See Danger in Allied Neglect of India Following Failure of Gandhi's Fast
LOW, MATTHEW
See Danger in Allied Neglect of India Following Failure of Gandhi's Fast India Key To Asia War Strategy By MATTHEW LOW "Think furiously" is what elder-statesman C. R. told India'* leaders this...
...The Empire today is a Britain of "shrunken overseas investments and lost export markets...
...Consolidated, maker of heavy flying planes, including a new super semi-secret 400-passenger plane now abuilding...
...Let me give you an example...
...The "contingent fee racket" has also been involved in War Frauds cases...
...Now the Department, for the first time, is prosecuting what it brands as "cheats and chiselers in our war business as they occur or are discovered...
...A Date IT would be easy to give this historical note a * certain theoretical sophistication...
...Some of the commissions are steep and fabulous figures.and would have bought (Clark's estimate ran) a thousand fighting planes, cannon, machine guns, and all...
...But while Albert Emanuel was scrying- clients in Dayton, he was learning two things: that' there is a -lot of money in public utilities and that it is easy to take it from public, utility magnates...
...Allied lines in the South Pacific have been stabilized...
...To this we must add the cost of bombs and petrol...
...When he had learned1 what he wanted to learn, he came' East and entered the big time...
...But the following report in the dispatch which the New Delhi correspondent sent to the Manchester Guardian may be useful for those who are still stumbling through the controversies over British "Empire" or British "Commonwealth:" "The latest report on the conditions of the workers in the Assam tea plantations reveals th^t in spite of the strong recommendations of.the Royal Commission twelve year's ago in favor of the establishment of statutory wage-fixing machinery, the Assam Government has not taken action...
...March 14...
...You can't hide from the scientific surveillance of a modem police state, but you can mislead the police...
...Since civilization was well on its way to destruction before the war began, success in war will not automatically preserve it...
...Illiterate Individuals Will Fight: Nations Need Not...
...Victor Emanuel's background illustrates one kind of American dream—the type found in Upton Sinclair's novels, the cagy boys who...
...The more you resemble a normal everyday citiaen in every respect, the less likely you are to be suspected...
...A prosaie office in a large office biulding is much safer than a romantic dungeon...
...his Aviation Corporation holds 10 to 34 per cent stock interest in Pan-American Airways, Ameiican Airlines and Roosevelt Field...
...And as long as you do not arouse suspicion and scrupulously observe a long series of rules of caution, you may be able to carry on underground work for years on end...
...to bomb Germany "round the clock" and night after night...
...Herbert Morrison: "Only those Jewish children in Europe with close relativ« in Britain can enter [some 250 out of 2.000...
...Presumably Young and Rubicam will stay, due to the longstanding friendship between LaRoehe and Girdler...
...On Msreh 14," said Friedrieh Engels at a grave in Highgate cemetery sixty years ago...
...who question the wisdom of social progress and compromise with Communism, shunning the truth and betraying the people by dishonest diplomacy . . . the present war, which has no righteous purpose apart from the divine purpose to destroy athiestic Com--munism ¦ Business Frauds Cripple Production WASHINGTON —"How many strikes can you cite...
...The British Association has not, of course, drawn up blue-, prints for the organization of the Atlantic Charter clause in concrete economic ways...
...Harry Woodhead will be president...
...Subsistence allowances will simply underpin poverty with a low minimum standard...
...It belongs to a time long past, if it is not completely a figment of the imagination of writers of fiction...
...See Danger in Allied Neglect of India Following Failure of Gandhi's Fast India Key To Asia War Strategy By MATTHEW LOW "Think furiously" is what elder-statesman C. R. told India'* leaders this week...
...Florida Mag...
...Their new book, The Silent War, is a first-hand account of "spies at work...
...Subsistence income security which is all that can be given by social insurance is so inadequate a provision for human happiness that to put it forwerd/.Jby itself as a sole or principal measure of reconstruction hardly seems worth doing...
...As for the dividends paid by the Assam Tea Companies during the twelve years, a correspondent has checked the following figures for as in the British Stock Exchange Handbook: 192...
