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James

CALCUTTA.

HE little Bengali doctor drove in the needle

Cameron

cabling from Calcutta on

and another 2,000 million vibria cholerae his journey home, gives

began their tedious march round the blood-

stream, to join their colleagues of typhoid, typhus, you his latest impressions aiready on duty slaving off the more dreadful of the strife-torn Dominions

para-typhoid, tetanus, smallpox, and yellow.fever

inconveniences of tropi-

cal travel.

Our

of

"The serum is own," said the doctor. "Indian made, one our good things. Our railways may be indif ferent, our locks inetli-. clent, our policemen may be less thin wonderful, but this you must hand to the New India- our cholera is the best in the world."

I see here

that dread

rehearsal again

Fortißed. one could walk almost confidently into Chowringhee, best known of all streets in the East to a hundred thousand wartime soldiers from Aber deen to Arkansas. As always. it swarmed. Shrill and abon- doned shoeshine boys, beggars clamorously displaying their monstrous disfigurenients, ven- dors of US Army surplus socks, tin toys, old magazines

Bitle heroin if you fell the need.

Stink, confusion. garbage, crowd. Humanity does not in- habit Calcutta, it infests it. You can still get a meal in Firpo's, you can still buy band whisky in the world's serond- worst hotel, you can still collect anything from a Gurkha kukri to a dose of plague along those noisome pavements. The second eity of the Empire is still, bar none, the most absorbing and squalid place on earth.

The impasse

IN Calcutta, Hindus and as- lems mingle and wrangle în peace and profit, while their rival propagandists and papers spit venom and rancour. Every one stands to gain by pence, everyone thinks in terms of future strife. Their rations may be small, their clothes may be thin, but their anomalies ure the biggest in the world.

Right now you have trouble in Palestine, in Greece, a mad

Germany sent to help Franco, per- political ideas, and a sufficiency of mitted to march to prevent nu fudin coup in Kashmir.

if

another; One thing begels Pakistan could use the tribesmen as a sword-arm India would send the Sikhs, most loathed of all people by the Kashmir Moslems. And battle may go on for mouths.

Meanwhile, what does it all menn to Basle India-the real, deep, un- reachable, inarticulate, sprawling. uncaring, and ignorant multitude

of 400,000,000 brings on Apwards both sides of the frontier whose life goes on in spite of and unheeding of the bitter casuistry of New Delhi? The answer is, of course, next to nothing.

New mouths Tik peasant who is 92 percent, of

India, has not the time nur wit 10 follow these antics; funtl atid landlord and the moneylender, are drink, malaria and hook-worm, the

the factors of his life.

He

not does

care about The monstrous babucracy of the cities which now makes the most triffing encounter with officialdom a thing of interminable and terrifying in

tricacy and delay.

of

He lives and dies and his seed multiplles-even now India's. papu- lation is increasing at the rate nearly one percent, per year; some 3,000,000 new mouths to feed from every harvest.

incorruptible men to administer popular policy.

A

"In not one of those things does India measure up. So do not bore me with foolish talk."

"Ant let us not be too sinug about I," said the man who had been the Political

teal agent. "After 150 years of rule we left a country where only one man in 12 can write his name, If India is tormented by birth pangs of independence, let us be sad vi

or even

for regretful

angry, but God's sake let us not be triumphant,

NOW

'Sudetenland'

the Punjab-the JOW uver

easy Sudetenland between Dominions-there has arisen

"Stop trying to catch mermaids, Grogan! We need food!"

VITA

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber ·

hours

to pass,

Dill

the

and that includes

An important ȚITA BREVIS was entertain thee.

ing a few friends to a glass House often takes as long as three un-of sherry when the Maharajah sometimes as much no two hours' two of Dhurtipore was announced, discussion and debate. The Minis- this in

Bubblebloving and came Faulemugh, andis try

folk legend of bitterness, this buil

brenth

{

neighbour policy, which is only guised, and wearing a Leander Society for General Purposes

No- tie. from the w) to war. body knows why nobody goes buck

Poor Vita tried

work much more quickly.”

to ex-

crowded

to first couses any more. And the plain, but those who had heard Down Whitebait Alley

1111 Mountbatten the has gone when could enery of a menacing situa-round. tion with a coup de theatre,

of India. not Governor-Generat Pakistan--that is Mr Jinnah's job,

Governor-Generals

I

spoken

Mrs. "He's white," said

Bawil.

the

can

This is a first step in the relaza- tion of control of fish distribution in that land merchants will no longer be tied to named coastal wholesalers

To be Governor-General of either Foulenough heard her, and replied: Dominion now in strictly a partisan "Yes, I am the only white Maharajah for the supply of white fish but will be free to buy white fish from any political appointment and Mount-1 Europe. My ancestors were albino butten's Indin is the India of New Red Indians.”

