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February 21, 1941.

By Walt Disney

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THE

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PIONEER CORPS

The members of the Indian Pioneer Corps are helping to heal the scars of London clear- ing up the mess left by German bombers.

The Commanding Officer of the Corps has the highest praise for them, and after seeing them at work, I agree.

The Colonel led me to a pile of ruins where his Indian Pioneers were working alongside British troops. The Indians and the British worked as comrades, and in rest periods offered each other cigarettes in cordial friendship.

I remarked to the Colonel on his fluent Urdu. He explained that he was in India for over 29 years. "And," he added, "I'm used to the dhal-roti diet as well.

The Colonel loves his men -and-is-proud-of-tham.He Ruddenly stopped and said to me: "See that man working on that pneumatic drill over there? When he first came to me, he did not know anything about the machine; to-day he is an expert-knows his job from A to Z."

He took me to see another Indian who Was cutting through a huge steel girder with an acetylene lamp.

The worker told me how frightened he had been at first at the sight of the myriad sparks which seemed to fly into his face. Now he considers himself master of his "sparki- ing machine", as he deseribes it.

The Pioneer Corps of in- dian Unit was first formed in October 1939.-The Colonel, who had extensive experience of labour conditions and Pioneer work in the Punjab, thought of the idea of organis- ing the Indian labour in Britain for this work when the war broke out.

sea.

The response was instant and splendid. Indian men, hawkers, waiters; fac- tory-workers, packers in ware- houses, students and univer. sity graduates, flocked to en- list in the Corps, and join in the hard work that helps the war effort.

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I think it is the most re presentative Indian organisa- ilon I have ever come across, I talked with Sikhs and Mos- lems from the Punjab and the North-West Frontier; Madra- sis from the South; Assumis from the East: Baboos from Bengal; Mathura from tho the South; Mathurs from United Provinces; and one Bllimoris from Bombay.

They speak different ton- gutes among themselves and

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of the Indian News Service, at present in London as an observer

profess different faiths; but in their work and play they are one-united in 31 Common

cause.

In various parts of Britain they have worked night and day in clearing the debris, res- cuing the injured and extricat- ing the dent buried under the masonry.

"Bombs or no bombs, we go just the same when the call of duty comes," said one of them. He was Kikarajce Bilimori of Bombay, He used to have a nice job with the millionaire family of the Talas; now he works with pick and shovel.

The gong sounded for the mid-day meal. I went off with my Indian friends to partake of their fish, bread and tea.

They get an hour off for their meal which they enjoy to the full. They take an In- dian drum and flute with them, and play after the meni.

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Diwan Ali of Mirpur and Abdul Karim of Benares are the life and soul of this unit. Diwan Ali hus a rare musical

Lalent; he dances and sings to the accompaniment of the drum. He sang for me two of the most popular Indian kara- lees, while Karim played on

In the drum. the midst of bombed London I enjoyed a perfect Indian afternoon.

Abdul Karim is a versatile person. He used to work in a circus, where he performed acrobatic tricks on a silken dord. He has travelled all over Europe, including Italy and Germany.

"When the war broke out,” he said, "I gave up my job; nobody was likely to be in- terested in my

acrobatics when two political acrobats had started their show! I de- cided to do my bit for my Badashuh."

I found that most of them had joined the Corps volun- tarily, and I felt proud of it.

Sergeant Hopkins entered the room to tell his "boys" to resume work.

He is a genial fellow; his skin tanned by the Indian sun. As the men said goodbye to me, the sergeant said proudly: "They are the best workers I know. They are extremely adaptable, and have n fine sense of duty. I think they are rendering the most India valuable service to and to the Empire, and thus helping to cement the bonds of friendship between our peoples."

CHURCHILL

is 'Man of the Year'

Winston Spencer Churchill, British Prime Minister, is named by "Time," the weekly news magazine, as the "Man of the Year" in 1940, This designation is made each year by the editors of the magazine to the man or woman who, in their opinion, has brought dramatic the most about change in the course of history during the previous 12 months.

"The obvious United States candidate for the title was -Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who got himself elected for an unprecedented third term,' the announcement says; "But Franklin Roosevelt's other ac- complishments of 1940 were not breath-taking.

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"On the score of leadership, Wendell Willkie, although a business man, convinced 22,- 500,000 voters that he spoke for a vital cause, performed more strikingly. But in the end Willkic did not succeed in leading his crusade to vic- tory."

"Time" magazine editors. described Mussolini as "the year's greatest flop," and Joseph Stalin as having "lost several teeth before he chewed off an edge of tough little Fin- land," Hitler was more suc- cessful, they hold.

Many "if" were found by them in 1941. Among them was "if Britain still stands at

the end of 1941, Adolf Hitler may be on his way to join the distinguished company of Benito

Mussolini, General Gamelin and Almazan and John Llewellyn Lewis-those men of high hopes who fulled to come through in the crisis of 1940."

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Europeans who "made their mork" in 1940, "Time" magazine editors name the late

Greece Premier Melaxus of

and Ernest Bevin, who became a power of strength in Britain's movement, who rallied labour in Britain's cause, who, became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinction by which Britain nehleved a greater unity to fight her battles."

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"Yet the curious fact was that in most men's minds everywhere even in Germany, to judge by Nazi denunciations--Winston Churchill outranked others as the man of 1040, they declared.

"The man-of-the-year Churchill does not stand alone. Beside and behind. Churchill stands a very small man multiplied a millionfold, he is just an Englishman,

"To the small man of Britain Inj 1940 Winston Churchill spoke words that, may live as long us Shakes- peare's,"

"Let us therefore brace our- selves and so bear ourselves that If the British Commonwealth and Empire last for thousand years, men will still say, this was their Anest hour."

"To the small man's behavior hung the shape of the future. His .civilised toughness, his balanced courago and his simplicity altered the course of history in 1940, With- out him there could have been no Churchil."!

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in 1941 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong.

The number of children assisted last year was 5,100.

A copy of the Annual Report for 1940 may be obtained from:

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JANE BRYAN

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