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1956.

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PANDIT NEHRU: ONE-MAN SHOW

unconcealable. Not even Gandh!, whom he ulmors idolised, ever shook his rationalist outlook. Gundhi, he once expialued, "is the great peasant, with a pea- rant's outlook on affairs. with

a prasant's blindness some aspects of life."

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And he ant

"I have admiked: become a queer mixture of East and West, out of place every- where, at home nowhere.”

At the same time, Nehru has rever forgotten that he is an indian, and he is neutely con-

seo. of his people's history, of their pirations, d of their potentialities He never for moment thought that Indians couk! And salvation by beenm- Ing mulation Beglichen,

1 was the belief that Braft zuje produced only imitation

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more than him

turned

to

EHRU is bad - Englishmen which,

temperal. auto anything else,

against the British. cratic, uncom-

When he returned home promising, Inclined practise law he soon found him-

bourd seir

tap with Indian grievances and then, gradually. in nationalist politics. He was Imprisoned un was to go back to prison nine times,

At the same time, he kept a certain reserve. He did not much like the hurly-burly of demo-

to preach at others, and not particularly concerned when his actions shatter his principles.

short,

He is, in about everything enemies call him.

just his

But he is a good deal more than that.

بلة

fic

RUBI

I

He has never been able to see

why it is that men who think tres clearly than he does should voles in public affairs.

have a

Now has he ever had, any uso for Gandhi's drezin of a retim Ac which to a golden age"

the

himself the role of the "man of is no doubt that Nehru some- the people."

At times he has been refresh- ingly blurs. At the outset of World Wer i he said that no ore in India could doubt that Britain's cause was right and

times aces these lastes for what they are-dodges and Issues which underinine India's claim

MYSTERY OF HITLER'S HOARD

By XAN FIELDING

war

OWARDS the end of 1952 Walter Funk, who was still serving 0. life sentence for crimes in Spandau gaol, casually inquired what had become of the Reichsbank treasure.

He knew it had been buried somewhere in the Bavarian Alps a few days before Germany's collapse

for, as Hitler's Reich- minister for Economica, ho had himself given the order for its interment. He knew, too, that it had been earthed by the Allies a inter-every- month or so

one knew that.

But what had happened to it since? With typient Teutonic punctille, Funk still felt him- self responsible for what his Fuehrer entrusted him with; and, besides, he had never been given

receipt for ill

the

Well

what had happened to Rolchsbank treasure? No

one knew. And no one knows for certain to this day. But there is one man who has a pretty shrewd suspicion W. Stanley Moss.

INTRIGUING

Mr

The unanswered question Intrigued Mr Moys as much as it had worried Herr Funk. How on earth could such enormous wealth disappear into thin air? to moral fcadership. Λι theIt could not have just blown

same time he knows that he

bars of gold.

nway, for as he later discovered badly in need in unifying forces, -It consisted of 730 12-kilo Just, and that Britalo could is assaults on the caste syя- have India's wholehearted sup- tem have split

The country port for the asking. But he said badly. His social reforms have India were granted her freedom that, at the same time, unless split his own party. he would to un Brkish as hard as he could, de- Oghting the

apite the Justice of the British war cause, He did and he spent much of the war In gaol.

Better, he may think, a low dodges than a greater chaos,

Some day, perhaps, he will be able to afford a tidy-ups.

ly

At the same time; he is utter- intolerant of anybody Nac's dodges and sins, great and small. le lives to preach,

his courvarymen could revel

of the simple life,

At the same time, he is

of aware He knew that India must have acutely

political administra- realities. He has forced factories, efficient

his tion, and a new society in which middle-class party to introduce

of the the necessary social reforms by v Hindu religion, with its casto leaving them in no doubt that system, must go. It was these the altcruntive

is to be forced

much of the trappings

alms which led him to Socialism out of existence.

practical Socialism designed He knows that. in Indio, to get specific jobs dono rather Communism must remain a very

then a theoretical Socialism. eerious challenge so long as the

the outside

he country remains poor and, be though he courts Communists in world, he gnois them as often as he can in India, Focal Point

Unlike many Socialists, has never for a moment

eved Socialism was something that could be had without price, or that that price did not freedom.

