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BOOK OF THE DAY:

His Life Story is

Britain's Shame

-N the last twenty years there has been a revolution in India. 'Tho'regime has not changed: the economic system ha not elianged: but the whole outlook of a people has profoundly changed: and that is the essential beglo- ning. Here are two books which. pubitahed by chance at the kame time, sum it all up. Professor Gangulee and Panda Nehru aro men much of an arc.. Both products of the association between Britain and Indle, The Pandit was at Harrow and Trinity: the Professor at Landlo University. The one trained for the law, the other for economics, men of first ralo ability. But men of Wifferent worida.

Both

Professor Congulco's The Making of Federal India (Nobel, 125, Od.), is an admirable, scliolarly work. But every page of it breathes not only seceptance of the British Raj, but deference to Western idend and to British authority. Its closing thought is of the pro- -found' devotion' of all classes of my countrymen to the Crown, the essen- Til link under the new Constitution between England and India."

from

Jawaharlal

Turu

that to Nehru' autoblogmphy, Jawaharlal -Nehru John Lane, 158), and you turn so another world.

Told with a restraint and a quiet dignity which make it one of the great autobiographies of our day, bere is the story of a man who, without hate, without anger, has for fifteen years fought the Briukh Raj: has been beaten and imprisoned: has seen his mother beaten, his wife die of the struggle, his own vitality napped and undermined: and yet goen on.

Because he has learned to question and challenge not this or that detail bul the underlying nasumptions of British rule in India. Why Deluch rule at all? And his revolt is not the petulant outburst of an inferior: it is the calm challenge and the steady fight of a man confident of himself and of His people.

It is a story to make an Euzikshman hot with shame. Por it in the story of How a man who in a free country woul! work hat brett have done valuable

forced to spend most of his best years. in, prísua, nul for any crime, but be- cause of his proud and unswerving

PANDIT NEHRU

"A man who has been bruised and battered."

refusal to nccept the doctrine that it in the Englishman's right to canimand. the Indian's obey.

Nehru went to prison first in 1921, Ilons spent most of his life since in rizon. Yet at any time, bad he yielded, he might havo hnd a great careor, have been by now n Minister, n Privy Councillor. Sir Jawaharlal what you wili.

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For Afteen years the Government of India has tried to brenk this man's spirit. It has failed. It has only con- vinced him that a Government, which devotes tarif to inposing Its will ou lia aubjects, is, for the things that matter. neliber relent nor compe. tent

"The foundations and assump- Vous are all wrong.” Ita basic fune- ons are the prison, the poffee," than

"

The Goverument of India knows how to make the rebels whom it then tries

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936.

to break, In Lucknow jali "a young boy of sixteen was ordered to be forged for a breach of prison discipline. As each stripo fell on ilm and cut into his feah, he shouted, 'Mahatma Gandhi ki Jal. Every stripe brought forth the slogan till the boy fainted. Later that boy was to become one of the leaders of the group of terrorists in North India."

The wippings, the insults, the dreadful boredom of prison,

("One misses many things, but perhaps mont of all one misses the sound of wonten's velees and children's laughter.

Once I remember being struck by n new want. I had not heard A dog bark for eight months"). All served only to -confirm Nehru in his resolution, to con vince him more and more that such n Government was not fit to rule India. - Ho learned the hardest kind of courage lis his first lathi charge,

The police were breaking up a pro- cession in Lucknow.

Automatenlly I began moving slowly to the side of the road, but Ï stopped and had a littlo argument with myself, and decided that it would be unbecoming for me to move away.

+...+

Decision was prompted by my pride, I suppose, which could not tolerate the idea of my behaving like

the line # coward. Yet

between courge and cowardice was a thin one, and I might well have been on the other side."

He alood still while mounted policeamn belaboured him.

"I felt stunned and my body quiv. cred all over, but to my surprise and spilsfaction I found that I was still

standing... The bodily pain was quite forgotten in a feeling of exhillarn- 11on that I with physically trong enough to face and bear Inthi blows."

