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APRIL

NOTES OF THE DAY INDIA'S FUTURE The Very Idea!

SECURITY GUARANTEES

on the

CRACKED EASTER EGGS By George MASTER was a bad egg

E this year for all of us.

holding out on us. There were plonty of shroffe anxious to give us change if wo handed over the choque to them but there were hono willing to change it. In the end it came to a question of pay ing our board or buying a paper, and since we loathe creating pre- codents we chose the latter.

Things have been moving quick By SIR MICHAEL O'DWYER, G.C.IE., K.C.S.I. ly during the last aix or seven days in the sphere of dianrms White Paper proposole for "We have been confronted with ment. Britain's loadership to the good government and the problem of reconciling the malas the most hopeful source of achievement, chlely because of satisfaction of India have two car-claims of three partners who bave the widespread feeling in Europe dinal faults: They do not give for many generations been united that Britain's guarantee can be good government and they do not in an undertaking of far-reaching Before it cracked we were trusted, where they dare not trust give satisfaction.pics ramifications; Great Britain on the broke and by the time it was

As to good government, they put ono hand. British India oach other's, without it. And there is no longer any doubt that the Army and Police under differ other, and Indian India on the hatched it was All Fools Day.

The old

Articles of Ass- To start at the beginning progress cannot be made without eat mastera and thereby Import other more specific guarantees of execu security; they eliminate the Brit clation were getting out

to bo threatened to be really Good this tion in the proposed Convention. Ish personnel from nearly all the a new bond of union had to test may say that Good Friday Once again, Brish policy eceta to Services and thereby lower eff found...the new bond must be the year what with pay day unfortun have undergone modification to ciency: they yaatly increase ex-bond of an All-India Fedoration ately coinciding and the banks bring it into line with changed air penditure and thereby threaten with the rights of each of the three

parties effectively safeguarded." cumstances and further commit- bankruptcy. ments are possible-If a clone

As to satisfaction, no single understanding with the United body of Indian opinion is willing

Here, then, are these two basic States provos possible,

to accept them ne they stand: the Princos insist on drastic al principles-partnership, and the terations; the Congress extremists responsibility of the British Parlin- repudiate the whole scheme; the ment The White Paper elimi Indian Liberals reject the safe-nates both; for partnership it sub

Friday was a wet pallid!" of The impression given that the guards; the orthodox Hindus reject stitutes surrender. It is exactly British Government is vacillating the Poona Fact; the Punjab Sikhs as if the principal partner in an misery and we spent the day try

old-established business word In its disarmament policy is wholly and Hindus will not submit to a

Ing to balance the humidity out! falso. There may be flexibility in Moslem majority; the non-official propose to abandon all the func-alde with Scotch inside and it was the means to the end but inflexible Europeane are divided and no instead the chowkidar or watch poriment. Each time the bar- tions of partnership and to become very successful as a scientific ox Is the determination to secure an ous; the anxiety of the Indian Civil ngrooment, however much it may Service is impossible to exagger man at the door. So in India, un- bo short of the Ideal, that will give ate": the great Moslem minority der the White Paper, we retain the Army, thereby exposing ourselves a new stability to European rela are alarmed at the prospect of a to the charge of governing by force tions for the next ten years. Thus Central Government mainly Hindu, alone, but abandon every function far, the Government has pursued a and some hope to form a Mohan of Government. In my view, we perfectly clear line. Further com- medan Federation in the North can have no satisfactory scheme mitments are certain to West Altogethor, the scheme, which is not based on this prin bo criticised, but those

in which aims at satisfying the eiple of partnership. sympathy with the idea of a "moderate politicians," satisfies

On theso nasumptions let us now collective guarantee of peace nobody in India and is causing in-¡ through the League of Nations creasing alarm here to all who venture on the main lines of au

alternative schemo: will not cavil. If it is agreed that have Interests in India.

1. Frame the Constitution so us the world cannot, yet do without sanctions if it is desired to ensuroj

to provide, if and when fenalble,

SANCTIONS

tion..

to

motor fell a point our spirits rose pint, and when we began to see two barometers and both of them awful. Atmospheric pressure is a falling, the pace became something great thing in its place which is not the night after. We had to carry our face about on a tray the next day and when we showed it outside, it looked no ratten a ricksha coolle refused to take it as a faro.

At The Races However, we unfortunately ra-

the ponco, they might just as well) The White Paper may be modi- for an All-India Federation based be strong and speedy in applica-fied by the Joint Committee, but on the voluntary association of the covered in time to go to the races its errors are fundamental be-Provinces and self-governing States and that is where we fell down cause it is based on the wrong senior partner) for certain com-

With Great Britain (hitborto the badly.

