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CALDECOTT'S TASK "MOST UNENVIABLE” "MOST unenviable" was how Mr. Francis F. Cooray described Sir Andrew Caldecott's task of govern- ing Ceylon, in a talk to. the Kuala Lumpur Fortnightly -Club.
As in Hongkong, Sir Andrew has the job of balancing the budget but he has much more than thut to face, said Mr. Cooray. Ceylon's politics always somewhat volatile -are in a tangle, through the attempt to make a too-rupld transition from the Crown Calony system to self-govern- ment.
Sir Andrew's task is that of versely, means that transference of running with the hare and hunt-greater responsibility is projected 1 do not know. Whatever they may ing with the hounds, said Mr.be we are on the eve of political Cooray. It is not, therefore, changes of considerable importance surprising that he should have to Ceylon, and Sir Andrew Calde
dopted as the keynote of his cott will have his hands full in the policy the Sinhalese words hemin years before him. hemin (slowly, alowly).
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The Commissioners' worst feara have been realised but their hopes Ceylon is hard put to it to balance will remain unfulfilled. The
has nothing like franchised illiterate masars, who are her budget. She the million a month surplus of the unable even to make a mark on the F.M.S. Taxation both direct and in-ballot paper much less to read the dirert, is, therefore, fairly heavy. Iname of the candidate on the paper, country is have fallen vielims to the political Although in slightly smaller than the F.M.S. chicanery of place hunters and even the population is more than three fortune hunters. Honest men have times larger. Even then there are become crooks and crooks have tried large tracts which are uninhabited to pose as honest politicians, which, and uninhabitable.
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As in India, so in Ceylon, poverty the standard of is rampant, and living of the large majority of people is comparatively low. Practically the entire export and import trade of the country is in the hands of foreigners.
"A FORLORN HOPE"
Literacy is high in the towns and when poverty and literacy join hands they always create considerable dis- turbance. And that disturbance in the life of the people is evident everywhere.
The Crown Colony form of Government no longer obtains In Ceylon. She has been set on the path of self-government, but self- government appears be a for- lorn hope until and unless the people of Ceylon agree to composaj their differences.
'These differences are not so much political as national and racial.
of
I realise is a contradiction in terms.
STOP PRESS
TUNGYANGKWAN RETAKEN
Linfen, Feb, 22. Tungyangkwan, strategic point on the eastern Shans! border, was TC-
taken by a Chinese mobilo unit on the morning of February 10, it is learned from military sources.
both
It is now nearly tour decades
The retreading Japanese, number.. since Ceylon started her ogitation for political reform. First a Legis ing about 400, have been encircled by lative Council with the Governor as the Chinese guerillas on the bank of president and officials as members, the Manliuhe, north-east of Licheng. then the introduction of nominated where fighting is now in progress. unofficial members who represented Tamaichiao, a point south-west of nobody but themselves, then the Fenyang in west Shans!, was also re- creation of an educated Ceylonese captured by the Chinese on February: electorate with the Cambridge Local 20 after a day's bitter engagement, Certificate as the minimum electoral in which heavy casualties on qualification, then the enlargement sides resulted.---Central News.
f the council and the electorate, and now the half-way house beween a benevolent autocracy and a fully- fledged democracy, the most unique constitution to be found in the whole Empire, with Ministers responsible to nobody, each the star in a small firmament of lesser heavenly bodies, and watched over carefully by the Governor's nominees, the minorities, and three officers of State In the persons of the Chief Secretary, the Legal Secretary and the Financial Secretary.
"UTTERLY INDIFFERENT"
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I have followed this agitation for a quarter of a century, my appeared in the first list of electors. and I was not alone among that first batch of voters who felt utterly Indifferent towards this new-found freedom.
Whatever the vote and the Bellol box may have achieved in England I am sure it has not made the for- cibly enfranchised millions of Cey- Jon ano whit happier than they were before.
However, Ceylon is set on the path of self-government, and when sho achieves it, may, she and something really satisfying and in harmony with her past traditions.
The critics of the present con- stitution are numerous. They are found among all classes and it ap- pears to be the only thing in which all people are agreed. But they aro narced for very different reasons. The minorities say it gives the majorily community too grent n say in the administration; the majority say it does not give them enough. By petition, memorandum and inter- view, the Secretary of State for the Colonies has already been aware of these views.
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bombshell by extending the powers of the Governor and bringing them into line with what obtains in the Indian Provinces. From all I hear the Secretary of State has not taken that step on the advice of Sir Andrew, but
representations made by previous Governors.
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The Donoughmore Commission slute in their report that with the transference of greater responsibility to the people the reserve powers given to the Governor have to
No greater responsibility Increased. has so far been transferred to the people.
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Whether the increasing of the reserve powers of the Governor, con-
SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT
Reassurance For Jews On Austrian Soil
Vienna, Feb. 22.
The Cabinet has deelded that after midnight all demonstrations shall be forbidden, except those of the Father- land Front.
The
Chancellor, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, has been interviewed by leaders of the Jewish community. He
has assured them there would be no change of treatment of Jews-United Prens.
Controlling Rubber Production
HIZATSH APAS,
(531)
London, Feb. 21. 1
An international agreement for the control of rubber production for ave years after the end of the present scheme on December 31, has been published. It is approved by the Internationul Committee, but awaits endorsement of the signatory governments.
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The relative standard of tonnages has been somewhat modified, notably In the case of the Dutch-Indies, which In future will be practically on the same basis as Malaya, while most of the smaller signatories are allotted jincreased tonnages.
New planting to the extent of five: per cent, will be allowed for the first two years, after it will be subject
review
the Committee,-) by Reuter.
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TERUEL SURROUNDED BY INSURGENTS
Saragossa, Feb. 21. The battle for Teruel is continuing. The town is now stated to be com→ pletely encircled by the Insurgente, and many Government troops Bre trapped Inside.
Nationalists.
report numerous desertions to their lines during the night. All road and raft communi- cation with Teruel has been cut off. Router Bulletin.
RUMANIAN FASCIST PARTY DIES
Bucurest, Feb. 21.
M. Comellu Zelen Condreneau, leader of the Rumanian Fascist "Iron Guard," has announced that he has dissolved his party, and is retiring from politics.—Reuter.
ANGLO-EIRE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
London, Feb, 21,
Mr. Eamon Do Valera, President of the Irish Republic, and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for the Dominions, resumed their trade negotiations to-day.—United Preen.
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