And so the story goes on. Inter- woven with the record of the fight against the Government in the record of how he came to realise the all-im- portance of the social struggle as well, of the struggle of the peasantry against a tyrannical and extortionate Inndlordism: uf how Nehru the Nationalist became also Nehru the Sortatist

A great book: the story of n man's fight and, interwoven with 1, of a people's struggle. Written by a man who is weary and lonely, who has been bruised and battered, for whom the journey berones more taborious and The summit recedes into the clouds," but who keeps his pride and s courage and a flere honesty with him- self. In the voice of the new India.

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Suzy and Terry have just ru tered his rooms after their marriage when the mysterious woman of the factory shouts In a Terry and disappears. panic, Suzy inakes her escape to Duty Paris, Terry's wound is superficial.

MOVEĘŽIO PROM THE

LUCY HUFFAKER,

and then she would say to hemelt but with the passing days this KIOW less frequent-Poor, dear Terry-to dle when he had so much to live for."

won.

If she had but knows, Terry had a great deal to live for--and no- thing. His stabilizer had proved of greater value than he had hoped for in his most hopeful dreams. ind Money and honour were his.

-aviation not a high officer in the CHAPTER FIVE.

service said to him: "To you will the tap at her go part of the credit for winning Malzle answered

when at last it in the war, door.

This little gadget of yours has revo- she cried, "so you de-lutionized flying." "Suzy," elded-for heaven's sake, what is the matter? Are you "

There was no answer. Suzy had fainted dead away. Maizle started

the concierge to get more.

With Suzy gone, what was doctor, but she was one who be there to care about? He did not Heved in direct action and home know how she had died, but he was remedies first. She hal ehrried,

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The officer wondered why Terry did not look an elated as he might have. He did not know that noth- ing really mattered to Terry any

And grief, thrown herself in the half dragged Suzy to the couch, convinced that she had, in her panic threw

cold water over her, man-Thames on the wight of their mar- aged to open her mouth and pourriage.

her throat. There brandy down

were many adiniring Slowly and

given Suzy as she danced as if reluctantly, Suzy glances came back to consciousness.

and song among the revelers at the answered, "Oh Mazie," she whispered, cafe. She smiled. She hitves

the

most awful thing to tell as best she could in the few French you can anyone hear us?"

"Not a soul in this dump knows words she had picked up mixed with English which often they did not a word of good old United States, know, their laughing, teasing re- kid. But you're not telling anything

murks.

But she was not really in- for a while. You're getting out of terested in any one of them, unti these wet clothes and lying still for one night.

It was the Indifference. not the a while."

But Suzy could not lie stil. The interest of a group of young French human need to tell the horror which aviators, which piqued her. They obsessed her, to confess, would not sat at their table, drinking, laugh- be denied. In "wild

torrent of ing and talking, scarcely looking at words, all she had lived through. In her and certainly not listening, the past twenty-four hours came rushing out. At first Maizie thought she must be delirious from fever, It all sounded so unbelievable, but gradually she knew that all she was hearing was the truth.

"So--now I'm going back," said Suzy

when she had anished." think I lost my mind, but telling you has brought it back."

"You're doing nothing for a while but staying right here," said Malzle

firmly.

"Are we worse than usual?" she asked Malzie. "What's the matter, anyway. Is it us or them?"

"Oh, don't mind them," said Mal- don't know zic philosophically. "I what they're doing here anyway- they belang in sweller places than thin-they're what we of gay Parce call boulevardiers or something of the kind."

Suzy did mind. She didn't par- but ticularly care for admiration, she took it as a matter of course. attention, when she did not have

companions. It

"But I didn't do it, Maizie-1 was a dirty yellow cur to run away. That's even, she was furious. She kept why I'm going back. Can't you see circling one of their tables and not- I must go back? I was a cowardly one of the young men spied her, but I'm not going on being one. She noticed he bent over and snid

hate myself forever. something to his can't. I'd Terry wouldn't have run away and was in French, so she did not under-

me. He was brave and ne left

what stand

it was. She danced and her voice broke,

nt these boulevardiers", whatever "Crazy about him, weren't you?" around again and took a better look sald Maizie softening.

that meant. One in particular-he seemed most unconscious of what was going on and he was certainly

handsomest brought IE mis

glint to her eyes. She

That's the worst of it. I failed him every way."

