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Zurich Herald, 1929-03-07, Page 3I am not against full .Dominion .Status r :India To -day and -•-as full as ,any dominion peaeessee • it. to -da, ,,dad 1 get.it before it G�iandStandd loses all attraction. I am for lugger. '140111 Irwin, the V eery Apr Sista with S y peals For Good Faith 'Whale the Simon Commission Continues its Difficult ; Task The Gandhi Resolution "Tho Indian National Congress vot- ed for Dominion. Status, adopting the resoultion moved by Mr, Gandhi- , "Tlie resolution was as follows:— " 'This ollows:-"'This Congress 11aviug considered the constitution recommended by the All Parties •Committee report, wel- comes it as a a great contribution to- wards the solution of India's political and communal problems, and congra- tulates the Committee on the virtual unanimity of its recommendations; .and whilst adhering' to the resolution ate separation by the treatment ac - passed risen to complete Independence corded to ii by Britain herself, and passed byfthe Madras.Congress, ap in that case we shall have precisely by the of the tee constitution great drawn up the same remedy as the Dominions by the Committee as a stele in now have, political advance especially as it re "Our destination is Freedom, the presents the largest measure of agree- form and extent of whicF will depend rant a count among important parties upon the time when, and the eircum- in the country. stances under which, it comes." "'Subject to the exigencies of the The Significance political situation this Congress will Referring' to RealtSe resolution quoted adopt the constitution in its entirety if it is accepted by the British Parlia- the Times of India, in a leader, says. ment on or before December 31, 1929, "The real significance 'o€. the action but, in the event of its non-acceptance taken by the Congress is, in our be - by that date or its earlier rejection, lief, not to be found so much in the the Congress will organize non-violent resolution which it adopted as in the non -co-operation by advising the coun- actual voting. It will be noticed try to refuse taxation and in such that the amendment moved by Mr. other manner as may be decided • up- • Bose in favor of complete iudepend- on. ence was. lost by 1,350 to.973 votes. "'Consistently with the above, no- The Independence Party are gaining thing in this resolution shall interfere ground. with the carrying on in the name -of "There is no cause for jubilation ill the Congress of propaganda for corn- the fact that the' Congress has condi- piete Independence. tionally accepted -Dominion Status as "The amendments moved my • M. the goal in view, because 'consistent ,Subash Chandra Bose in favor of with the above, nothing in this re- plete independence was lost by 1,350 solution shall , interfere with the to 973 votes." carrying on in the name` of the Con - The Time of india grass of propaganda for complete in - elle° of British. connectign as, it sub- * to -day' but am not ' . against it as it exists with the Do- minions. . "There is no reason whatever wily we should seek .00mplete severance or British eonxiection if we are put on towns of perfect equality with the Do- minions. If we are not put on such terms it will not be dominion status; -we will not take a colorable imitation. "It must therefore be clearly nn- derstood that. dominion status bas to be offered and accepted with all its implications, he rights and obliga- tions, .which. both parties will be in honor bound to respect and uphold. But as .Mahatmaji has put it, we 'would not hesitate to sever all con- nection, if severance became .neces- sary through Britaiu's own fault.' It is conceivable that we may be driven "Tae British Navy Keeps'Ahead "The King!" --- A Fine Tribute One of the Many.Hundrede. of Eulogies From U.S.A. The newspapers have made constant reference to the sympathetic interest of America in the filmes of the Icing. It has reoeived in most United States newspapers the chief position in the news pages day after day for Many weeks, and we. wish we epuld give a tithe of the kindly feelings which have been expressed in papers of all shades of opinion: We feel that the typical article by T. It, Xbarra which appears in "Tho Outlook" of Now * * * dependence.' That propaganda will The Simon Commission in India is now be.cari'led on all the more vehem- estill taking evidence, and•until•the end ntly because' the 'compromise' resolu- •of April the members wilt be • busily •tion has : been -passed, engaged • on • their • tremendous task. "The old leaders will be pushed :some idea of -their difficulties will be asidgeand•we• are..quite- prepard with - gathered from the .speech of the Presi- in a year to hear :Pandit Motlial Nehru .dent of. the Indian National Congress,, denounced as a- reactionary or a con - Pandit Nehru, -which is' :;-eperted• in. servative. The :elder men have rats- • the . Times of India. It is important: ed theycannot control, that British readers should realize the kind of speeches that are being made while the Simon Commission is -sitting —a time *hen general political agita- tion should have. ceased and every effort made to helot the Simon Com- mission in its work. The Viceroy's address to the Indian Legislative As- sembly, briefly reported, is a remit.