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World Copyright. De orianorment with Dads Ferala.

GANDHI

ALIVE

WERE

TODAY.

OON after the begin- tion of his life's work upon

Sning of the Korean the needs of his own coun-

war, I sat up late one try.

10

that

Experiments

By FRANCIS

WATSON

Gr at the cost of honour."

vinient short-cuts, iten situation.

THE JOCK AT WAR

By J. W. Taylor

with he

TO regiment could claim Kinney in North Africa. Ho

a better fighting re- went for the enemy cord in World War head with a big stelt; Behirl company, stumping along at the

Two than the Black Watch. them were the carriers under Their battaliona served in Derek Ilorne. almost every theatre and were conterned in many then wayered, then stopped," desperate ventures.

Kays Col. FerguR:ON. "Jock McKinney's velce came over

"The enemy's fire intensitled,

The whole rico

They were in the 1940 the air on the radio: They're operations on the Continent away, ir.

clear. Derek's killed a lot of which ended in the disaster them, but I've only caught one

CASSINO

Was

at St Valery; in Crete Panzer Grenadier and he's su during the airborne in gey wee I doubt he's not worth vasion, and Tobruk when it keeping?" was besieged; they were at El Alamein and in the long gallop to Tripoli; in the in- vasion of Sicily and the long drawn-out slogging match in Italy; fought in 21 Army Group from Nor. mandy to the Rhine; and the Red Hackle was also found among the Chindit columns which operated be hind the Japanese in Burma,

"The

McKinney, by the way, hudly wounded soon afterwards. Both thighs were broken and he was lamed for life, but, still In uniform, he is now Recruiting Ofleer in Dundes.

rold.

When in Tripoll, one battallon was put on stevedoring duties One day while unloading » consignment of tinned peaches and rum they ignored an or Clear "When the All Black Watch and the wont, and other troops emerged King's Enemies,' a new book, from their hide-holes, which tells the story of these particular Jochs were observed tough Jocks, will appeal to all wiping their mouths with their those who enjoy a really stir sleeves, and saying "Aye, gey the nerves, thac air ring war history, sprinkled with bad for excellent character sketches and raids." " human incidenis.

STRIKING

It was wrliten by Lt-Col. Bernard Fergusson, who now commands the regular battalion

these

Among their ranks at Cassino they had a 53-year-old Lance- sergeant who had Orst joined the Regiment in 1908. He hari been inwalided out durlug World War One, but re-enlisted in 1939, and by 1944 was back

of the Regiment and served in In the 6th Battalion, within North Afrien and with the which he had served during the Chinlits. An accomplished

writer his "Beyond the Chind earlier war.

win" and "The Wild Green "Here in Cassino, he WO Earth" are well known with again deperately wounded by the advantage of knowing per- one of our own shells which sonally the officers and men he fell short, and as he was car writes about, he has produced red way on a stretcher he niting description of an old son

sent and lustrious regiment in some of its greatest moments.

towards a

It

kentor

contains,

too, some de- lightful lighter menients. Such It was this that most deeply as this one of the 4th Battalion's ak garrison duty hocked orthodox Comomuniais, period of

When

the Voluntary modifications of the Gibraltar, system were to them almost naval commander at the time

"Such Idens." was Vice-Admiral Sir Jame blasphemous sat one critle, (P. Spratt) "are Somerville. *", obviously Gandhi's Victorian upbringing

remnants of

Primitive and brutish," was all

One night, the Admiral came

ty wa

repeated ten minutes

JUDGMENT

respectful message to Colonel Madden, asking for his forgiveness for 'falling out with- Broken in tara permission.'

In but hardly as ever body. spirit, he survived the war to resume the secretaryship of the in his Regiment Association native Aberdeen."

GREAT SOLDIER

Борега

cap-

were in-

He won for the troops a sur-

their rights under the Geneva Convention.

