of the most dangerous, and most stoical of men, the

episodes. The reader will learn S.E.P. or "surrendered Com- British soldier." going inperialist power of all,

Of the what it means to move through personnel," and will thus come no doubt, fortune has favoured before the Templer epoch, which enemy rounds to go. In some respects, so much bungilary and frustration imagined that there was

soldiers described, about Jungle swamp at night, and, what to understand how Gen. Templer hum. Events in Southeast Asia encourage the hope that victory to be a clean slate. Nevertheless, munist Russia. there could be more or less 3 All. ...but war

two out of three were a game of blindman's s-buff our has since found it possible to gave him a breathing space; Mao clean slate. Maybe

be I hove

Nor does he confine himself to National Service lads no troops, acting on the most meagre form these ex-terrorist Chinese was busy in Korea; the French that vietos na history teaches That Ended It been affected by recent events,

of cluca. must play with the

that victory against wholly un- the into "Special

a have felt Asia. He recently declared that but more and more

Operpilonal were still stemming the flood in scrupulous guerillas is one of the tenis of Volunteer Force" of groat Indo-China. Initially, too, high most difficult of military tasks." spoke sharp's to my man -that-il is wrong to destroy some- White treatment of Africans was old.

extreme peril that punctuate this promise. scandalous," and that India

rubber-and-in-prices-enabled thing that

most monotonous form of warfare,

checked. would "nght the fight for

This story cannot fail, to in 'keep the car him to pay the Malagan defence it is thing and doing

the enemy nearly

From the first moment of sur- bl. He made good use of his crease apprehensions test events sucked and always

didn't speak ready who is Up and up and up, and on and equality everywhere" by all

Enemy Recruiting

to take the first shot.

the former time.

outside Malaya should make such three weeks. 'We are mot dames- on and on! Really, as Mr means short of war, he prudent-

Often he is gone in the winking der, it appears,

skill and sacrifices in vain. Sup-th the savanta said, "we Karaka says, the late Ramsay ly added. What does

of an eye, leaving behind him terrorist evinces one overmaster- ing desire, to lead the "running MacDonald could hardly do imagine would happen

pose Communist China sought works for the love of 1,7*** their nothing but the endless jungle dogs," his new friends, to des- why Indian minorities in Natal and THE reason

and the whole business to be

compensation for at least partial Communist enemies have begun again.

fallure in Koren troy. his former comrades,.

"I was furious. Perhaps that by trying to ended Hollywood 1e for me However.

domestic elsewhere if the White settlers India's

ensure were to vanish and the African remained so small an active

total success in Indo- offales ore HOW India's own.

masses to be given a free hand?force is plain enough. With

The reader will learn how well may be, as Gen Templer holds,

that these ex-terrorists are INAL success is dependent in China; and nothing but the huge expenses, expensive house, concern.

expensive servants," our soldiers come to know their "A sophisticated rhetoricion

a number of factors, some be meffectual barrier of Siam stood finiexico is free of all this and intoxicated by the exuberance of the supplies of food, arms business in the jungle; and he "disillusioned with Communism,"

the burdens of the world just his own verbosity." So Disraeli and medical comforts avail, will quieldy realise that they or is it perhaps that they regard and Gen. Templer's miral. If, Communists in Malayal

internally, he can achieve his

drop away here," able to them, Chang, Peng, can shoot-perhaps not as well the problem as a shople matter to weld the Federation's However, sufficient unto the the Communist leader, and Army before them, but much of a different sort are Krabon, the, Chinese and 000,000 Indians into ever happens in the future, it is Mexico City which she says she And now Ann Sheridan has as their fathers in the Regular of "kill or be killed." Allies 2,600,000 Malays,

2,000,000 day is the good thereof. What-teken a smart apartment in his Central Executive Com- better than the terrorist and 16-year-old Sakai aboriginal, and one Malayan nation, he will have heartening to leam from this mittee could hardly maintain that they know the jungle drill. Silvo and Brasso, the two Dyak created a united society to which book that the British soldier has

will run herself. a larger force in the jungle.

trackers. These three share the he can prudently devolve a not lost his capoolly for doing So they have been content to

honours with the British soldier. increasing measure of self the apparently, impossible him-

have laboured in vain.

can he hope to mobilise public others in doing it.

better.

