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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.

TYLES

"Then when Russia and the States have finished atom-bombing each othor. we come in with the Home Guard."

Landod Express sornice

THE

TWO

IMPERIALISMS

S an illustration of the

difference

between By WOODROW WYATT, M.P.

Western thought and practice and Russian thought and practice, there is hardly a better field than that of Imperialism. On the face of it some of the Wes- tern Powers are Imperialist nations. They control vast arena outside Europe und, ter. aven today, there are ritories in these areas which do not know what it is to have an election.

[

Woodrow Wyatt is a Labour Member of Parliament for the Aston division of Birmingham and was elected in 1945. He

on

all over Southeast

In its nitnck on

imperialism, the Marxist theory Inevitably 20ined Imperialism as one of the

-accused. Instances couli clearly clled of the annex af #

country by

Western Power purely to obtain for the trading elements of that Wes- tern Power greater security the carrying out of their cam- merce. The material assets of of creating the

the overseas territories of Wes - torn Powers have frequently been developed almost entirely by Europeans,

Asin.

(erence of power.

Nothing

new

could br

be shown by Mao new China.

On the other hand,

Tre-tung'a

it is be-

Well, what's Wicksteed

been

THE other day I was

reading to my children "The Tale of Mrs

upp

BERNARD

Tiggy Winkle." Do You WICKSTEED

0

know it? It's about

turned. washerwoman who out to be a hedgehog.

GOES TO

THE ZOO

Don't they

this isn't trud some, scientific hedgehog fana kept one hungry for several days and then put him in a box with an ecr

The hedgehog ignored it com- is quite an eccentric character pletely. His front teeth aren't and rather likeable when you long enough to drill a holo in "get to understand, his problems. the shell sa rols do and his If he spoke-colloquial English jawn won't open wide enough to and you asked him how he felt, crush anything bigger than the answer you'd get would be sparrow's cgg. "Lousy." That's the skeleton in his cupboard, the tragedy of his itte. You see, the poor fellow can't scratch. His prickles get In the way.

If I were a millionaire with have nothing to do I'd go round the countryside building dear little hedgehog baths filled with DDT

Naturally creature --with secret sorrow

福

EL

Another thing hedgebog aro supposed to do in creep up to their sleepint cows and suck mlik. Scientists doubt this, too. They say his mouth is too small. But hedgehogs do cat sdders. They catch hold of the addera tail in their teeth and then curl up in a ball. The maddened asp bashes its brains out against

the wall of prickles while, in-

cat

Worns,

the

much

Td barely announced the title when the brightest and most infuriating of my off. spring piped up and said: "How can you have a tale hoga? of a hedgehog when hedge- tails? hoga

don't have tails 7", (Sweet little things, chil-"-

It's dren, aren't they?

like this easily side, the hedgehog chows away R Could you give an answer

happy. miracle some of them sur- straight away? Very well, then takes to drink. There's a record at the tall, feeling safe and very let's find out. And the pinté to in one of the books at the Zoo vive)."-

do so is the library of the Lon- of a man who tamed a hedgehog

don Zoo, where by making it drunk. With admirable patienen they know mor I explained that washer to well by now don't have tails that I'm begin- elther, yet that doesn't stop ning you them).

They sat me down at a desk,

And in Paris there's an ac- great gipsy The incident passed over, brought out all

bellers and 1 trass called Mlle. Mia Parely brought up to

"were, boo, that but afterwards I began to the books on

who has a hedgehog called expect you Sosthene which lives on red alpsies dole on roast hedgehog. wonder. I was reasonably hedgehogs ever certain of my facts about written, and left me to sort the wine and Camembert cheese.

The story as I had it from the was that the gipeles know, the Common washerwomen, but was the you

She gives him wine, she says, cradle

friendly when rolled the hedgehog in a ball of child right about hedge- Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) because he's to

drunk. Mind you, it isn't neces- clay and cooked it in the ashes. sary to be a drunken hedgehog

Well, not one of the authors to make friends with a French of all those books in the Zoo actress.

gipsy

women

coming Increasingly clear ta.. those Colonial peoples who have experienced any degree of Com- munist activity that the dors stand by the ultimate goal

to feel

telling tales about quite a Fellow.

malter out.

