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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946.

A FABULOUS JOURNEY

By PAUL HOLT

Labour,

THE DEADLOCK IN INDIA

-by

THE RIGHT HON. L. S. AMERY

formerly Secretary of State for India

THE issue created by the dead. In order to make this possible they

-lock between the Indian Inld down. in their memorandum leaders is of the gravest charac-of May 10 that the Constituent As- ter in its possible effect not only sembly should begin by dividing it-

selt into secllons, two of which, one, upon India and the British Em including the three provinces of the pire but also upon the peace of North West and the other the two the world.

On the other hand, it is not an issue of party politics in Britain.

provinces of the North East, namely Assam and Bengal, should be free If they wished to constitute a group or groups and so satisfy at any rate the grenler part of the Moslem demands. Mr Jinnah accepted these pro- Congress did the same a

The policy of accepting complete Indian self-government initiated by the Act of 1935, was carried to its posals. The country, still flushed and ex-logical conclusion without a dissen. little later, but with the reservation TOOK a fabulous journey. It THE Santa Fe Chief climba quickly

started in grey sea rain on from the orange groves of Cali-elted by the elections, is looking for tient voice in Parliament while I was that they did so subject to their own

wille Secretary of State, and the efforts interpretation. fornia towards the wild, gloomy, a showdown with

Cabinet Misalon in

The Cabinet Mission, unfortuante- the Pacific coast and wandered Disneyish passes that wind and President Truman, who no longer has of the, present through snowstorms, high squirm upwards along the old Pony a party majority in either. House, India have only been concerned with ly, I think, allowed this reservation

putting that policy into effect.

to pass without insisting on a quite winds, and bright and tropical Express trail through New Mexico dare not be conciliatory.

Lewis, inscrutable, does not show There would be little difficulty in clear compliance with what they in- sunshines, ending on the Atlan and Indian Territory.

the issue the way of the mediale establish- tended to be the working out of their tic in crisp frost and a partial

any sign that he fears ahead. He knows you cannot dig ment of complete Indian indepen-scheme.

dence whether within or without the eclipse of the sun.

coal with bayonets,

British Commonwealth If India were |a single homogeneous people.

Nor would

heat nor For

I felt no pain, neither cold, nor wind nor drenching three days I sat at ease, hermetically scaled In an nir-conditioned Aluminium biscuit tin, crowded with pretty gadgets to play with.

This was called n drawing-room on the world's most famous train, the Santa Fe Chief, running daily between Los Angeles and New York.

And on and up again past the Petrified Forest to the pinnacles of Raton Pass, where Kit Carson fought

the Indians.

In Colorado the idle miners sit on their front porches.

As I understand it, the Congress Interpretation now is that the sections would not be free to vote by a ma-

great there be very

The flat peaks seem lonely with out Indian smoke signals, and the steely snake of this train with its scarlet nose thrusting along the pass will bring back wartime binckouts difficulty if: the main division be. Jorily of the representatives taking fan poor substitute for

covered wagons.

the old

There, sulky crags ignore us. They despise the train as much as they despise these tiny settlers' shocks that eling to their shoulders. Not even in Rusia, in the Arctic wastes below Murmansk, did I Ree such humble homes, built of wood,

THE LORDLY ONES— THE aristocrats of radio and Holly-null and a prayer.

wood use it no casily as a stock- broker travels from Redhlil to Waterloo. They are great snobs and autocrats, and you have to mind your manners in their company.

Thus it is proper to arrive at the clad, station decently and suberly but as soon as the Chlef starts to move, the world is shut away from

you,

high-priced

You may be sure that they are not concerned that their Idleness

pro- to American cilles, slow transport, tween the Indian peoples coincided part, but that the representatives of

geographical or any particular province, as a shut down steel mills, and cause with any natural

vince, are to be free to veto the economie division.

formation of a group. thousand other unhappinesses.

They simply calcuinte how long their credit will hold out at the vilinge stare.

CLEAVAGE THE dimeulty lies in the intensity of the cleavage between the

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over

In other words, the Hindu majority.

In Assam could veto the formation of

They are vaguely aware that pub- alic sentiment is against them, but Moslems and Hindus and in the fact the Eastern group and the Congress stand by Lewis, who may be able that both elements live intermingled minority in the North West frontier to call for a general strike in sym-in varying proportions

the province practically veto the forma "In each one of those shacks,"

pathy.

whole of a sub-continent which, frtion of the North Western group. says the cynic who has come to visit,

AN We came to the plains, and peace, the purposes of defence in the mo-

INTERVAL "there probably lives a GI bride."

This same cynic is deeply in-Through the black, ploughed soil of dern world as well as for the pur- terested in, the recent House of Com- Missouri and linols, where

poses of trade and communications mons vote on foreign affairs. He is frame houses grow grander

hundred miles, and the burns is essentially a single unit. sure It bodes no good for Attice.

brighter.

"All those abstentions. Wasn't that the way they got Chamberlain out in 1940 to make way for Chur- chul?" I tried to explain that the parallel was imperfect.

don benuttes The

He said it was like sending the slacks and bright sweaters, the Prime Minister to Coventry: I said, agents, producers and promoters contrariwise. wear coloured shirts and fancy bags and, moccasins.