...The Overgrocsd LJOLLYWOOD hssn't taken a beating like that * in a long time...
...The "wtory of the world," Cr...
...They wrll not eliminate poverty, and only alleviate it a little 2. Sir William himself recognizee that the problem of the poor is a fundamental one of organizing and re-organizing society...
...Several large companies entered secretly into sn agreement to file high and unreasonable bids, not the lowest possible bids as were required by the lew...
...More favorable than that is the balance on hardening metals...
...as I should like to call it—we *hall need a binding and all-determining basic pathos, guiding us all the way to detailed ana practical matters...
...deepened feeling of humanity, indeed a new Huviamim, remote from all shallow optimism but full of sympathy, which will be only too necessary for the work of reconstruction that will confront us after the tremendous moral and material devastations, after the collapse of the accustomed worli...
...operations...
...The air correspondent of The Obterrer suggests that one reason may be their cost...
...Soviet Russia's potential mineral supplies are estimated to exceed these of any other country...
...And as a matter of fact, the War Frauds Unit, under the Justice Department's Tom ? Clark, is stepping up its activities...
...There were just ? few people there to see Karl Marx buried...
...He had been left alone for barely two mia-utee...
...Engels, Liebknecht, one or two others...
...These are the "influence men" who get commissions on Government contracts...
...They produce: 97 per cent of nickel, 96 p. ct...
...America's new frontiers, unbounded by the 1890 oceans today, are the horizons and the skies, and the new financial buccaneers seem to be rushing m with something of the spirit of seventy years ago...
...The point is very simple...
...The monthly wages of the Assam Valley men amounts to 12s...
...or night fighters, we may lose say, fifty aircraft a raid...
...Not many months ago the Government began advertising for bids on lots of materials for construction purposes...
...Clark in describing the activities of the unit, "we have a flight squadron to track down and prosecute cases involving defective war materials...
...the funeral orsrion concluded, and that ws» all...
...we shall need sympathy for ft, and love...
...I'm tired and I want to go home and live in peace on my ranch with my family...
...A Portrait of ? Buccaneer America's NewTycoons—Aviation Opens Frontiers for Industrial U.S...
...a foolhardy en* —to risk it...
...The Cost of ? 1,000-Bomber Raid Special to The New Leasee LONDON (By Mail...
...It would so wealtte us ia aircraft in eanip»**t and in highly trained ????????* that at the end we theeld be left 'wide open' and defenseless in the air...
...The cost in money does not matter, what counts i* war is resourc Remits are toe un< ? -tats far suck...
...One of his handicaps is size...
...Hidden vaults, the faint glimmer of candlelight trap doors, sinister plotters with false beards, are all very well in the movies...
...But if the sice of bis operations can be any help, Victor Emanuel has in the new Cnnsolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation something to please his age...
...Lt...
...The next classification," he continued, '"of war frauds is plain old everyday cheating—collusive bidding, payoffs, bribery...
...were certain that the war ?????* and would be ended by «M> means, it wools' take a brave-leader—poeaibl...
...Millions of dollars have been saved as hundreds of contracts have been forced to renegotiation...
...Though Victor Emanuel maintains offices in Manhattan's Graybar Building, he has had little to do with advertising...
...The Rneferic and rfce Record TpHERE have ben all kinds of scholastic dis-* ? u tat km over the meanings of words, and we leave semantics to the parlor conversationalists...
...People remain in' poverty long» after they climb well above the subsistence level...
...The inflation of the Bevendge Plan and all the wild-eyed propaganda about "social security* ?? simply crying pet for a debunker...
...By MURRAY EVERETT As the front-page headlines tell of the serious illness of J. P. Morgan, symbol of an old era in finance, little notes in inside and financial pages foreshadow a new, spectacular era in American finance: the emergence of the new aviation tycoons, shrewd, tough, making their way through the vast, unconquered expanses of skies...
