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DAB and FLOUNDER

By WALTER

By DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS

ALWAYS FIRST:

"HORSE

BOOK OF THE DAY by DANIEL GEORGE

Gus the Great is good fun

-even spread over 670 pages, so far the year's longest novel

man.

GUS THE GREAT," by Thomas W. Duncan. (Sampson Low, 12x. Gd.) UGUSTUS 11. BURGOYNE A

(Gus the Great) was an illegitimate child. He became a His next newspaper

made to step--which is also

natural-was into the entertainment Industry. In the

the of courses

circus duest claimed him.

It suited him down to the ground and up to the big top. Elephants he loved, and after To Molly. elephants women. his first sweetheart. he owed. his dud-chequered carcer. She gave him his first moment of triumph:

to his employing experts in giving short change, and, had they known of it, might have taken exception to his receiving a rake-off from the skilled pick- pockets who mingled with his crowds,

shade.

011ce

INDIA AS THE GREAT

PANDIT NEHRU

POWER IN ASIA

noted letter of to The Times. He argued that Indin should not be allowed a place with- "opportunities for Communists. in the system that implied advan The long civil war between the tages without responsibilities, Dutch and non-Communist Re-

The conference was persuaded could be- publican Indonesians was cited to the view that India by Australia

typical come, largely because of her social

and Mohammedanism, example of "opportunity for stabilty based on the Hindu caste Communista." Uncertainty about system

powerful defence against Commu- the constitutional future of nism itt Asia. While she was gaining Malaya, which has been con- strength, industrially and militarily, tinuous since its re-conquest she asks the support and goodwill from the Japanese, has provid- that comes of association with the ed another opportunity. Frank discussion of the use to which Russia is putting her over- Jarge Embassy in Bangkok was," An article appeared in The Econ- one of the most influential apparently, revealing to the amist. Indian and Pakistan delegations, of newspapers, emphasising this new view of India. I have reason to bʊ- though not Second: the Conference Heve that this article,

inspired by governmental directly suggestion, reflects official views in The article the highest quarters.

destruction argues that, since the

chaotic

Commonwealth must guard publicly in a much against is the creation

$.

London, Oct. 25.

formerly marks, AMERY, Secretary of State for Nehru

DOUBLE NATIONALITY

Commonwealth.

THE NEW VIEW

In

of Japan and the present

the

the

Gus the Grent was

Pandit nat on the

if all that up-and-up, so he went down and

says is to be believed, out. His e-story, as related by

sen change in the Thomas W. Duncan, makes a novel like a pantechuleon loaded hingledy-

Mr Churchill, has foreign polley of India. miscellaneous In-cinte of piggledy with eldents, crawling slowly

across written an article (see Page 4) fact, India has gained a foreign at this conference. America and on and 011 beyond summarising what has arisen policy belief.

vast Its characters are so gifted and at the conference of the Com- Pandit Nehru expressed a great

illuminating that monwealth which he describes determination that his their conduct so

hey sometimes put Gus in the as "the most fruitful." He country, with a population out- Common- finds three great subjects have numbering all the ☆ 郁

been discussed. The second of wealth and Empire, had a lead

within Take Ivan Pawpacker: he hat these is the "cold war" being ing part to play canny horse sense. Glancing at

Russia. Commonwealth system. waged by Communist say nt a mure, he could "Ile hooked her lightly behind whether she was a stump-sucker, As he remarks, there are two in the ear and the immovable ob- subject to the heaves, or shted to ends to the cold war-one

But he no judge

พกง

And in of Europe, one in Asia. Together they the right. ject moved.

men and women. He trusted Gus,

All commentators have ascended the ramp, Molly and who defrauded him, and he married both cases the Commonwealth

countries have endorsed what noticed the dropping of the the plaudits of the multitude. It

my favourite among othe British Government is word "British" from the title was a high hour."

doing. The premiers heard Mr of the Commonwealth in the MacDonald tell them final communique. How much Malcolm of the Malayan troubles.

this significs will not be clear

legislation has has until Naturally very little

parliaments. The solution most considered in London is one of "double nationality"-so that Indians, for instance, would be both Indian subjects and Com- monwealth nationals.

Gus, and together they received than who went mad,

*

**

many was Captain Philip Latcher.

the famous tamer of jungle beasts A Briton and just too frightfully colloquial, old boy, "By jolly!" was his foulest oath. Poor Latcher, 1 was awfully cut up when he got sort of murdered, don't you know.

positively jarred me.

WILD

has gained slate of China. India

the pre-eminent status of Asiatic great power. China the constitution of the United Nations given a place among the big Ave.in that the end of the in the hope Japanese war would give her great strength. That hope has not been fullled. There is no suggestion, of should lose her course, that Chinn U.N. status, but the fact of Com- munist penetration through Chino has left her powerless.

Pandit Nehru's vast country, which could gain even greater strength by a treaty with Pakistan, is in the key strategic position to defend South the structure of government left justice, and tax collection, of respect for law and developed commercial a leading gone Institutions-put her in

place in Asia. These views

studied carefully everywhere "East pressed in The Economist should be of Suez."

cast Asia. And Indians claim that

rule of orderly behind by British

If Gus had kept to elephants all might have gone well with

been revealed of what went on before various Commonwealth Molly he could lead by

him.

the eur: his women led him by the nose. Women and money were the root and flower of all evil in him.

Known, for business purposes, as Honest Gus, he betrayed the trust reposed in him by tinun- cial backers and infatuated females. Like the elephants, they never forgot him-he was such a charming rascal. Having worked on a newspaper, he could quote Omar Khayyam, times correctly.

Others did not succumb to his wiles.

Some forcibly objected

some-

*

in the meetings. They are essentially Cabinet meetings

as the Cabinet. Murder and sudden death of other and as secret less attractive characters conclude But some general trends have this prodigious and pleasingly pre-come to the cars of this writer. posterous story. now almost 60 after 670 pages, goes marching on, his face towards the American West. "Ile had scraped bottom in '32, but now he was on his way up."

But Gus himself,

I feel that one portly book aboul It proves that in him is enough. a world full of quarrel, of trouble, contention, and strife, it is best on But I knew that respectable life. the whole to be moral, and lead before.

The way affairs are turning for the Commonwealth in Asia is worth examining in the light of these reports.

The discussions on Asia were made Infinitely easier by the relaxation of tension due to India's changed view- it is First: the distinction that points towards Britahand

hoped, towards Pakistan. made that in Southeast was

This

tendency at the Common- Asia pure Russian Communism

wealth Conference is directly con- not an immediate danger. trary to the views Captain L. D. is What these countries in the Ganumans expressed

forcibly and

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

CX-

In the final paragraph of Mr L. S. Amery's article he asks that "public opinion throughout the Common-

our

must see to it that wealth governments come out frankly and permanent wholeheartedly for policy of mutual aid."

Such a polley would surely make Indin a powerful industrial state within two generations and remove, it is hoped for ever, the "opportunities for Communism," in all the vastly populated lands that lie to the south and east of Russia.

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