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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936,

BOOK OF THE DAY &

His Life Story is

Britain's Shame

N the last twenty years there has been a revolution in India. The regime has not changed: the economic system has not changed: but the whole outlook of a proplo las profoundly changed: arid that is the essential begin- ning. Here are two books which, published by chanco at the same time, dum it all up. Professor Gangulce aji Pandit Nehru are men much at an age Both products of the relation between Britain and.. Killa, The Pandit was at Harrow' and Trinity: the Professor at London University. The one trained for the Inw, the other for economics Both me of frat rale ability, But men of different worlds.

Professor Onngulco's The Making of Federal India (Nabet,-128. 04.), is an admirable, scholarly work. But every nge of it breathes not only acceptance 'at the Britah Raj, but deference to Western Ideas and to British authority. Its closing thought in 'of "the pro- fbund devotion of all elnases of my edantrymen to the Crown, tho ccacn- Ein link under the now Constitution between England and India.”

* from

that to

Jawaharlal

Turn Ifchru's autobiography, Jawabarini Nehru (Jolin Lanë, 106.), and you turn to another world.

Told with a restraint and a quiet dignity which make it one of the great tobiographies of our day, here is the story of n man who, without bato, vellhout anger, has for fifteen years fought the British Raj: has been beaten and imprisoned; has seen his mother beaten, his wife dle of the Alruggle, hila own vitality capped and undermined: nnd yet goes on.

Because he bas learned to question and challenge not this or that detall but the underlying assumptions of British rule in India. Why British

role at all? And his rovalt is not the petulant outburst of an Huferior: It is the calm challenge and the stendy fight eľ a man confident of himself and of his propld.

It is a story to make an Englishman hot with shame. For it in the story of how a man who in n free country woukt have done valuable work has been fareed to spend most of his best years In prisim. not for any erime, but un- cause of his proud and unswerving

PANDIT NEHRU

A man who has been bruised

and battered."

refusal to accept the doctrine that it is the Englialman's right to command, the Indian's to obey.

Nehru went to prison first.In. 3021. He has spent most of his to since in prison. Ye at any time, hnd he ylelded, he might have had a great carcer, have been by, now a Minister, a Privy Councillor, Sir Jawaharlal what you will.

For Bfteen years the Government of India has tried to break this pian's spirit. It has falled. It has only con- vinced him that a Government, which devotes itself to imposing Its will on ita subjects, s. for the things that malter, neither, efficient nor compe. tent. The foundations and assump- Lions are all wrong." Ila "basic func- 1ts are the prison, the pollee. the army."

The Government of Indla knows how to make the rebels whom it then tries

to break. In Lucknow fail " young boy of sixteen was ordered to be flogged for a breach of prison discipline. As each stripo fell on him and cut into his flesh, 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 lenders of the group of terrorists in North India."

The whippings, the Insults, the ("One dreadful boredom of prison. misses many things, but perhaps most of all one misses the sound of women's voices and children's laughter. .... "Once I remember being struck by a new want. had not heard a dog bark for eight months”). All served

confirm only to Nehru in his resolution, to con vinco him more and morɑ that ruch a

* Goferntment was not fit to rule India.

If learned the hardest kind of courge in his Orst lathi charge.

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

"Automatically I began moving „slowly to the side of the road, but I stopped and bad a lililo argument with myself, and decided that it would be unbecoming for me to move away.

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"Decision was prompted by my prite. I suppose, which could not tolerate the idea of my behaving like I coward, Yot the lins between courage and cowardice was a thin one, and I might well have been on the other side."

He stood still while Д mounted policeman belaboured him.

"I felt stunned and my body quiv- ered all over, but to my surprise and antisfaction I found that I was still standing... The bodily pain was quito forgotten in a feeling of exhitata- (on the Awad physically stron enough to face and bear lathi blows." And to the story goes on. Inter- woven with the record of the fight against the Government is the record of how he came to realise the all-in- portance of the social struggló as well. of the struggle of the peasantry against a tyrannical and extortionate landlordisin: of how Neliru the Nallonatia became also Nehru tho

Socialist

A great book: the story of n inan's Aght and, interwoven with it, of a people's struggle. Written by a man who is weary and lonely, who has been bruised and battered, for whom the Journey becomes more laborious and the summit recedes into the clouds," but who cepa his pride and his courage and a force honesty with him- self. It is the voice of the new India.

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Susy

Suzy and Terry have just en- after their tered his rooms marriage when the mysterious woman

of the factory shoots

Int Terry and disappears. panic, Suzy makes her escape Parts. Terry's wound is only superficial.

