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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961.

Nehru the arch-humbug

AFTER INDIA HAS INVADED GOA,

A LOOK BACK AT WHAT HE HAS SAID.......

PEACEFUL co-existence has

been the Indian way of life and is as old as India's thought and culture.

--speech during Bulganin-Krushev visit, December 1955.

India has given a symbol to its people the symbol of the Asoka Wheel, which represents peace, morality, and the ancient culture and peaceful ways of this country.

---speech in Delhi, July 1951. To seek to impose a settle- ment by force is to disregard the rights of nations.

- Suez. September 1956.

+L. A hoax; × jesting or befopling indi" | s1}| imposition. Dis.

It is the attitude of regarding one's own conception as righteous and everything else wrong that

leads to conflicts.

at Red Cross conference, Delhi, October 1957.

"We, the peopic of the Kinlted Nations, determined to save sücered-

ing gearrations from the scourge of War

to reaffirm

fath in the dignity and worth of the eman person to practise tolerance and Hve ogrther tú peure with one and in ensure by the acceplante Giber of principles that writed forer shall not be sed save in the CODINGA interest, have pestelved Ta rumble together-st, ete Cle

THIS

is the preamble

to the charter of

that greatly prized and idealised

institution

founded in San Fran- cisco in 1944.

This is also in wicked reality. and shame, a mere 17 years 16h) - the label round the neck of Mat sarne institution, metamorphosen intu à charging Congo rhinoceros. tearing up The earth in great craters. shattering mines, works, and hospitals and sending thou- sads of simpic Africans scurry- ing back to the barbarism of their forefathers or perhaps to be infinitely craved for, to death Itsett

What cruci ebauges these 17 years have wrought and what monster of iniquity now stands before us where once trans- figured Valhalla itself glimpsed!

This war has convinced me of the utter folly and criminal- ity of armed conflict and methods of violence in inter- national affairs.

--article in News Chronicle, December 1941.

A thing which ta'was really what i pritendr to be an impostore, a decepilos, fraud, pharm

A very small conflict has the shadow of a big conflict behind it, and a big conflict has the shadow of a world war behind it.

-on Syrian crisis, September 1957. We have been conditioned by a master spirit of this age, Mahatma Gandhi, to get rid of violence and make friends with all.

-during Bulganin-Kruschev visit, November 1855.

The only approach we can make is an approach of tolerance,

of avoidance of violence and hatred.

-about cold war danger, Delki, October 1957.

With the invasion of Finland Russia lined herself with the aggressor nations and thereby was false to the traditions she herself has nourished for many years.

in an article, February 1940. India is not strong enough to make a very great difference to world

But affairs.

whatever strength we have we cast it on the side of peace.

-in January 1864.

Humbug

a. Deception, pretande, shkas ; dad inutjoosion":

Anything which takes us to- wards peace and away from war is good.

-speech in April 1958. London Express Service.

VIOLENCE

Or is it the United States and the United Nations? Is it the Old World or is it tho New?

Sir Winston Churchill in his famous speeches after the war

INDIA'S

MORAL

LEADERSHIP

London Erreta Service

The gathering forces Dame Edith

menace

that Britain...

by LORD HINCHINGBROOKE

Tory M.P. for South Dorset

maturity, the more potent for evil it may become.

For Britain, with its seat- tered and changing Common- wealth. there lurks a danger more acute than for any other of the Powers.

1 is no distance at all, for example, from Katanga to Northern Rhodesia, or Tangan- rike, or Uganda.

It is no mere coincidence that What now prevents B in the first few years when it daemonic majority of small enshrined the veto of the Great Powers in the United Nations. Powers and the

with protection of drunk internal systems given by Article II. the United Nations was in a condition for all to admire.

It is no mere coincidence either that now, in the present when these safeguards period,

we have consciously created and thing made by nations in their have been all but swept away

nwn image.

eg the experiment again? That is the supreme question of the hou

No demigod

Constantly one hears Minis- ters, Opposition leaders and thers complaining that the United Nations is not perfect enough, that it lacks the trap- pings of a super Power, that its faults are the faults of callow

youth. was

Can humandy rid itself of the present apparition or must we physically destroy the creature

What those liberals who wor- ship at the shrine of interna- tionalism have never understood is that this sacred institution is ne demigod sent down from at- other world to look after us, but

Never do they seem to under- stand the terrible truth that the more the United Nations is groomed

to refinement and

and when contingents of troops from all over the world are ral- lying to its banner, apprehen- sion steadily grows.

More acute

The fact is that the nations over the years have consciously or unconsciously, like Dr Fran- kenstein in his laboratory, creat- ed a robot that cannot be tamed.

new nationhoud.

from voting for military mea- sures against one faction or an- other in these countries, creat- ing civil war and bringing to nought Britain's painstaking at- tempts at multiracial Common- wealth development?