תפלדי

I was a universal night, trying to think out figure with a universal m what Mahatma Gandhi fluence. But he recognised might have said, or done, the task before him and did in the world situation, that not dissipate his energies,

Of that great soldier, Major- we are now facing without Even the great doctring of

General Sir Victor Fortune, him. I took down his own non-violence, which

could

Yet the evidence accumulated, into the battalion mess la re

of violence port that he had just received who was captured at St Valery, writings from my bookshelf, make an ideal appeal to all

Gandhi believed that India had before the forces

one of the Black Watch sentries, truly be said to have leri and some of the books writ humanity, had a special a special and pacific contribution Pk Gandhi's life, that he was the best snub of his life from Col. Fergusson writes: "He may

] arer to the truth than any him practical reference to In to make to the future, that all ten by others about

"Peace Communist dogma.

Germany "The Admiral had walked tivity captive. To him all pri- men of good will desiré.

of war in Gandhi's last.

Immense concern and I got out the notes that dia's position in the

past him once without receiving owned the comparative restraint I want among all mankind," he

the masses. his hold the salute which he felt to be with which they HUL wint for I had made of my meetings twenty-five years before in- wrote, "but I do

over them, his understand his due." writes Colonel Fer- creasingly used. He set himself with him years ago.

depencience, and, in the first race at any ens, and certainly of their material and

hot by placating the aggressor #piritual needs, left Communism, and when the indigni- to teach the Germans manners, that stage of developing and pre- idea, I had

What, then, of non-violene almost speechless. "The peasani later he had ventured to broach prisingly high proportion of evening, that on the follow serving nationlood.

Some could write at shormous 13tle is an objectionable type: the subject to the Jock. ing day I should be talking

Tength of the Mabama's ab

a that they could stammer. to his son, Devadas Gandhi.

dute devotion to ahinea, The But Gandhi saw in the peasant I did not even know

Fight within him burned steady

free man, free to give his) Devadas Gandhi was in Lon- THAT is my personal view. It

I can only say that abour, free to enjoy the fruits "Do you see all those ships don for a few days. But discovered, or thought he the

is the view of Westerner who and clear,

Can coneive situations of it, free to think and warship in the barbour down there?' he bade him. asked, and the Jock sold: Aye, when I did meet him, al covered, Gandht through the which, though he himself would as his conscience

the Russian villages. and the take no part in milltary action, Communism of

"And do you see all this stuff most the first words he said Indian

11. would not condemn villages. through

type" he wrote, "that is Com-

on my arm? (polating to the Lo me were: "If my father Indian

who did so. And the clearest munism which is imposed on a

of gold on his sleeve,) may casily were alive today, he woul

may example of such a situation peopl, would be repugnant to

and the Jock said: 'Aye, be that In which would

an India." have gone to Moscow."

trying to relate be wrong in

inter-

"Well, I don't want to be Gridham

angressor, refusing the same Gandhi and

to a Something of

And that is what he would awkward in any way, said the particular situation. For surely national summons to withdraw, thought had been running his life was what he called it. a

is opposed by the united deef- be facing today in our world Admiral midly, but I feel that Communism of the Russian type you ought really to salute que through my own mind. But series of experiments. The ex- tisa of free nations.

imposing itself on many nations when I go past. Don't you?" I realised that it involved two periments were undertaken with

and threatening still further ex-

"The Jock looked at the gold The of denial pansion: il

rings and thought it over, and assumptions. The first as-

for nationalism There were

enlightened!

at fast, pronouncing judgment, sumption was that the Russonality.

principles behind them.

the which he worked, a denial of

he suit: Ye may be a serjeant. sians would give him travel

Ell pretend to

Fot

but you're not a serjeant in the facilities and admit him to

reste the appikation of those and interference between one

Black Watch." discussion with their head principles to any given event. zation and another is at this Even so, the principles them- stage of the world's history the In view of Moscow's

Blue. most vital and immediate ene. may give us some

JUST as Gandlil could recog-i Others. I know, see the whole

ise the virtue in Communist) In terms of

politiea!

ideals, so he was swift to detect It might be that they would nationalism-lant is to say, belief--to be Communists Or

How the perversion of ideals for im- hardly have refused.

purifled, non-aggressive not to be Communists.