Untouchables Still

Have Same Status

West INDIA'S law against

1-

re- touchability which

Other things, hedgehogs He poured beer over him as are slugs, cockroaches, ho lay in a ball and under the and bread and milk. On Influence of alcohol he opened whole they don't care up, "On recovering nobriety," says the book." he remained a pot for the rest of his life."

about vegetables.

Passing from what they eat to what eats them, we como to the

mystery. I was

library had ever seen a

Desides getting tight and eat a hedgehort and most of friendly with actresses another them doubted the story, thing hedgehogs do is to snore

in their sleep. I had one oneo

One of the writers wont

that hibernated in a pile of old for as to cook a hedgehog's hind leaves behind the bicycle shed, leg and try it himself. He cald and whenever our parties were it was awful-rank and bitter, expect troin an many

Harijana places

are going slow we took the guesia as you'd

the animal that lives mainly on In- forbidden to draw water frorn out in the garden to hear

upper

caste hedgehog snore. Great fun.

Hindua.

of treedum that it proclaims ceived so much publicity a wells used by Even in Indonesia, where the year ago is still only Dutch have hardly helped, up to clause in the draft Constitu-

in Asia,

the Western cause

relaxed.

between

has

struggle

been long and bitter; but at los birthday of the new it has come to an end. The In-public of India. donesians and the Dutch meet-

ing at The Hague have before

cess and

dodo Imperialist Dead as a

The

The

All Indian provinces and enough E proposition that the West-the major Indian states en Powers are imperialistic already have passed similar

Harijan problem

is

Accta.

they

Hedgehogs have been around Hedgehogs laugh too. Boys In than in

the country make them do it by for about 3,000,000 years and.

across judging by their fossils, to drawing a stick gently according

have chaugel sends don't seem to hamstrings. It that their

Because it much in that time. drifting them into shrieks

tickles so much. the

is impossible

he GOYE,

says

They can't fight, or run fast (six miles an hour in top gear), saved but their prickles have them from being trampled to death by countless generations of heavy-tooted animals and from being eaten too often by beasts of prey.

Cars.

tall.

-{London Express Service)

is an editor and writer and A member of the staff of the London Left-Wing Statesman and Weekly and The New

જીવન

The tion. It won't take effect worse in the villages Nation. He has a special interest in

1950, the big cities, the until January 26,

Ho Ambedkar. Far Eastern affairs and visited India in

Re- nationalists and the Dutch had 1946

Harijans are steadily Cabinet 4

Mission

to the cities, adopting personal assistant of Sir Stafford Cripps.

and customs

of other Another of their party tricks Chancellor of

Exchequer. the

B. R. Ambedkar, 56, In- dress

accepted. is 10 leap oft a ten-foot wall, roll up in a ball as they fall, and most and to it came delegates from ment which was just struggling them a greater prospect of suc-dia's leading untouchable indus, and using

than they and Minister of Law in the This

land unhurt on their prickies. At for its lite against the Dulch.

because agree. that conference it was resolved. And new in India, the onslaught have ever had

Indian Cabinet, is credited villages,

Hedgehog climb trees. Oh, irrespective of local conditions, proceeda against a government But con int be said of any with writing most of the everyone knows who the Hart-

Jans are. In villages the unres, they do. And walls with to start 0 hil-out chinpoigo grappling with the vast rountry that has been sucked

Constitution. touchables are regregated and ngainst nuthority, with the sim problems

But now they are dying in that Jacda i S

into the Soviel whirlpool? Only monumental

man at Sydenham. found one of creating chaos

in the gutter of his roof four thousands on the roads, because and disorder consequence of the British iros- Finland has maintained any de He and Mahatma Gandhi can speak to easte Hindus only on them and drain pipes. A Ju which Communism would be

free of political Independence.

storeys up. Because they can they haven't learned that their The heir.