We have to ask ourselves some deadly serious questions:-

put the so-called Free World on quard against Communism.

Hardly had we finished The exhausting War of Unconditional Surrender against Hitler than we found ourselves geared to a re- lentless crusade against our wartime allies, the Soviet Union. The United States emerged from

the war economically

far

enriched and militarity more powerful than at any time in her history. (Our post-war lcdge, was handsomely primed by recovery, let us freely acknow-

her munificence.) We accepted her political and ideological leadership.

Melted away

Who has done the British Commonwealth the greatest ourselves mischief since the war?

in the

administration We

Sitwell...

memories are

never sold

By

SALLY VINCENT

Becoming increasingly liberal IT secmed curiously sad to me that Dane Edith top flights Sitwell, a person so utterly decorative and enamoured of decoration, should have ex- changed items of her remarkable possessions for

of our

Who has upset our time-table found no diflculty in switch

of development most?

ing nearly the whole of our de-

Who has invaded our tradi- fence programme, at America's tional bastions of strategic and behest, into the line-up against commercial power to the great- est degree?

Communism.

Is it Russia, is it Europe?

ELECTION OUTCOME

THE final outcome of the election was decided only last week when Mr D. J. Killen, sitting Liberal member for the Queensland seat of More- ton held the seat by only 110 votes after the dis- tribution of preferences.

This returns the Government

to offer and gives them a 62-60 majority in the House of Repre- sentatives. The result of the elec- tion has been in doubt for ten kdays.

Earlier the Lord Mayor of Sydney Alderman Jensen con- ceded he had been beaters ju the Bennelong seat by the Minis- ter for Army, Mr Cramer. Mr Menzies lust eight seats in Queensland

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The Federal Treasurer, Mr Holt, said he believed the peo ple were not voting for à change of Government, but seeking impress on the Government the desire for sme change in pre- een: policies" -

SHARKS

AUSTRALIAN

NEWSLETTER

BY

EMH

And An South, Australis a jeaping

shark landed across a 20ft boat aft Eyre Peninsula. It landied only inches from a pro- fessional fisherman who was the only person on the bost. He had just caught a 51b snapper when for it with

A young dental student, the shark leaped

John Andrews, on holiday Jaws wide open. As it threshed

it knocked a box of

wildly, at Laguna Bay at Noosa snapper over the side, and sud- Heads, Queensland, was denly as the boat titted, attacked by a shark this shark splashed into the sea.

week and his left leg wos torn off above the knee and his left arm, severely matiled..

At the time-of-the attick, 6.30 am, he was walking to the beach less than two feet of water after riding a surfboard which he was pushing before him.

He frantically tried to beat off the shark at the waters edge, where it was so shallow that the shark's whole body was exposed. Two men ran to his. assistance and pulled him, clear and these were joined by life-savers. Doc- tors were quickly summoned and he was rusted to Brisbane Hog- pital where he is, in a thángerous'

condition.

Later resavers wet buit on Ave longths of chains attached to four, gallon, drunix, and the shark was found desal on one of the Lines aboui, 200-yards from dhore, with tät vielm'i'

Lett leg Inside 11.

Sydney warning

the

Packs of killer sharks are turking off Sydney's Burdng beaches, according to pro- fessional fishermen.

They say there are more sharks off the past now thai for yearë.

They blame recent for -rential-rain for the shark – threat because driven them from thele haunts in estuaries.

Vice-president of tbo Bydney Gamefishing Club Mr

Davidson, Bald tist on Sunday he and Bob Dyer had. caught s. 54010. shark off Bonal.

.E.

44Experts warn

present is one of the WORKE

The Sydney-Hobart yacht race took place as usual on Boxing Day, and the largest yacht in the race was Astor, a 73-foot schooner. Picture shows some. of the activities at Rushcutters Bay where the yachts were prepared before the

race.

:

a sum nearing £17,000 at a Sotheby's sale

And sadder still that the loss of these things (paintings by her friend, the Russian artiste was curiously beautiful," And she remembers, his face. Gradually and impercep-Pavel Tobelitchew, and a col tibly the weight of our industrial notebooks

lection of her own handwritten she said with great fenderness, A very He had a noble face, and manuscripts) and political effort, which might might mean that she has relin- emaciated, it was a pleasure to tragic face. Though desperately have continued to pour into both quished some of the fabric of look at him.” her memories. the old and the new Common-

This. perhaps, is However, it would seem ab- Dame Edith sent only one of his neway wealth,

has been reorientated into international bodies and inton behalf of the brilliant, magni- other she kept for herself.

surdly arrogant to feel anything self-portraits to Sotheby's. The forms of defence which suitficent, and unpredictable Dame America's basic strategic plan. Edith.

For the other day she arranged

Purely Commonwealth economic schemes have melted away.

a party for her friends to

from

was

that

to

Our reserves.