Of course Maizie won out. For the several weeks, Sazy was so exhaust-chievous

ed that she had to stay in bed. When leaned over, dipped her fingers in a she was able to be up again, she gloss of champagne and flicked it ut neek. At that moment, ale could look at it calmly and agree his with Maizie that there was nothing heard a coln fall on the table to be gained and perhaps a great the men cried: "Andre". deal to lose if she returned to Lon- don. Then she suggested going

home.

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He turned to look at her, and his expression changed. He rose, bowed and and in perfect English: "Won't "That's what we're going to do you stop singing or at least stop a waste-and one of these days. But just now we dancing alone such can't

get passage. We missed our

Without finishing the sentence he chonce when this war-you know

don't you? took her in his arms and they were there is a war on, started and everybody rushed for dancing around the room.

"I wondered what brought me the nearest bout. It'll be over in a

"Now I he said. Jiny, of course

and then back to here to-night," God's country. This little upset is know. From now on, I'll be here playing right into our hands in a every night of my leave, way-if there's one thing a soldier know why.". loves to do it is to spend his money. Why, our dinky little dump is pack and she ed every night and does the money cared so much what his answer!

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cancelling of unless there is a sudden of Terry, at least directly. spoke But the first night that Suzy went leaves. Never know what's going to sing and dance in the cafe, her to happen in this war. But face went white and clutching Mai- forget it. To-night we live. First, zic's orm, she whispered, "Why do

to begin what's going to be a long the English have to have cops in acquaintance, properly let me in- troduce myself. I am Andre Char- ville, of Paris-when I'm not up in the air."

Paris?1

"Don't be silly," sald Malzic, looking at the Englishman who had caused Suzy's panic. "He's some kind of an officer out to have him

remember selt

a good time and Scotland Yard isn't. what might be called exactly dumb

or slow, they'd wanted you, they'd have had ago. Probably knew all you long the time you had nothing to run away for, except fright. Now snap into this number. You're here to make a hit if I have my way, and staring eyes and shaky legs aren't what I'd call an asset."

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"I'm Suzy Trent, of New York- in a Paris when I'm not dancing cafe.

She knew she should goʻta Maizic. It was thine for another duct, but she saw the manager smiling at her. He evidently knew who her partner was, It was worth while to please a young officer like Andre Char- ville.

They danced perfectly together. At Arst that was all Suzy knew. Then she realized that back of her The girls were at the cafe long with that they could go on like this hours and for that Suzy was grate forever, was something else. She ful. She had no time to think of had had other good partners. She her the past. The excitement of all had never felt like this before in they

saw and heard In war-time life. All tho long weeks of work, Paris acted as a tonic for her spirit of bitterness, of homesickness-even which had seemed broken. Now her sorrow about Terry-were as if they had never been. She fell ahe was a new Suzy

Trent. They had been silent for a long time, giving themselves up to the Joy of dancing together, when sud- denly Andre laughed,

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Jean Harlow, at one time in her career, expressed the fear that she had been typed. She was the "platinum blonde" and it was, her. conviction that when her hair was snow white with the years she would still be remembered as the platinum blonde, Miss farlow appears now in "Suzy," which is now at the The following further successes King's Theatre, and her fears are have been registered by Hongkong dispelled. Her hair is the spun

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"I'll keep that coin forever," he sold. "because it brought us to- Rether."

"What are you talking about?" "Didn't you see us flip this coin? Henri saw you first-sald you were dream, suggested we flip a coin to see who should dance with you first. And I

Suzy stopped, wrenched herself MISS

away from him, and with cyca blaz- of An American chorus

ing, struck him on the head with who is stranded in London

all her force. Before he realized just

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that spies shot him and that her quite what had happened, she had The two marriages present a pro-

present husband is Involved with run ncross the room to Maizie. blem which frequently affords con- them. Together, the pair go "Let's get out of here. Right away |

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At that moment, there was n loud in n fest of spectaculor which

indicate her gullt. Believ

is that not only buries the un- explosion and the cafe was in an the terrified heroism to be dead, ing him

To the cellar,", some one, cried. girl runs away to Paris and there, faithful husband with honours, but uproar. after a

a respectable lapse of time, brings the original lovers together remarrids. Her second husband, in insting peace. Miss Harlow is "The air-raids have started."

(To-morrow: Suzy and Andre also

a combat pilot, is unfaithful superb and the supporting players:

meet again before Suzy con salt for New York.)

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