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INT'L DISASTER RELIEF FUND MAY BE

BE FORMED

Geneva, Dec. 1. The Secretariat of the League of Red Cross Sotletles is investigating the possibility of creat- Ing an International Disaster Relief Fund.

The proposed Fund would be under the trusteeship of the League, which is a form of federation of 71 national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies throughout the world,

The

idea of the Fund was (about £350,000 sterling) for

endi of victims of the earthquakes

forward.nt the

in

Symbol Of

1 Of India's Progress Towards Fuller Education

New Delhi, Deg 1. Strikes, stonings, smashed heads and slidy- tered windows have recently become symbols of India's unhappy progress towards fuller educa tion.

Student agitations, for years an intrinsic part of Indian academic life, have lately taken on a more serious turn bringing from the Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, a stern threat that he would close down centres of higher education,

His attention had been drawn | "As a result the schools and to these and other incidents; colleges in the country, have In Lucknow, a longstanding becomo factories, turning out difference between the Univer mass-produced products at such

ity

be mede gement and

rate that they cannot 5,000 a students crupled into riots in absorbed in the employment which two people died, dozens market." were injured and communal ilte This is the excuse offered by was brought to a five-day talt, students for what teachers can

"a general Stonings, crson, looting and Irresponsibility and

police charges became failure to face up to the future" the order of the day,

— a future which really does In Trivandrum, 1,800 miles to not exist the south, students who alleged

REPLY interference in their Union Detivities were gaoled for dis- orderly behaviour.

In Agra, famous city of the Taj Mahal, colleges were closed while

I held

TEACHERS'

Teachers, in reply, to students' accusations of (nalficiency, say: "What can you expect. Empty stomachs are not conducive

brilliant minds.”

to

A

student elements Teachers in Indian primary mpathy strikes" for schools receive less pay than those injured during the Luck-houre-boys, and professors are on now riota.

A par with schlo: clerks. One of the country's leading primary teacher gels 24 sterling educationalists, Professor Venka-month, a professor about £25 tarangalya, expressed widely- sterlent-teacher

relationships held view when he said: "In Indin, young

men undergoing are worsened by overcrowding. the process of clucation have India's 30 universities are cater- become strangers to an orderlying for 400,000 students and the and well-regulated e."

country's 771,809 teachers murt cope with the education of more

DEAL OF TRUTHI

Blame for the unhappy state than 25,000,000 pupils. of education in India is difficult

Universities and classrooms are

a more

to attribute. Teachers accuse packed to the doors, but univer-

udhts of trrceporibility and sal education is still "wanting to

to be men before they than a cherished hope in the

Government's mini. have anished being boys,"

BASIC EDUCATION Students say that university ufficials Interfere in their "It wo were to provide the privalo right that is, the right sort of basic education we con- 11 would be nteessary. to play politics and that the sider. teachers are lacking in ability much more than the total in-

of the anch knowledge of modern come

Government off India today." Mr Nehru said! mehods of instruction.

recently

of

put tive Committee, which is made dollars (about

October by the League's Execu- the Ionian Islands, over 350,000 present unOCATIONS

a

self-

is a deal of truth in each

So these claims.

fur, India hes

only Students say that if they are achieved a literacy rate of 18.9 irresponsible it is because of per cent of a population of 352,- their lack of confidence in the 900,000.

of them know Scarcely a day passes without future. Most

or civic leader de- that their graduation diploma a politician will be little more than a ticket manding "a new approach to education," One critic recently to an unemployment burenu.

According to Intest figures re- urged that the clock be turned leased by the Employment Ex-back 2,000 years when this was change, there are 16,251 gradu-the yllabus in vogue: utes and 112.562 matriculates al "Rise an hour before sunrise,

cleanse the body in ciconse

a nearby 200

stream, pray as the sun comes £117,000 ster-

work

little,

tako food, A foreign correspondent who up, up of representatives of 10ling) for victims of the Japanese nations, as part of a plan to ex-floods, and clout 285,000 dollars recently advertised for a private and attend to the comforts of the

received more than lescher." for socrotary L05,000 sterling)

an abstemious, "Lead and reinforce Red Cross (about pand disaster relief work.

victims of floods in northern and 200 applications from university

graduates who were prepared to disciplined and righteous life." southern India.

as £8 This, cald the critic, produced receive salaries as low In connection with the gen-

strongman with The figure for the Ionian sterling a month.

well-developed cral plan, the Executive Cam-

mind and to An educationalisi usked mittee has rce:ived offers from Islands does not thelude assis-

what Australian Red Cross and tance which is being given comment on student unemploy-spiritual outlook on life.

That India,

Indian 19 rehabilitation pro- ment said: "In

now scok to go educationalists Turkish Red Crescent to under a

gramme recently launched by are 'not enough jobs to

In these days of maintain League warehouses of the League for 03,000 people round. To establish some basis produce,

and hunger- emergency-relief supplies to who were made homeless by for selection. the Government stone-throwing meet dissators in the Far East the disaster.

decided that ali clerical staf strikes they realise they have a

long way to go.-Reuter. As other exemples of rehabili- should be university-trained. warehouses already exist in talion relief, the League is spend- ing some 6,000,000 dollars (about The Committee has also de- for victims of the North Sea £2,000,000 sterling) In Holland elded to open,

talks with a foods. The money is going this propriate national End inter- national authorities to ensure fabricated houses, textiles and agricultural implements nad recognition of the Red Cross as

machinery, the organisation which is best qualined to meet nutional disas-over 1,000,000 dollars (about fer situations and to ensure £350,000 sterling) since the out- their collaboration,"

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES .

A set of eight "Gulding Pain= ciples" for, National Red Cross societies in case of enlamity was adopted and the Secretariat has been instructed to prepare International Disaster Re-

an

ller Manual.

The first two of the guiding principles read:

Disaster relict is con- sidered to be one of the funda mental duties of

Red Cross

In Korea, which has received

break of war in 1950, a major aan of the League is to develop an effelent nallonal Red Cross |Society. China Mill Sportal.

Kenyatta Appeal Started

Nairobi, Doc. I... The appeal of Jomo Kenyatta

а national and five other Africans against

Soataty and conte- their convictions on charge of quently all national societies Mau Mau, activi Lagan in

should be prepared in advance Kitalo toy before. Justice G.

to accept this nesponsibility D. Rudd and H. Mayers,

when disaster strikes, When

ever possible,

national Red

ordinate. emergency

Mr D. N. Pritt, QC, the

Cross Scotty should werk to co-counsel for the defence, claimed

disaster that the only evidence, against |

Kenyatta was that he was allezed

participated in

relief within its country.

an

2. In the event of Inter- to Have national reller action following initiation ceremony before the elisaster, a national Red Mau Mau coelety was proscribed, Croes Society should sack to and therefore, before it was centralise gifts or contributions ; illegal

origiraling In its country for

the victims of the calamity for Mr Pritt also challenged the despatch, through Red Cross Jurlediction of the court, the fact that the governor, had not effectively consented to the

channels,

· DISASTER RELIEF O prosecutions, and that a magis

trate in the earlier trial had

The remaining principles con- ignored the defence evidence. — cern matters such as the co- France-Press. ordionung role of the Lengue in disaster relief, disposal of gur- plus supplies and the handling af rellot goods not of Red Cross

Original Bonubes de Rouge, Secretary of the League, said In his bl-annual гороть to tho Executive Committed that disne ter rellet accounted for most of lito Red Cross, did amounting to 2,000,000 dollars (about (£670,4 ::: 000 starling) given since, last pris Mayb

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