He then banged his coastal wholesaler.

(Ministry of Food circular for the Delhi,and Congress, indeed it could hand over his mouth and uttered the scarcely be otherwise.

those two quavering cry of the scalp-hunter. Press.) The confrontation of

18 $1 strange Presently an elderly gentleman said: equation: Mohammed Ali Jinnah and "You rowed much for Leander, sir?" CINCE there is no punctuation (to save paper) this could be pass- Lord Mountbatten inflexible pollti-"I hardly ever stopped," said Foul-

one of those go-ahead cat purpose against the winning way enough. "Did you know Cresswell?" ed off as

"He noems people admire so much today, and the cultivated charm, legaltatie asked the elderly gentleman. fanaticism against adrakt diplomacy, fagged for me at Leander," answer- But it is not us obscure as most ed Foulenough. The gentleman re- modern poetry. The whole point prejudice versus a profile,

to grasp is that Freedom har begun Meanwhile, I see the lost old man treated, muttering.

to come striding back. Before we and the baby on Ambala airfeld, the

is what we (which is where of creaking columns speak

of wordless, re- The explanation

don't know, anyhow)

seaside sald л Suntes fugees on the endless roads

merchants Suct,

will no longer

At that rate the problem gets out of the realms of politics and be

inexorable CUMON A mintter of arithmetic.

Democracy

«<

ND

A democracy?"

how

сав

you

the

SKED why men

like C.

we are

Ash

be tied

situation developing between Minister from Central India to me. patient vulture like a speck in the Esq., didn't go into Parliament, to unnamed inland wholesalers for

America and Russia. All these things have a precedent.

But this is the first time in the long and intricate career of the British Empire when you have two Dominions drifting i erratically and without purpose to a lunatic condition, when Fascism or war, or both, will be the simplest way

out of an Lintolerable impasse.

-

Their

"Democracy In the Western sense sky, demands three fundamental 10.

past may be great, their a prominent nonentity said; "Be the supply of grey fish but will be grey lish from any quisites:

some future may be great, too, but their cause they can make regulations for free to buy literate people, nation-wide method of propagating present is the saddest thing on earth. the public without having to waste named inland wholesaler.

A

HOW TOMMY ATKINS GOT HIS NAME

came to

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He

were

on

him

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THE need for revival for the surprised when. instead of auswer- blue and yellow houses by the canal French had crumbled away before THE

Duke had thrust blinking in the morning sun, the them, and the cavalry had drawn Regular--and Territorial ing offhand, the

oflike a trail of mist. The day "his care" inlo "the" "path" of broken distant spires-of-Bora-le-Duc Those slogans

Armies has again focused shells, and had then looked steadily His regiment, the 33rd, a corps was won. public attention

Tommy out to sea.

of veterans, stood in reserve.

Wellesley rode back to where, LISTEN to India today, the Atkins, How the typical sol- The great Duke stood without a knew that his oficers were waiting

and the young

on the ground which his regiment bitterness and contumely and dier

officer to see how the boy colonel would known movement,

regiment under Before those eyes, which handle his

fire. had held, were little groups about waited. threats, and there is only one by that name is explained in lonked over the rim of the world, fis

12 first experience was to be men who had fallen. The men of analogy that fits. This is like the following interesting article, was unrolling a vast panorama of trying one. The French were in se band were already busy with the Europe before the war.

taken from a history of the all the gallant dreds he had seen superior force, and in the cloud of stretchers. He rode to where the Even the oratorical platitudes Take of Wellington's Regiment. done in war. The was searching in smoke before him he could see that right of the line had been. The great Duke of Wellington a memory stored with recollections the first line of the British

There are the same: "Just territorial

Firing still,

the ground lay the for the man who should beat typify being pressed buck.

pride of the rank and file, the demands," "intolerable suffer-stood on the path which runs round

the dogged gallantry of Britain's turning at any point of vantage. right hand man of the Grenadler ings of our minorities," "ad-the ramparts of Walmer Castle and

private soldiers.