...Concludes G ret tan—"The real Blueprints for the Future will have to include . . . such an arrangement of incentives and economic machinery as will provide job* and good*, not doles and relief and the dreary hopelessness of WPA work projects...
...Mounting Allied air offensives against their mines and transport facilities is, of course, taking its toll in slowing down production and distribution...
...And the best way to mislead them is to live as conventionally and as openly as possible...
...Jon Jansen and Stefan Wey!, until recently active agents of the anti-fascist movement in Germany, are doing their best to cut the'ground under all the romantic cinematic illusions of underground activities...
...At the diaziest height of the Twenties, they made the deal— with Insull...
...progress is being made in New Guinea...
...As described by officials, the men, after deciding to change their habitation, pick the state and region to which they desire to move...
...Thus was then launched Albert Emanuel & Co., a bondhouse...
...Of interest in a number of un-cefleored documents which have just reached this country are the statements of Gandhi himself who, failing to make political headway with his fast, has nevertheless increased his stock of esteem and affection...
...Here are his calculations: Assuming a five per cent loss ratio, made up of our average announced losses in the 1,000-bomber raids, plus a smaller proportion of aircraft rendered unserviceable because of landing crashes or of damage from enemy A.A...
...The 60-40 advantage which the Axis used to have in Aluminum, now in the higher brackets of war materials, has now been reversed in the Allied favor since 1938...
...1. There is nothing in the report to warrant the statement that Beveridge has a scheme to "eliminate poverty...
...But as the Marquess of Lintlithgow sat back in his marble New Delhi palace, contented with his ^victory, and as Moslem, Hindu, and Congress leaders sought new strategies for coping with the Empire, it hardly seemed likely that a miracle would strike-iwice in the same place...
...It is because," he writes, "Congress is anxious for Great Britain to avoid the fate that has overtaken other- imperial powers that it asks her to shed imperialism voluntarily by declaring India independent...
...Consolidated^ subsidiary, Consa-airwayfi, operates a vast cargo-carrying airline across the Pacific...
...Tom Girdler is to remain chairman of the consolidated company...
...Last week Victor Emanuel consolidated his position as ablest financial fmagrer in the aviation business by staging the long-expected big merger of Consolidated and Vultee...
...The story is of a dandy who really was the leader of a secret organization to save French aristcrats from the guillotine—and it managed to perpetuate all the old myths that things like that actually do take place in the modern world...
...Once you are suspected, even catacombs will not help...
...My God," he said, 'the man believes his own atrocity stories!'" . . . Robert M. Hutchins: "Victory cannot save civilization...
...By the time they were ready to sell out, Victor Emanuel, Albert's son, was practically a full partner...
...t?ttwpinM and Comment * ty MBLVIN J. LASKY EfljMSJs...
...is- engaged <m a speensiae-oignmrnt, and "^"'^^ ^ J^^a writmfi the ostium aaertfe Seeders ore invited to...
...The term 'underground' is completely misleading...
...but when we entered his room we found that, seated in his chair, he had quietly gone to sjeep—forever...
...Granting the others visas would cause anti* Semitism in this country...
...It can merely prevent its destruction by one spectacular method...
...Ha brought with him the elevator boy in his Dayton building, one Tom O'Hara, They began to buy decrepit utilities on every hand...
...His finger is constantly pointing to "Malaya, Singapore, and Burma...
...the man of success and greed for money and power...
...The War Frauds Unit is seeing to it that the "dollar saboteurs" will not be able to set up business at the same old stand...
...They happen to be cases of war fraud by American business corporations...
...Fairy tales" serve as a useful cover for Jansen-Wey...
...The Axis powers together, however, have sufficient current resources...
...Information at the Cincinnati office is that the proposed exodus of 50,000 farmers from their present homesteads is expected to be accomplished in a year...
...In coal the United Nations produce about 70 per cent of the world's supplies...
...It baa already reversed the policy which governed the Justice authorities in World Wax L At thst time all cases were delayed until several years after the war by which time' the evidence was either missing or fragmentary...
...But there seemed to be justice in Indian's claim that "it was not so much the Allied cause that weighed with the British Government as an unexpressed determination to cling to the possession of India as an indispensable part of imperial policy...