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involve some sucrifice of human

dividualist and believer in per-

HE

Status Quo

his preaching is usually in favour of the status qua. Truce lines are a favourite of course, 30, peaceful co-existence.

his and

of is

He prefers everyone to stand his ground. That way, at least, Res peace,

Peace India must have. Ho has made her self-sumetent in food-and even produced a paper surplus. But there is a long way to go yel

boxes

of

weighing in all just over nine German tone valued at OVET

$10,000,0005 not to mention 26 precious stones and metals, and six large stacks of banknotes. Yet

not an ounce of gold, not a single stone, not a solitary bank- nolę reached the

proper authorities

Where had it all gone, then? That was what Mr Mosa was determined to find out.

He was well equipped for the task. As

wartime agent, he had seen

secret

the skull- duggery that often went on in and newly liberated occupied countries, and so knew what to exprel.

NEXT DOOR

Moreover, at the time of the outery be happened to be stay- ing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, right next door to a villa where some of the treasure had actually been concealed,

ሆኝ .

He was therefore on the spot ( the very start and could launch his investigation straight- AWBY

nam too much of an in E is aware that he could, for The trouble with his policy is instance, take Goa at the that, above all else, his la 0 sonal freedom to like over-much drop of a hat and be cheered one-man show. Who could ever regimentation. Yet it seems to by all India. But he hasn't done take over the maze of contra- me obvious that in 0 com- it, for all his talk and for all dictions and stay ta offlec? plex social structure individual, the disturbances ho has Who, indeed, knows where the But as soon as he began ques-... freedom has to be limited. The connived at. And one of the policies are supposed lead tloning the local inhabitants, jesser liberties may often need reasons that he hasn't acted and what each is calcuinted to

they shut up like clums. The limitation in the Interests of the seems to be that he is acutely achieve?

mere mention of the gold caused larger freedom,"

aware of the unifying force of Perhaps Mr Menon, But, one man to feign a heart attack, He described himself as

and a woman he called on al- "a anil-colonialism in a country perhaps not even he

never very far from chaos. Goi For, if it is true that Nehru most tainted when he told her repentert bourgeois" and made no bones about the fact that provides a focal point for that can see no reason why those

the purpose of his visit. his Congro Party was a force. If I ever goes, that point who think less clearly than he was his first cluo-guilty con- "bourgeois" organisation finan- will no longer exist.

should have a say in affairs, it

science.

He was obviously; on ced by middle-class money and

the right trail, Kashmir, too, serves to rally also seems to be true that he run by middle-class brains, anti-Pakistani feeling, and that has never found anyone who AL last he ran to ground a Nehru has never claimed for is another unifying force. There seems to him to think as clearly,

TAKES A

BEATING

By RODERICK MANN

appearance:

門

Hero

| witness who was willing to talk,

and the Interview what he was already

to suspect; that at least one American was as deeply impil- cated in the gold racket as the German themselves,

HIS DOSSIER

few..

He showed me out into the

This revelation considerably courtyard. Thot air was..crisp broadened the field of inquiry, and tremendously fit and well

cold. Ho said: "I am and subsequent pumping and beautiful women [In order of bringing Odile to London to further sources yielded still more handsome.

information until, within Trujillo, meet Flor

my friends. Why not Despite the reputation this, Danielle Darricus, Doris Duke, have tea with us at Claridge'27" months, M

Mods had compiled dashing Dominican has won as Barbara Hutton, Odile Rodin.I a Roméo, he is very much man's man. He akis well, play time to be a diplomat?"

How on earth have you found "You bring the mushrooms,"

I said, "and 171 be there.": polo, drives fast_cars fast.] "Exercise," gasped Rubl, be-

good

He has bulk India into powerful industrial nation: has slashed through centurles of prejudice and hatred Arki begun to build a society found- od on something near social

T the appointed hour I Justice; he has managed to pre-

rang the bell on the serve the framework of partin-

forbidding great doors mentary democracy In the midst I of almost overwhelming chaos. in the Rue de Bellechasse.

For he le, too, most of the

Dogs started barking. things his friends call him.

Then an He could hardly

aperture opened been-- have considering his history-any- and I stepped through into thing but a study in contradic- la cobbled courtyard. tions.

On the other hand, there

"I don't do much are those who think that contradictions are becoming ever

tween leaps. "That's the secret." now," admitted Rubl.

The crushed man dealt him more inveconellable, and see in

"I'm only Minister- blow on the side of the head, Consulate for Domi- that fact enormous dangers.

and Rubi rected towards me. Nehru was born 87 years ago in Allahabad, the son of a dis-

"He is upstairs ...

There fighting,"

must be something else too." His said the man.