giving way; the red coats were yet giv

Thomas Atkins. Slx lookree! out to sea. The day Was

at Company. the French light troops flung

foot three he stood in his stockinged justment of frontiers," "appeal

them to complete the disaster were to reason or the sword." Both of splendid sunshine--it was at the Commencement of the July of

almost in the British ranks, and on feet; twenty years he had served

His Majesty; he could neither

read siles speak in terms of power, | 1843—unit the old soldier, at home

the left a squadron of French think in terms of power. The by the seaside. bad put on chattes, BEFORE him, as in a picture, pas envalry cantered, waiting an oppor nur write; he was the best man-at-

theed that desperate light to hold

arms in the regiment, and one of the tunity to charge. only thing that keeps them out nattkeen and duck, sultable to

One mind his day. He stood one foot on the ear- Hougomont, and then

toutest hearts in the world. of trouble is that, so far, they riage of one of the little carronades, travelled back to the olive groves and

of the bandsmen who stood by had! bound up his head where have no power.

leaning lightly on a Maluces rame, the vineyards of Spain; to the snow- Pyrenees, and the purple

sabre had slashed him, he had The land-grabbing like and his eyes, looking over the sea, tonnel

woods THEN young Wellesley put the dis bayonet wound in his breast, and a Junagadh. The

economic seemed to gaze beyond the horizon, ridges and the black cork

cipline of his regiment to one of ballet of Portugal. Tie full again that

through als lungs. He had warfare.

not to move blockades-like Hyderabad, The

ripping of the heartstrings he had severest tests known in

rayed the bearers holstering of repression by big

endured as the thin stream of red At the word of cominand every him, but to let him die in peace business. The myth of racial

crawled up the rocky cliffs company swung back into column- superiority. The private armies, YEAR him, and little behind hin, lato the Seminary at Oporto; he leaving thus wide lanes through where he had falien.

saw the danelns British bayonets

Wellesley looked down on him, could the secret drill. The talk of

sorrow in the firing line

retire. Grimed and the man saw stood at attention a young stalkie as they came to the charch the hard-pressed troops in the officer of the Adjutant-General's referendums, knowing that any Department, in undress uniform. t

in with powder, cursing in anger, the young commander's face. Busneo; he looked again

"It's all right sir." he said in ganps. referendum in India or Pakis-He had brought some papers down imagination on the dreadful breach men dashed through and, like clox- Hutes, the companies of the

And it's all in the day's work." for the signature of the Cominan held by the dead at Budejos. But ing ian could be faked in a couple der-in-Chief, for Hill was dead, and no one name came to his mind more allant old 33rd swung back again then

the blood gushed out of his clearly than

into line. for

another,

so mouth. the Duke had been reappointed

Travelling ever backwards, meni- close on them that some of the men life to the commiand; and before

were bayoneted before the word to carrying the documents back to ory curried him to a blazing London, he had asked a question, and scorched plains to the savage fire was given.

Thrice the Brown Besses spoke-- small matter of detail, which storm of Assaye, and to the fierce the War Office thought should, as a fight in the darkness before Serin volleys as steady as though the re- THE great Duke turned

10 the gapalam; but still the

hegiment were fring on inspection young staft officer. "Thomas At- name complement. be referred

The officer Commander of the Forces. A name searched for did not come

parade-and then the word to ad- kins," he said shortly. Now he was in the Low Coun- vance was given, and with bayonets saluted typical of the British soldier was NOBODY would suggest that the typ

Kashmir invaders are Pakistani required on the model sheet of the tries on his first campaign, fighting fixed the 33rd moved forward to sound of his footsteps on the path the Duke turned onec. troops Just 18 nobody saw the soldiers' accounts to show where his first action. He saw again the take up the ground from which the died away

clear, rainwashed bluc of that other regiment had been forced to more to the sea. Wehrmacht in Barcelona.

the men should sign. 'It seemed, a

The three volleys hadi The tribesmen are nevertheless un- ridicucusly unimportant mutter to September sky, the line of wind retire. commonly like the "tourists" that the young staff oilcer, and he was mitts on the horizon, the pink and done their work. the ranks of the

of minutes, and would be.

And, cleanest parallel of all, the dress-rehearsal war that is now going on in Kashmir. Kashmir is Spain.

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