Even she has lost large track of were lenders of the long at a distance of several yards. It was believed that

proof against Harijons have a per-curl in a bail if they fall they prickies aren't such pulley would the with

at posis more territory, and almost nil her in campaign, against Hindu re-

in gover~ The Soviet Government's Ene cynical than this aspect of the dustry is subordinated to theligious prejudice that re- centage

Incidentally, they do have o Russian maximum em-

Imperialism, dictates of Russian needs.

sulted in a clause outlawing ments reserved for Um, but are not afraid of heights,

remain many of the positions

In spite of all his gifts

somo

It'я n100 one about Where there was a force

that

untouchability. barrassinent everywhere for the

vacant because there are zot people don't like the hedgehog. in. long. Powers Western

those and

labelled could be

qualified men among Gamekeepers don't. They say he w

subscribed to

with any show of reason, as in

the untouchables.

cats pheasants' eggs. To prove countries which demeratie praciples. That de- Malaya, the Communists did so.

asion, once and for all, exposed Where there

was no such Consequently. Russia was ₫0- the claims that the Communist power, as in Burma or in India, and that Russia is on the side prohibitions during the past

the Communists informed garded as their

parties of champion tay

stoulshed Colonial freedom

populutions that many sections of the

their own leaders, who had won Rusia galust Imperialism peoples. It was from that a lead and Inspiration were

dependence from the British, were in really only

"stooges" expected which would assist the

of the old Imperialist rulers. Colonial peoples towards free- dom from allen rule. But what

In Europe, or has happened since 1949? in the N the first plno, the die'slun

!Southeast was a deliberate bowing to Asia, the pattern is the same British Empire, generally τ

Soviet Communian does the garded as the most conspicuous Sunt wedies against the wel-

that British concerned.

promises of Indr- building. fare of the propies Empire

very thing that it neeuses others

be relied xample of

In the second place, the various most loudly of doing.

pendence can after

kas country

and everyone can see that emerged from subject status to spriests which flowed from the

for it are being NO COLOUR QUESTION process decision were directed not only

Apparently independence, and the

Sovtee! Russia preparations

made. continues.

In the Russian Em- against the

cannot feel easy unless she can

"Problems like this bring more and more of the In the countries that fall un- pire country after country has Western Powers, but against

countries which had only Just world under her direct descended from independence to

control. da the Russian shadow, every-rooted deep in psychology

falls one knows that the Russian Should any country that mibject status, and the process achieved independence. continues.

In Burma, the Communists within her tolls pretest,

there word cannot be relied upon, and they take generations her talk of ant-to wipe out, maybe hun- attacked $110 нет Jell-wing are purges and blockades. How that government that had taken over impossible it is for any country imperialism is merely a smokedreds of years," Ambedkar "Racial and designed to cover the said recently. of screen only three months before from which reinins any element the British. In

cynical Im“, Indonesia, in notional pride to put up with most hideous and

it and things, the Com- Russian Imperialisin has

been perialism-from which there religious prejudices are not August CINCE 1930, the Soviet Govern munists sought to overthrow by shown in Europe by Yugoslavia, no redemption--that the world rational

would be foolish to imagine Govern Soon, in Asia, it will doubtless has ever seen.

that they could be eliminated overnight by the passing of ja low.

country

Annexations

annexed

any

thent hns Europe nearly 200,000 square mile, containing nearly 20,000,000 people, without pretence of an excuse that these in- were backward peoples capable of governing

them-

selves. The Soviet Government began 1's modern Imperialism with a slice taken off Czecho- the It went on with stovakia. annexation of a substantial part of Bessarabia, containing 3,000,- 000 people. Then there were the 6,000,000 people of the Bal- the States. submerged into the Russian vortex. No country on the Russian borders has been spared some zacrifice, elther ef Its whole identity, or of a sub- stantial part of its territory.

Asin stood for the 01 their countries

Cynical aspect

administrator

last year,

force the Republican

of

the

of freedom is as dead as a dodo. Britain, for example, bas

with year.

of Ambedkar realises that deliberation divested herself

Pakistan,

cannot alone authority over India,

those legislation Ceyton and Burma, In countries live the best part of solve the. problems of his

people. In

than the people any more 300 000,000 self-governing, everyone knows the American Negro prob- countries that are not yet fully legislation alone has solved

C. V. R. Thompson

upon lem.