...If there is going te be a real drive to get changes in the Empire, delusions have to be «rotten rid of, and facts have to be faced—"then, perhaps, we won't be so ready to thrill with pride about Empire, but more determined to clean it up...
...Lt...
...In order to build up, or at least lay the foundations for, the new, better, happier, and more social world, freed from unnecessary suffering— the City of Man...
...Would, it be possible for the Empire and the cause of the Allied democracies both to "hold their own...
...Upon investigation the F.B.I, found that the excessive profits in these contracts ran into several million dollars . . Prosecution begun, and over $100.000.000 has already been repaid to the Treasury...
...And if the recapture of Burma still remains a remote possibility, the enemy seems to be taking small advantage of the strategic position...
...The stage manager of this new drama was squat, chubby Victor Emanuel, boss of the rambling Aviation Corporation...
...The working agreement is made between such a farmer and the man he engages...
...As for the leads which Clark has picked up, some have even come through in the form of anonymous letters, which discounting the hearsay and grudge gossip have often pointed out facts that actually put the F.B.I, on the track of an important case...
...1930/22 _10rr 1983 _304· 1934 and 1936-2fi"V 1936 _30S* 1937__35^7 1938 and 19»_30*5· 1940_30...
...7Vi and 2*4 ) "We may not be greedy exploiters...
...The Anaconda Cable scandal of several months ago was the most publicized of the cases on this count...
...and Victor Emanuel himself...
...The question that is being asked is why...
...The censorship of news about India is still as heavy as it was in the August riote of last year...
...Elliott Reoseveh: "Let's get together and get this damn war won...
...The Street records that the deal -was for a cool $100,000,000, cash...
...But it did suggest that war can be— and probably will be—outlawed by joint control of the distribution of the world's mineral wealth by the United Nations...
...Guadalcanal has been taken...
...Relocation WASHINGTON, D. C—One of the greatest planned migrations in U. S. history is new getting under way from Cincinnati, where 50,000 farm families from the dessicated fields and hills of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caroline, .and Arkansas are being relocated in new areas...
...renturiem...
...About 75 per cent of the farmers are family men with possessions...
...Its January, 1943, issue One section of the magazine shouts: "LET THERE BE PEACE — NOW...
...Urges 'Peace7 A magazine, proudly advertising that it can be found "in libraries throughout America," is being sent through the United States mails breeding appeasement and anti-Semitism...
...The author continues in an almost incoherent way: "Instigated by class and racial groups of capitalists (Christians by inheritance, Jews and Gentiles), who use the press and movies to poison public opinion and bribe a bad representative system of government to nullify the will of the people...
...Hi* name and hit work will Irre on through thi...
...These are the average cash ?? nags in acdi...
...The program is being directed by the Farm Security Administration...
...craeks Emrys Hughe*, editor of the Glasgow Forwmrd "but we certainly do like a lot...
...Some background on Victor Emanuel is given this week by David Munro, editor of Space . and Time: "Some years ago the traction company of Dayton, Ohio, was plagued by a lawyer who always showed up as attorney for the injured and near-injured among the riders on the Dayton surface lines...
...More than 160,000 men, women and children may be affected...
...It was a medical miracle that pulled Mohandas K. Gandhi through his 21-day fast...
...their men "im»Si"g» *** comment*:'] - The ftavarldfe tsbb/e ?had to come...
...Congress seeks to kill imperialism as much for the sake of the British people and humanity as for India...
...Education among the cb.il· dren, number** over half a miuidn, ia deplorably backward, only t% attending schofle...
...The steel-making capacity of the Allies at present is twice that of the three Axis nations together with all the countries they have occupied...
...tion to free housing and firewood and certain other concessions...
...Terrs oad Coafexr* WALTER LIPPMANN: "In a book of D. H. Lawrence's he wrote of one of his characters, 'Poor Richard Lovatt wearied himself to death struggling with ?? problem of himself, and calling it Australia.' Washington is full of men whose anxieties are reported as the inner inside dope about the war, men struggling with the problem oi themselves, and calling it American . . . John T. Whitaker: "When Ciano first met Hitler, his reaction was violent...