AMERICA'S MOOD

the every

When the Hindu majority ns re- SEEKING A SIGN presented by the Congress Party de munds, an effectively centralised RODE down from Chicago to the Government for the whole of India castern seaboard through the

night. A night that was a hell of they are demanding something which glowing steel furnaces and a pretty Moslem ooinion is not prepared to heaven of coloured moving lights-tolerate. a Christrins land of Neon-lit rein- deers in the sky.

I would in effect frustrate the of the whole whole purpose Cabinet Mission scheme, and it is not surprising that in view of this Mr Jinnah is reluctant to agree to his followers allending the Constituent Assembly.

Fortunately the opening of the As- sembly is purely formul, and the more serious business of getting down When, on the other hand, Mr Jinto the sections is not likely to take ah, leader of the Monlem League, place for some months.` demands a division of India into two

So back to New York and the aun eclipse. The shuttling crowds. They play gin runny Intermina-RY this time night had fallen on the skles. Nature receded. Ra- bly, and hold cynical little bonating in club-car and lounge blared now muffled against a biting wind. completely separate countries he is! parties in their

stare at the sky as though looking for a partent, à sign.

private drawing-Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet," rooms during which much liquor is and Ethel Merman's "Doing what swallowed and many reputations comes naturally" without favour. tawdried.

Cards were face upwards on the Notable in this exclusive company table and a full house was beat. ing two pairs, as is right and pro- arc the name-mentioners. These

pur, come in two categories. The hum-

Dawn came and we were sitting bler ones talk all the time about

Colorado and on the shoulder of what Gable said to Garson and what

rending the newspapers, which told they said to Peck.

us that America is in danger of re- beillon.

The lordly ones who are terrible -talk of Clark and Greer and Gre- gory...

AND THE MATRON

THE fabulous journey took three days less two hours, and in that time the world lumbered over three times and many strange things happened,

Aloot from the throng rode Miss Joan Crawford. She had in her

charge two lively, tow-headed chil-

I do not exaggerate. Both spark and mood are there. John L. Lewis ngain defled 'the' Government ***In calling out 400,000 soft-coal miners,

the main body of

That provides at any rate an in- . asking something not only difficult terval during which agreement can from the practical point of view but still be found. fiercely resented by the Hindus und 18 Everywhere you go there

Meanwhile one can only hope that during these months the coalition feeling of something about to hap no less by the Sikhs who would be

executive, In which both parties. pen. The people want something to separated from happen, but they don't rightly know Hindulsen. what it is they want. So in the

share at the centre, will continue, It was in these conditions that the and that, face to face with the im- meantime they continue ta enjoy themselves, to spend more than they Cabinet Mission devised an ingenious mensely difficult problems of India's have got.

compromise under which there should future and with the abyss of civil a Central Government inainly war before them, they will still be Turkeys are plentiful, and liquor be

to is plentiful if you have got the price confined defence and foreign able to come to some sort of agree-

while a night club clown called policy, while at the same timo pre- Joe E Lewis sings little song dominantly Moslem provinces should ment which sums everything แม่ very be able to form themselves into neatly. There isn't any money in groups exercising all the remaining money any more," he sings.

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely. Culbertson)

To-day's deal strikingly illustrates dren over whom she fussed in a how a master declarer, anticipating matronly and determined way feed- : ing them big spoonfuls of cod liver the non-break of a key suit, sets up oll and blowing their noses.

an alternative plan.

She took no notice of her fellow- travellers and they took no notice of her.

I left Hollywood in a downpour Two and a dither and a ferment. of her favourite

Goldwyn sald that he had grown fat-cat con- tented and if she doesn't stop licking her buttered paws and start roaming in search of new mice there's a cold, cold alley awaiting her.

to her. Uncle Sons had been rude

Walter Wanger, a London lad from Whitechapel who had grown rich by Kantosica producing endless gooey

called Arabian Nights, said that Bri- tish pictures were to-day earning 20 per cent. more in Britain than Hollywood pictures.

Although neither of these gents was being serious about it, their rich confreres began acting hurt and in- dignant, and such ugly words as "traitor Alled the air..

For here is the issue clear and strong, Hollywood to-day does not pride herself on being good, but on giving the public what it wants and wants.

And this has been achieved by of the most complicated systems polls and straw-ballots, quizzes and all quests and competitions, and kinds of Intrusions into the private life of America.

On the ethics of this method I argued one night until 3 am with one of the greatest producers" of the day. Carey Wilson, who is now busy on "Green Dolphin Street,"

Mr. Wilson won. Ile antid: "I Christopher Wren had thought the British public wanted tall, skinny churches he would have built toll. Altinny churches. If he had thought they

would worship better in fat, dumpy churches he would have built them. If the public had asked for two minarets on the top of St Paul's he would have put them there. That is all I am doing-to- day."

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3-3 break of the outstanding diamonds, he became all the more determined not to slake everything on that chance. Perhaps he couldn't protect himself-but then again, maybe he could!

South drew the necessary three rounds of trumps, then carefully led the spade queen through West, who was marked with the king for his opening bid. West covered, and the ace won. Now another diatnond

top was cashed and the expected break was revealed. Declater returned to his own hand with a trump and eashed his last trump, discording dummy's spado

East five. Anished! He knew that South

had another diamond to reach dummy, hence Enst had to hold two din- monds to stop the suit; but when ho discarded his apnde fuck, South of course cashed the spade ten,

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