the

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HE WILL HYPNOTISE THEM

THE LEAGUE

TO TOP OF THE

arc

"But the problem of the Indian untouchable will be easier to solve than the Negro problem in America because the colour question All does not arise here: Indians are coloured, whe ther they are Brahmins or Harijans." (Note: The meaning term "Harijan," the "Elect of God," was coined

by Gandhi.).

con-

NEW YORK. He is so cure, he has offered to throughout the world N American baseball work for expenses only. He will composer, instead of the

not be paid unless the St Louis ductor, interpreted it. famous for Browns do what they have sel-

MOTORING: Because of re-

A team,

Ambedkar estimated the

not confined itself to actual oc- lof the league, is planning to season in first, second, or there ure to bu, no more dealers' "between 90,000,000 and! But Russian Imperialism has always being at the bottom dom done before and end up the cord breaking production, | Harijan population of India

cupation of the country select use hypnotism next season ed as vletim. Poland, Bulgaria, to produce Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania,

Czechoslovakia the attempt is streak. made to tie them all, whether they wish it or not, to

n

customers'].

PROVINCIAL LAWS

pince.

waiting lists in America for new winningPINION, "The only part of cars. Detroll has promised that 40,000,000.”

OPIN

the bird of peace America all makes of cars except one will has yet seen," said commentator, be delivered just as coon as the

get their dealers the Depressed over their team's Patrick Barnes, "is the bill.”

money.

Introduction of provincial Soviet way of life. The nature constant failures, the manage

St Louis is ment of

Browns AVIATION: Wellwood Beal, a

lawa. designed to end dis of the new Imperiallan

boss of one of America's ITERATURE: Joan Vanecrimination against uzi- clearly by the vociferous called in paychiatrists.

Evera, authoress of the re-touchables has been far And the mindi.doctors said the largest aviation firms, promised L

Hundrede deavour to further the interests players were suffering from ner that he could produce a jel cent best-seller "How to be Hap from successful.

nir-liner ahead of Britain if by While Single," got married of Hindu temples, previous

the other day... They had lost so often they Washington would pay for it.

ly out-of-bounds to untouch- ments which once had bred in miss the ball worried and would MUSIC: Even music is to be THEATRE: Broadway pro-ables, have been thrown

come synthetic now. In a ducers are planning to try Chicago' speech, scientist Robert

out more of their new plays in open to untouchables recent-

flon 1o the Yugoslavian ca

10

of Yugoslavia as well as those vous tension.

of her Imperiat master. Move-

pearance, although sponsored

Moscow, of helping the workers

the

Recently,

the management

them down. in quavera

of other lines are now exposed asked Dr D.S. Trecy, a leading Lewis predicted that the com- London before bringing them to ly. But the opening cere- as mers instruments of Soviet New York hypnotist, if he could

Dr Tracey thought he porer of the future will draw his New York. Reason-production monies in most cases have Imperialism.

masterpieces instead of writing costs are one-third less in the been guarded by heavy de In Southeast Asia the Com-

and West End, and so losses from tachments of police, and ac plan is to join the team semibreves. He will do this by failures are not to disastrous cording to Ambedkar, "most munists have tried to pervert

spring training and nationalist instincts. They have

hypnotise the players into be composing a sound track.

still would shouted that they are in

Independenco lloving in themselves.

Sold Dr Lewis: "He will or B named

PACK in 1037 an Indiana judge untouchables Said hs:

Sherman "Any athlete who chestrale while he composea, and van of all the

Minton rather not enter a temple." movements. For a thort Uma

An

woman Harijan cuccumbs to nervous tension, this will enable him to use backed F.D.R. in the only fight

death in the East many were deluded, but now

some of it's ability.

sounds never before produced, he lost to put younger blood beaten to

the joined a the reality has appeared.

"If I could treat the Browns with rhythms far more intricate into the United States Supreme Punjab because

Court. President Trumon has banquet of upper casto Hindus. In February 1918, the Com- and make them concentrate on than we call tow imagine."

appointed Minton to fill n va- Many ?

places public cadng nunlata held a conference at their abilities rather than on

food or Calcutta, It was sponsored by thewo of their opponents I am Another advantage the cancy in that court. Minton's still refuse to serve

composition

-In can bo · played age-sa.

even-water-to-Harltons, the Indian Communist Party, I sure di would help

Lones

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