...Indictments have already been obtained in almost 200 prosecutions...
...This, he says, "is perhaps the most important and most reprehensible type of war frauds...
...His air empire at present includes Vultee and Stinson, manufacturers of light planes...
...50,000 Farmers Moved by F.S.A...
...The U.S.A...
...As for compromise* Gandhi wrote in a letter to the Viceroy: "Congress was willing and prepared for the government inviting Jinnah [the Moslem leader] to form a National Government subject to general adjustments as may be necessary for the duration of the war...
...as well as Emaunel & Co...
...Let us suppose we undertake say ninety raids, as seem aa <** weather permits, on the seal* that Bomber Command wadfi Proportionately ninety raidsweaat cost ?460.000,000, four then—I five hundreds machines, over 30,· 000 aircrew, and the use of 3W.-000 tons of fuel for aircraft engines alone...
...Imperial police and troops have fired on Indian crowds 528 times...
...Robert Henriqaes: "This must be the end of the pompons man...
...This served as a grim reminder that the invader was still at the door, aggressive and ambitions, and that the key to the fortunes of the war in Asia still lay somewhere in a magic formula which could throw the 400,000,000 ntasses of the Indian sub-continent behind the battles against the Axis...
...learn the inside ropes and how to pull them...
...women get 10s, and children 7s, fti the neighboring Surma Valley the wages are even lower, the men receiving...
...But from official British figures it is learned that since that time more than 60,000 Indians have been jailed, 40,000 are still under arrest...
...They take a training course...
...No official estimate has seen given of the time such an operation would take...
...The "tendency at the moment is to underestimate the importance of the India area in the global front...
...Soviet reserves of iron ore are calculated at 10,000 million tons, surpassing those of the United States...
...After the big utility deal out of which he is alleged-to have made $30.000.000...
...The present war, he writes in his report, "is likely to complete the work of the first war ia exhausting British investments overseas and to deprive Britain largely of another source of earning abroad through shipping services...
...Bember Command and other Air Ministry spokesmen have stated that they wanted enough aircraft to be...
...it would give a million soldiers a hand grenade a piece to fight the enemy...
...Yet there remains a very grave threat...
...In addition to the 50,000 year-round farmers which FSA proposes to move, a second part of the program contemplates the recruiting and transporting of 275,000 seasonal workers...
...To others he appears as a free--' dom-loving Indian leader whose cause was not always helped by " his mysticism, his political adventurism, his spinning-wheel economics...
...It is said to be worth a quarter billion and will probably be inflated to a billion before the war is over...
...China remains exhausted, but the Jups are still being held, and the Chennault Air Force in growing in strength...
...The sooner the better, too...
...He states plainly that "the framing of a satisfactory .scheme of social security depends on the solution of other problems of economic and social organisation...
...in these and in other ways it will change the economic environment in which the British people must live and work and may call for radical and in some ways painful adjustments...
...Victor' distinguished himself by joining all the clubs here and in England that he could get in or that would overcome the social handicaps under which he felt he suffered...
...Allies Gain Key Superiority in Raw Materials LONDON — The documentation of the Atlantic Charter's 4th clause ("access on equal terms to the trade and raw materials of the world") which is being done here by the British Association for the Advancement of Science in its advisory capacity to the United Nations has turned up some vital data on the division of minerals in the world today...
...Our sens must lift their eyes to the hills we have traveled for their understanding...
...Bat there are actually thousands of cases of sabotage against the war effort that the Government is currently investigating— and very little is heard about them...
...A political one was needed to carry the Allied cause through the dark period of India-British stalemate...
...1883...
...An aero engine uses about eight ounces of high octane fuel per horse-power per hour...
...Mohandas K. Gandhi to good parts of the world is just a shriveled little man in a loincloth, a frail bag of bones...