REGIONAL PACTS

assumption that you can by a atroke of the pen transplant de-mon purposes. In the meantime Britain's recent questions to mocracy to Indis. On the other create the Council of Greater India, France and M. Corbin's answers hand, there are the pledges in the representing British India and the LETTING THE PUBLIC what is really expected of Britain aroused. This leads to the ques-mon concern, as proposed by the down. Expensive falla at fivo reveal very clearly, once again, Act of 1919 and the expectations States, to discuss matters of com

TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934, -

KNOW

cles,

The falling habit ia fearfully Infectious. The flag would fall; ono we had backed would fall. the horses would run and then the

down; and then we would fall

bucks a time and if ever an animal if she wants a disarmament agree-tion often asked: "What is the Statutory Commission.

2. The Central Government to lover eulogises the "noblest an- ment. When Sir Austen Chamber alternative to the White Paper?") One piece of local reform lain signed the Locarno Paet; Let me endeavour to answer that remain responsible to the British mal to us again ho will learn Crown and Parliament, as pro- something of bucking horses that which we should like to see in- guaranteeing the Franco-German question with respect both to the posed by the Commission, at least will shock his ingenuous soul.

It was pledges

We tried several systems-with- stituted is the use of more popu-

regional pacte wooped that almilar plovires and the essentials of good until a stable All-India Federat

is established. When that is done out success and risked ton dollars lar and informative language, in the other possible sources of war tegrity of the British Empire.

If we look first for our basic the control of Parliament might to win about fifty cents. the "Objects and Reasons" at-in Europe. But because Britain

Remembering that "the race is would not be a party to them, they principle we shall find it nowhere bo restricted to these casential im- tached to local Ordinances. More have never been afgned. Sir John better expressed than in the perial responsibilities enumerated not to the swift but to the sure":" often than not, there is no state Simon's enquiry on this issue of Government of India's classic des in the Government of India des we backed one or two of the cart patch (para, 225) This would leave horse breed but found that even: ment of the intentions of the regional guarantees implies fur- patch of September, 20, 1980, into the Government of India a con- when they managed to stay the framers of the law or of the ther consideration of Britain's which Lord Irwin and his Council siderable and growing measure of distance they stayed too long do-

Ing it. grounds on which the intentions here and a possible change of the Simon Commission. There independence.

polley their the proposals

3. In the Central and Provincial The race was well over while the are based. For the most part, appreciation of the logic of the (in para. 230) what they call the Governments, Great Britain's part- horse was still arguing with the the "Objects and Reasons are French case in British official cir-that control (British) should he be recognised by adequate British of the money it had laid on itself. "essence" of their proposals la nership in the Indian Empire to starters and demanding a robate confined to laboured legal ex-

of such a nature as to establish representation, not only in the Interviewed afterwards the indign- planations of the origin of var-

partnership in place of subordina- Executives, but in the Legislatures, ant animal protested against the lous clauses. Even these are FRANCE AND BELGIUM altogether meaningless without

and also in all the important Ser-growth of graft in what used to be With this principle of partner-vices. By this provision we sweep M. Barthou's visit to Brussels ship they maintain also the reapon- away all that irritating but futile,

an honourable profession. reference back to previous Or- has strengthened the hand of aibility and control of Parliament par dinances. To the legal profes- France. The Count de Broque- (ace paras.. 19 and 225)

Horse Makes Statement the paraphernalia of Safeguards, Em- sion, this may not greatly mat-ville's recent address

Powers, and Special Res- "It is enough to make one take fer, since the text of the Ordin Belgian Senate telling them that para. 188) they speak not only of White Paper as with broken glass n manicured hoof playfully in our the moet essential matters. Agafu (in ponsibilities, which surround the to the streets," said she tosssing ance sets forth the enactment in they must admit of Germany's a partnership between Great Brit and barbed wire. The safeguards direction. detail, but the newspaper which rearmament caused an alarm notain and India in the Government, will not be external but Internal. A tip from the horse's hoof wae seeks to acquaint the public of justified by the circumstances, but but partnership in the Legislature We thereby promote efficient, Im not what we had come for and we the main features of new-laws inspired by the general feeling of as-cell-as in the Executive, and to partial and stable-administration, left her wrapped in her jacket finds that it is practically im- was expressed in Paris that the nomination. Obviously, also the minorities

Immediately, the fear that and they retain the power of reduce communal tension, protect practising its and starts. possible to obtain from the death of King Albert might loosen principle of partnership which al- Princes to come into a scheme in averages and our losses averaged. and encourago the We tried backing on the law of Objects and Reasons" the real-the close cooperation on foreign ready exists in the Services should which the Sovereign Power is five bucks on each race. ly essential points. It has to be and military policy that has endur- apply to the Executives and Legis-adequately borne in mind that the average ed since the War. It was, of Inture in the Provinces.