She spoke, with pride, of her his wit, his generosity, and his friend's genius as à painter, of

Our tariffs have beer: celebrate

the gathering-in of poverty. "He would give away his very food," she said, “and lowered to the point of acute the hard cash.

yet he was so very poor the danger

To And when she spoke used to keep thei paper on avold a second devaluation wether Hampstead home, it

which he drew to use again." accept a substantial loan and immediately apparent

She spoke too of their first.. and with it most unpropitious her memories are intact.

meeting. "He circled round and terms for linking up with Europe

round me, looking at me as though I were a ghost, for I bare extraordinary resemblance

and placing Commonwealth trade in even greater jeopardy.

Macaulay observed: *C

COLOUR

nation that calls in the aid of It is 33 years since the met-- an ally stronger than itself the painter Tchelitchew, and perishes by the assistance it four years since his death; but receives."

she remembers immaculately.

wh

to a priest he knew.

TEARS

She was gay with the memory, But later. when she remend

But how few people there are As the remembers, her words who observe the gathering forces are somehow reminiscent of bered the last time she saw that menace our pride and fall sovereignty all over the world.

In blinkers

that is young in

art him, she wept. "I cannot hear deliberately formless, but full to speak of the Inst time," she of colour and life.

said. "My dear friend is dead." Perhaps, then, a few worke She darts about in her mind, of art were. not such a great but this is not rambling for loss when compared with the every word is spectacularly stature of Darne Edith Sitwell's

(London Express. Servicë),

The entire "Establishment," vocative and not one is wasted. memory. one-half of the Tory Party and She laughed with delight when both Opposition Parties, seems she recalled Tchelitchew's. "ter- absolutely blind to this danger. rible temperament," claiming They are convinced that the that her own was very similar. juggernaut which is rolling down To illustrate her own before upon us comes from the Fast her friends, she grandly boasted. and not from the West,

of the time she slapped Mrs. Patrick Campbell's face,

Sydney has again had Eastern suburbs had a mixed medley of wea- very heavy storms, and ther, ranging from 90 in Bondi the masonic degrees to as low as 68 hall was damaged as

lightning struck the aches. degrees, with some se- vere thunderstorms, and during one storm, 96 FISH MYSTERY yellow-tail and mackerel. themselves. points of rain fell in the city in 20 minutes.

A fireball damaged overhead wires in one suburb, and many homes were blacked out all night as County Council staff were unable to cope with the thousands af-

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suburb.

*WRATH

They are absolutely Con- tent to go on in blinkers, their eyes shielded from the areas of Britain's traditional greatness and opportunity, their gaze rivet ed on that wretched city in "I was four years old," she Some aspects of the mystery Central Europe and what lies said, "and 1 rose in my poram are that at Evans Head there is

bulator in my wrath to strike. a strange smell which cannot be beyond.

ber, because she called me baby the thirty women working on the wrench the masks, from off our went on, though I was often tracked down, and that most of Perhaps little Katanga will "SO I understood him," she prawn catches have severe head-faces. Perhaps, the 1,000lb. This vicim. He used to shake me.

bombs we nearly despatched will crying: I am Russian, do not risk. The dead Ash include snapper suddenly prove more real than battle with me. And I would up to 20 16, 18 to 20 lb Jewish the 60-megaton, firework with say 'No, my dear boy, I never sly and surface fish including which the Russians are diverting will""

the Then he tellshed: plory of one glorious Satur- But wake up to its senseless day afternoon at the painter's andmebing foreign policy London studio when h

Tex we must if we are to write threatened to kill her and hurled Any chapters at all in the canvases past her head, s history of the second half of The disturbance ended with this century, a quiet ton party,

hon; says Dame Edith, Pavel, had a spoon- Dame Ta

rasphotry

Jam in ten e querelled.

with all h the Atlantic, is fast becoming friends she said, "but he had Britain's principal enemy. We

was the

But a marine biologist of the State Fisheries said the most Local fishermen have been probable explanation

mystified as million of "red" tide", a build-up of enoT- fish have swam, heads mous mumbers of poisonous

plankton. our of the "water, ** G and droppad

to This is minute Hosting whimin and vegetable orging

for North Coast beaches, in water which are the Ash's The main arog KVORU INAIN" souren of food.?? Head 512

from

Sydney, where of point, a

for pravé

The United Nations, while

it receives the unconditional sp port of our great cousin across

cup

The Hosting mass consumer all the oxygen in the water may have to moblige support enormous charm. He once told Zorces the ash to come to the from wherever we can to de would talks to Hon. And, while mi that atrites the ladies Martace. The en tide" is very feat it, if we and our Commen rare in Australia and there have wealth are to survive. been only two recorded ip

"Live" Kabinding 3 Regpirinha Marinica),

they thought he was distening to them, he was really listening to what went on Inalde his-haddy'

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