...The stage was lit this week witli the biggest aviation merger in world history all set and ready to go: Vultee and Consolidated Aircraft (run by burly Tom Girdler) were being welded into the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, a vast stratosphere enterprise with-$270,000,000 total assets, annual sales of over $500,000,000 and profits of $15,000,000...
...In the sober reality of the Third Reich, one would net get very far with such trappings...
...The air-marshals have been quiet on that question for several months, and there have been very-few of these mass-raids on Germany...
...One, two...
...But why dress up a shameless sentimentalism...
...The weather will, of course, prevent this...
...this with ear* a colossal "write off...
...We are not to build ?? the past that is dead...
...Thus it is calculated that not less than a million gallons of high octane fuel is used in a 1,000-bomber raid: that is about 3,500 tons—the capacity of a small tanker...
...Farmers file requests for labor with the Federal Employment Service...
...In spirit and action they are a throwback to the rough, brawling buccaneers of the James J. Hill-Andrew Carnegie era who carved out- new empires from virgin territory...
...The traction company, of cdmnfcs called him an ambulance chaser...
...There has been more lov* on this mountain born of our suffering than was ever found in the plain of our leisure...
...Then we might consider the crews...
...alone is producing at the rate of about twice that of continental Europe and 10 times that of Japan...
...we reef...
...Gandhi has been anxious to disown any kind of narrow nationalist or "isolationist" implication to India's aspirations for freedom and self-rule...
...eight, women seven, and clffldren five sjulfln» a month...
...Congress has no interests apart from that of the whole of India and the world...
...He v.-???» thick special shoes to overcome it...
...has said, "it the history in each ot u* at...
...From the anti-labor propaganda you would think there were hundreds of cases...
...An average of seven men per aircraft represents a loss of 350, whose training cost' can be reckoned at $5,000 each or about $1,750,000...
...The world must go forward from the dream of avarice to the dream of God which ia scarcely remembered...
...It is good that the debunking has com* from so serious and responsible a studert as C. Hartley 6wtt*n, who has written a first-rate article ia the current Harpen, " Beve ridge Plans are not Enough...
...The C-in-C...
...of molybdenum, 82 per cent of cobalt, 77 per cent of manganese, 77 per cent of .tungsten, and about 90 per cent of the world's copper...
...Against this the Axis holds nearly three-quarters of the world's tin supply mainly through the Japanese conquest of Malaya and the Netherland Indies...
...Some one else has remarked, and truly enough, that "ist eternity there are no dares: au moments art contrmpomneom...
...In 1833, they write, the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (with Leslie Howard) was playing in Berlin, and it was apparently a wonderful thing for the movement...
...But London was bombed on al* most a hundred successive nights...
...had become a date...
...The avowed purpose of the relocation is to move year-round workers, drawn mostly from less productive regions where there is a surplus of farm manpower, principally into dairy and livestock regions to replace experienced workers who are in service or in war industries...
...958 Indians have been flogged...
...Thomas Maaat "f believe that the sufferings and stirring advea* tures through which humanity has been going now for decades will bring forth a new...
...The lawyer was one Albert Emanuel...
...The bombers are hitting Germany every night now, and some historically-minded people have been asking about those "1,000-bomber-raids" and all the propaganda of the total destruction of the enemy via airpower...
...Last month, at the height of the excitement and worry over Gandhi, starving himself in the quarters at Poena, the Japanese, delighted with Britain's embarrassment, declared a "Mahatma Gandhi Week" in all occupied territories in the East...
...With the conviction and a desire to learnt, something of the technical operation of a trolley line, Albert Emanuel bought a controlling interest in a broken-down line somewhere in Kansas...
...They write...
...First of all," says Mr...
...It is called "The Commonwealth" and is published by Waters F. Burrows, M.D., of Bradenton, Florida...
...Victor has proved himself a go-getter abler than his father...
...If the average cost of these aircraft is $4X1.000 each, the total cost in machines amounts roughly to $2,000,000...
...Already about 1,000 farmers have been moved to new regions to aid in production of more food...
...at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest of living thinkers ceased to think...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 11