I said. "Two matri- tinguished-, local lawyer.

no father, Motilal (Nobru," had

Wondering idly who might ages or so ago didn't you tell me illusions. He was later to be be

gelling the worst of it you drank a special Japanesa come.

a leader in nationalist Rubrosa or his bride of one mushroom tea?" politics and 171 implacable month. Odile Rodin-I followed enemy of British rule; but he the man up two flights of stairs Rubi paused for a moment. realised that his son, to succeed," into an alực.

It wha

Tuli

"Ah, yes," he said. "But must have a British education. curious things.... cowboy hats, gave It up. It ceased to be

guns, saddles, punchbags,

effective."

Hard-headed

the

In it were a Dodge saloon, n Mercedes racer, two dogs, and (a man with a peg leg.

"Senor Rubirosa expects me," I said.

In the middle of the room was ; "For, the benefit of posterity,

boxing ring. And in the -I said, will you tell me exact-

He

I

nica.

Before that I was Charge d'Affaires

and Ambassador."

"Did you enjoy being; Ambassador?”.

Rubi shook his head. "No.. Too many din- ners and parties. Being called Your Excellency doesn't make up for a ruined stomach.".

He put on his shirt

So it was that Jawaharlal went middle of that-clad in a Fellow ly what Japanese mushroom and they do woll

to Harrow and then to shirt, cand-coloured slacks and tea does?" Trinity College, Cambridge. It wearing boxing gloves - Jay was at Trinity that the young, Rubl. Nehru ecquired the hard-headed rationalist outlook on life which

has dominated him ever since,

The College in those days had

Russell, MOOTE,

Above him. towored a man

ì

closely fol- shook his head, "No. It's lowed by the crushed torell me in.

embarrastench.

"In French," said Rubi, it's

aid "You've bocu to Odile Rodha married to for a month. Nobody. even more embarrassing,"

abandoned inquiries into ever aces either of you, McTaggart, with a crushed sort of look as 'Rabi's" elixir, and watched; in Why are you handlinge Whitehead and Broad a list not though a bridge had once fallen. Horribed allence, while the her as though sho only of the men who dominated on him. He was also wearing wished many dragged: Rubi were sloten property?!* Brkish philosophy for a quar boxing gloves. And raining, beross to a chair, sitipped him Ho fasiled a row of tor of century, but a llat punishmens on Rubl's honda to. the waist, and began handsome teath of the most.... hard-headed, This is my Instructor dan

blumlost,, most, uncompromising. Ekspos "Kaichoke Ruhl, swaying Bummelling fiercely.

"Wouldn't you," ha

"How does "that Blest?!

cof?! · 1, raki,⠀ If you were thinkers over' amassed by any feebly. Used to, bo French skat

we married, to Odil67) 1. educational institutión in his middleweight." TAR

"Dreadful,” Jald **It pick her up of the I wondered

why the crushed only becomes pleasant The versatmosphere was man was hitting Bubl so hard leaves off,!!! electric, und Nehru's subsequent | Pürhspalhe si dian't pay hims career, has shown its influencé, enough?? ANDEREN ARE ANY Fey állance ebrej

His..concorrupt for

Rum, on his foot again, began, pound) (öst Koreni uzywtikin which he dwór | temping Fround the permeated

|lookock-after five marriker kha

Aanly

1. he theatres nach night and) bring her stroiglit, at home, WIE, such anher beautiful wife that f throws the amart thing to do.

car downstairs, beanuru wiz any fried 16. Avaihe whart thing to do!

...

a complete dossier of the cafe.

It was now time, to confront the German and Americans ties with his

Ho had

snubbed by

imply

Mathori

Ministars

Erhard and Schaffer, Funk's postwar equivalents, had merely passed him on to HICOG, U.S. Administration in Bad

and here he bad been given a polite brush-of. Their attitude changed: when they found that he, an amateur had nosed out as much ra, tho Kriminal Poikel

and

the best. between them: EMERSONES

DECAMPED

What did this amount 107 Briefly this: that everyono Involved with the treasure had decamped at the time of lis disappearance The gold, itself was still missing, but the

four German who had barklled it!:

con traced to, the had boon

Argen tino where they were reported

to be living in affluence, Immune from extraditiong"

And what of their Amerles partner in crime? In the police files of two countries, and

Mr. Moss'sponsartz

pársaital "spoount of the

caso there's oppolito this benent of anyoria try, his band at filing it here's a description of the fugitive:

Short, Erect, in his mid förties: with blond hair, ste NOTEL COURA and therefor

qucation. To the