CHAPTER FIVE

Malzle answered door,

to

LUCY HUFFAKER

and then she would say to herself -but with the passing days this Krew

less

frequent "Poor, dear Terry-to die when he had so much to live for."

I she had but known, Terry had a great deal to Hve for-and no- thing. His stabilizer had proved of greater value than he had hoped for most hopeful dreams. it in

Had Money and honour were his. not a high omcer in the aviation nervlee said to him: "To you will

won. the tap at her part of the credit for winning

The officer wondered why Terry did not look as ciated no he might have. He did not know that noth- ing really

when at last it is tho wor This little gadget of yours has, revo- she cried, "so you de-tutionized flying" "Suzy," elded for heaven's sake, what is the matter? Are you--"

There was no answer. Suzy had

mattered to Terry any fainted dead away, Maizie started

to get ma to call to the concierge

With Suzy gone, what was doctor,

but she was one who be there

to care about? He did not lieved in direct nction and home remedies first. She half carried, know how she had died, but he was convinced that she had, in her pante couch, and grief, thrown herself in the half dragged Suzy to the threw cold water over her, man-

Thames on the night of their mar- riage. aged to open her mouth and pour her throat, a little brandy down

came back to consciousness,

"Oh Muzic," she whispered, "I bave the most awful thing to tell you can anyone hear us?"

more."

There

were

many

admiring

Slowly and as it reluctantly, Suzy glances given Suzy na she danced

smiled. She and sang among the revelers at the cafe. She

answered, as best she could in the few French words she had picked up mixed with English which often they did not know, their laughing, teasing re- marks. But she was not really in- terested in any one of them, until one night.

It was the indifference, not the interest of a group of young French aviators, which piqued her. They sat at their table, drinking, laugh ing and talking, scarcely locking at her and certainly not listening.

"Are we worse than usual?" she

Maizie.

de, "What's the matter, asked

Is it un or them?" nnyway,

"Not a soul in this dump knows a word of good old United States, kid. But you're not telling anything for a while. You're getting out of those wet clothes and lying stil for a while." But S

Suzy could not le st. Tho human need to tell the horror which obsessed her, to confess, would not be denied. In n wild torrent of words, all she had lived through in the past

twenty-four hours came rushing out. At first Malzle thought she must be delirious from fever,

Oh, don't mind them," said Mai- it ait sounded so unbelievable but gradually she knew that all she was zic philosophically. "I don't know

what they're doing here anyway hearing was the truth.

"So-new I'm going back," said they belons; in sweller placed than Suzy, when she had finished. "I this-they're what we of gay Parce call boulevardiers or something of think I lost my mind, but

the kind." you has brought it back."

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

hate

telling

Suzy did mind. She didn't par- care for admiration, but ticularly she took it as a matter of course. "But I didn't do it, Maizle was When she did not have attention a dirty yellow cur to run away. That's even, she was furious. She why I'm going back. Can't you see circling one of their tables and final- I must go back? I was a cowardly one of the young men spled her. 1 She noticed he bent over, and said but I'm not going on being one. can't. I'd

myself

forever, something to his companions. It Terry wouldn't have run away and was in French, so she did not under- was. She donced and fine stand what it

around again and took a better look at these "boulevardiers", whatever that meant. One in particular-he

of

what seemed most unconscious was going on and he was certainly the handsomest-brought

to glint

her

eyes. leaned over, dipped her fingers in a glass of champagne and flicked it at neck, At that moment, his heard a coin fall on the table and the men cried: "Andre".

left me. He was brave and her voice broke,

"Crazy about him, weren't you?" said Maizie softening.

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

chicvnus

Of course Maizie won out. For several weeks, Suzy was so exhaust chi ed that she had to stay in bed. When she was able to be up again, she could look at it calmly and agree with Mulzie that there was nothing to be gained and perhaps a great deal to lose if she returned to Lon- dor. Then she suggested going home.

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He turned to look at her, and his expression changed. He rose, bowed and said in perfect English: "Won't singing or at least stop you slop

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troduce myself. I am Andre Char- "Don't be silly." said

Maizie, ville, of Paris-when I'm not up in looking at the Englishman who had the air." caused Suzy's panic. "He's some "I'm Suzy Trent, of New York kind of an officer out to have him- when I'm not dancing in a Poris

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They danced perfectly together, make a hit if I have my way, and

that was all Suzy knew. staring eyes and shaky legs aren't At first

Then she realized that back of her what I'd call an asset."

The girls

were at the cafe long wish that they could go on like this

was something else. hours and for that Suzy was grate forever,

Sho ful. She had no time to think of had had other good partners. the

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

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