None pure purposes of power. can Gandhism colve that con- knew better than he the real

of imperialism.

ers. concern

Gandhi,

those

rings Indeed. anyone wrong.

the full

20

of his free per- clear

זh

No Short Cuts

mc. it seems that

bitu.stion of armed aggression the frie human spirit.

selve to influence publie I believe that ure of them was opinion outside the U.S.S.R., rats in intes nationalism based problem

No Hesitation

*

...

; ז'

iruthful means, was

others.

Real Meaning

meaning

of human love, notas a function asked him of blind economic ferees.

My

have no illu

denounced it when

into a

nationalism. "National

indipendence," he flict? said, "is as necessary as indivi-

I can see the beaming smile cwn countrymen dual independence," and again with which he would describe slons about that unyielding fight THE second assumption and again he showed that both himself as a revolutionary in of his. He

was that Gandhi himself those freedoms involve responsi- some matters, a conservative in it showed itself in Japan, and he would not have fatted to see would decide that the cause bilities. A fully developed na-

He thought Lenin of peace might be served by tinalism, atlaid by Just and "master-spirit," but it was with the corruption of power which

the first Talstoy that he felt kinship, has made the U.S.S.R. his personal intervention step: then comes voluntary in because Tolstoy believed in a centralised imperialism. in international affairs. He terdependence with other na- new social order as a function Just before the World War, I

whole never showed any hesitation tions for the good of the about placing himself in the world.

"Internationallım is possible very storm centre of a prob- only when nationalism becomes lem while he was alive. Bat a fact, ie, when peoples belong- he bad found those storm ing to different countries have

his centres among

own organised themelves and people or in their direct able to act together."

A free India, voluntarily asso- saw the solution of unjust in sense that he intended. ciated with the Commonwealth equalities in the possibility of

to Moscow today and I have always thought and playing her full part in a human partnership. He spoke going

they should do that one of the most signifi- world-wide organisation of na- of "democracy disciplined and being asked by the rulers in the

Lions for peace-this, curely, culightened as "the finest thing Kremlin what

he not give cant things about Mahatma was

which ho in the world." Be refused to for peace, would Inke short-cute, especially a similar hugver? Gandhi was the concentra- painted..

concerns.

the goal to

dra

British what the should do for peace. "Give up The power of work and the your il-gotten guins," he re-

should of expital

Le pled. I think I argued that that power

hoped we were balanced-hit Is how I read was what we

wany dofag, and that not all of those -gotten in the "He "cains" were

Gandhi's answers to No questions on the subject.

110

But if we could imagine him

Then there is the story of the grey-haired Major Jock Me-

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

**It looks very much though your Aunt Ethel were expecting her call-up papers at any moment now

"All the time he maintained by giving the morale

would polley to follow which cause the maximum difculties for the Germans without pro- voking them to undue reprisals. organised "Ic encouraged escaping he insisted on exemp- lary tum-out by ali ruaks; and he arranged for the organisation of studies and pastimes so that the time spent behind barbed wire should not all be locust

A LEGEND

si ܕ

General Rennie, like General Fortune, he writes, beccaine n legend in bls lifetime.

"He never wore a red hat to the day of his death;

Hackle was good enough for him. He wan

staunch as Dumbarton Rock, determined to the point of obstinacy; he was a great Jock-lover, and they in turn adored him."

And of General Wimberley, who commanded the 51st High- land Division In the Desert and in Selly, he remarks: "Born and bred in the Camerons, he might have been born and bred for the precise purpose of commanding the Highland Divi- slon in war. He was an ardent. almost on immoderate up- holder of everything Highland. Every man in the division knew that tall and ungainly figure. Between buities the Generat

be at the Would

same time solicitous for the men's welfare and Intent upon his -Training: during them he would be using his arms like a flail them

to urge forward, being nt the same moment as likely as not improperly tar forward himself."

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