Nothing can excuse the

dis-

graceful policy of Mr. Attlee

*Nehru; The Lotus Eater Frors

Kashmir, by D. F. Karaka (Ver- schovie, 10%).

Nehru ta tho

sold of his great rival. No doubt an unfair description of Mr Gladstone. But Nehru?

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she said.

"Who says I'm running away from United States tax paying?" she asked. "I'll be in Hollywood

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in replacements from the

Min Yuen or secret organi. WHEN the reader has plodded sation of Communist after Major Campbell and his sympathisers along the men on one of their prolonged. jungle's rim.

expeditions he will begin to realise what a weariness of the

Beyond that rim there lies fosh such an experience can be. the all-pervading jungle it- t is then that he will appreciate self, and almost limitless all that the advent of the hell- sanctuary that can never be copter has meant." wholly denied to evil-doers.

Ar

Major Campbell describes the S-61 helicopters Gen. Templer said A.F.'s little

that came to pick up his casual- recently: "Food denled to ties or to bring him supplies. He the Communist terrorists is had no chance to

meet the

ful operations." It is because the Liberation Army is now so short of food that it is at last having difficulty in maintaining its strength..

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After the "atomie device”: w2E explodet on May 19 at Las Vegas, radioactivity was so heavy m their city that all motor ins pesosiniam deze was stepped and everyone on the streets was aslood to take cover.

the basis of all our success Navy's S-55 10-man helicopters, lems and a whole crop of Cattic are also falling sick ger counter, for a peaceful But residents of St George, In

for these-10 in all-came afler

curious and unlooked-for with a simitar disease.

day's uralum prospecting with the State of Utah, a hundred · he had gone. It is these big effects, according to re- helicopters, for which we must

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in good word to say for the Malaya today.

atomic bomb, insisting that it But today prospectors say Take New Mexico, once has ruined their crop, At this present stage, when the regarded as the back door

that New Mexico is being so They point out that three re bombarded with radiation from 'Bearded Wonder Amay have withdrawn deep into of the United States, add cent atonile tests were followed the Las Vegas: atomic testing the jungle, there to grow their now the New World's in onch case, 40 to 00 hours ground that a Geiger counter own food with the help of the atomic.doorstep.

later, by a totally unseasonable goes nearly frantic. and heavy frost, Tempera- MAJOR CAMPBELL,, the aboriginal tribes and to bide

degrees and Residents sitting on that fures fell to 24 of "Jungle their time, these 5-558 enable Green, takes as his theme our troops to reach in 15 minutes doorstep don't altogether the entire apricot and peach urbadum posters, ervoo

polnis that we three days the long drawn-out duel distant for Campbell and his men appreciate the change. In crop and half the apple harvest after slomie lods, Co, radio-

activity count Jumps so high a Golge: instrunket that way as not to dighters or Alaska between the Suffolk Regi- on foot. Thus they make possible ono part of the State they

tinguish between what : going people," said Chief of Police all sorts of operations deep in are suffering from periodic ment and particularly, his

on (atomlently speaking) in the. Lamb, adding, in one of the most own company of it--and that the heart of the jungle sudden bouts of light-headedness or ruida maybe the establishment

ale ond whof'a in the uranium classic understatements of all times: "77o, just told then they peculiarly brutal terrorist of so-called "forts" or standing nausen, which they blame

The U.S. Weather Bureau in

might have to wash their clothing leader, Liew Kon Kim, nick patrols designed to extend our on the top secret tests being

d'amissed' com». named "The Bearded Protection to the jungle tribes, conducted 800 miles away plaints with an alry: "Pure operations until the atmosphere.

Albuquerque

They Just have to abandon if they remained on the streets, and so to deprive the terrorista Wonder." When I visited the of their forced labour as tillers

In Novada.

coincidence. We had yery, un- quiciens downs, spole

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On his wanderlaw; with 'Major activity. Which at Ames la Avá poctor Time was when he dangerous concentrationsN of extent that they had to be Arthur Campbell, MC, Allen Campbell the reader will meet times higher than usual,

could go on, swinging, his Gief- radioactive particios in any part "waabed.

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