culty or represented. The di-tips we lost money and with tips resident and it is he who is course, something of a surprise to These are the views of Lord number in the Legislature to re-way of saying the same thing mostly affected by changes in and the mutual concession thesis Irwin and his Council-four Brit- present the British partner is not One of the hottest nags we pick- the law-seldom

energetically inish and three Indian members-Insoluble.

ed out was drawn for the outside. Government Gazette, in which Brussels. M. Hymans was, how and this fundamental principle of 4. Maintain in nil the important position and she seemed a real

ever, able to assure the drafts of proposed Ordin-that there is no fundamental diver-the three Round Table Confer- Judiciary, Police, Public Works, of her face you could see had de

M. Barthou partnership was not challenged at Services General. Administration, Istraightforward horse. The bits ances are given. He naturally gence in French and Beligian ences. On the contrary, Sir Samuel Irrigation, Forests, Agriculture, termination written all over them looks to the newspapers for his policies. information. Obviously Ordin-

tension.

the aces

口 adopted

ances cannot be reprinted in full | IMPLIED COMPLIMENT

to

by the Press, whilst to discover

The Republican Party in the the respects in which proposed United States by Implication pays new laws differ from those al President Roosevelt a high com- ready in force, or from those pliment. The leaders admit they which it may be intended to re- are waiting for him to make a peal, would often involve so serious blunder before they can much research as to rule out the produce an effective campaigning attempting of the task. The issue for the Congressional elec difficulties may be illustrated by November next. That it has not tions which are scheduled for a reference to the draft Ordin- ance dealing with the entry and appeared after over a year of high speed experimentation and reform departure of persons into and can only mean sound judgment, out of the Colony. Attached to not the luck which is all his critics the law is a table which gives will credit the President with. the sources of the various clauses, some of which are based

on Straits Settlements Ordin- SUCCESS OR FAILURE? ances and others on existing

It is still too soon to pass judg Hongkong laws and regulations ment on. Mr. Roosevelt's pro which are being modified and in-gramme of reconstruction. The corporated in the new Bill. No ultimate criterion must be success difficulty is experienced in trace or fallure, and of that it is likely ing totally new provisions which to be many months before we can do not come within any of these know the issue. Some of his mea three categories, but it is im-siderable scepticiam.

Burca must continue to arouse con- For in- possible to any at a glance stance, the policy of still higher whether, and, if so, to what ex-wages and shorter hours, reiterat tent, some of the other pro-ed in his anniversary broadcast visions represent a change from yesterday, and again the attempt, existing requirements. The not yet apparently, abandoned, to "Objects and Reasons" are no of the exchanges, scom more calcu lover up prices by. manipulation real guide, any more than were lated to retard than to advance the those attached to another recent attainment of his objectives. Bill dealing with a related sub-Mer a rap and extensive Ject, tho registration of

prosperity will be need- persons. The public is oftened to justify the vast burden of reminded that it is supposed to publle debt which he is proposing be fully acquainted with the law, to pile up over the port eighteen Surely the best method of ea success of the system Mr. Roo- months. Nevertheless, while the suring that it is would be to sevelt is creating remains proble utilise all available means for matical, the failure of that which the purpose.

he found is a matter of history.:

|tion."

Without

a sufficient we lost friends which is another

Hoare, at the close of the Third Publie Health, &c. British ele and we heard one of the fraternity (on December 24, 1931) himself ment, adequate to the maintenance exclaim "What n figure!" Wo emphasized this principle of part of the standards of efficiency, Im-didn't know what the figurewhs nership.

(Continued on Lage 4.) but the horse certainly was at-

tractive.

"I think it is a pity, dostor, that you haven't any little

ones of your own.

She got going well from the flag, hit up a tremendous amount of mud from her exhaust in tho atraight, and skidded round the corners on two legs. It was. thrilling alght to see her draw

responding gallantly to the assionate endearments of her jockey. On the last corner she slipped a couple of lengths through looking backwards but who was still lending by about a quarter of a.mile.

Horse Patriotic

The band struck up the National Anthem as she turned on to the last straight run and she lost all but fifty lengths before she started again.

There was still time.

The crowd yelled themselves horse with excitement as ahe crawled near and nearer.

Suddenly she slowed down to a canter. The crowd held its breath a few of them too long. What was the favourite going to do?

Then a great hush fell over the crowd. The horse was risking the race to smell the beautiful flowers that lined the courae on the im portant side of the winning post. She smelt them once,...twice,. thrice whilst a few of the more enduring spectators still held their breaths.

Then as the rest of the nold thundered past the nature lover resumed the race to the tumultu- DUB applause of the cruwub

A race crowd dearly loven a gal lant goatura.A

What happened to the race? The favourite came in first first from the last, kan