-. ti.: of the importance of this aspect of the situation. We give first, how- ever, a section of Mr. Nehru's speech. He said:— "The Viceroy has uttered two plati- tudes and a threat. The first plati- tude is: 'However much those who ,organize such demonstrations may themselves deprecate violence, they are, when it comes to the point, often -quite incapable of controlling the forces they have excited.' The sec- ond it: 'Those who deliberately em- barkedoil-a course so crude, so sense- less and so dangerous, whatever the object they may mistakenly desire toserve, incur a very heavy responsibili- ty.' "The threat is that 'it is the plain duty of Government to take whatever steps •-it • deems necessary to prevent the recurrence of these discreditable incidents.' "I agree with His Excellency on the first platitude, and would also agree York will delight our readers, and we can only assure them that it is sym- bolio of many. The writer says: "All who have attended bauUuets in England know how Englishmen act when the toast to the King is pro- posed. The chairman gets up and says, King!' Every man present leaps to his feet, raises his glass and touches it to Ms lips, from all over the hall come shouts of 'The King! The King!' "It lasts only a moment; it is done at every banquet held anywhere in the British Isles. Yet there is never anything perfunctory about it. Into his attitude as he stands and raises bis glass, into his enunciation of those two short words, every Englishman puts an unmistakable something of affection and reverence, a ring of reverence for the monarch wa: not pride and loyalty, which cannot but blended with affection for a kind and strike even the most anti -monarchical of republicans with admiration. "It is the same at the close of every theatrical performance in Britain when the orchestra plays 'God Save the • King!!' That, too, lasts only a moment; it comes when men and women are preparing to leave the theatre, when they are reaching for wraps and hats. 'Yet here also there is absolutely nothing that savors of the perfunctory. Every Englishman stands straight and stiff, like a sol- dier; every woman's face expresses genuine feeling; .in the ;presence of. such sincerity every: foreigner of good taste must needs •put into his•' own attitude at least • the -outward sem- blance of a similar •homage. "The feeling svhieh.,the -British have for their sovereign was admirably_ shown during •the :,days when King George V lay dangerously ill in Buck- ingham Palace. All day and until far into the night thousands of men, women and children stood outside the palace gates. Eervy bulletin was eagerly read as soon. as it was posted; many in the crowd copied down.every word . in these bulletins in order to tell those' at home exactly what the doctors said about King George's -con- dition. "Iii the crowds were people of every class; -nobles- and prelates rubbed el- bows with humble folk from the Lon- don slums; all had become equal in their soli^etude for their King. And, exactly as at banquets when the sov- ereign's health is proposed, exactly as in theatres when 'God Save the King' is played, there was not a trace, among the thousands who stood in silent vigil outside the great gates of King George's residence, of idle. curi- osity or mere perfunctory desire to watch a 'show.' "Every Englishman and English- woman in those crowds was there be- cause he or she was genuinely wor- ried. The feeling which brought those crowds there was the same feel- ing that underlies those joyous and robust toasts to 'The King!'—the same feeling exactly, but shrouded in silence, as if the sick man's subjects stood in the royal sickroom. No Subject Oversteps It "Amercans who have lived in Eng- land' aro aware of the English indi- vidual's attitude toward his King and the other Members of the British royal family. In his conversation about them, free though it may appear en- perfically, there is au invisible bar- rier which is never overstepped. And just as no British subject ever over- steps it, no foreigner with a regard for decency will seek to pass it, "He will let an Englishman tell anecdotes about his King and Queen, about the Prince of Wales .and his brothers, which could scarcely be bet- tered for frankness; he will let him express semi -humorous opinions which, taken seriously, smack cf tise-majeste. But—if he he a foreigner of penetra- tion—he will be constantly on his guard as to what comments lie may himself contribute. "For the barrier is always there, no Keep from her :chis the rumble of matter how intangibly—woe betide a crowd, the alien who permits himself a re- The smell of rongh-cut wood, the trail of red, The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud That wraps the strange new body of the dead, LAUNCHING OF BRITAIN'S NEWEST CRUISERH.M.S. Dorsetshire, the latest addition to the British navy, launched recently at Portsmouth., England. The Dorsetshire, the latest in 10,000 -ton cruisers, is showu sliding down -the ways, A . Tragedy of the ZOO '1'h Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Engn nd, unbar the heading, "A Prise° ed a storm whit ones ]Leased," tells a sad story from and. Mr: Gandhi, quite oblivious of which the following was taken: how his former prophecies and pro- don The o giant orang-outang ad g outHe died of at the Lnmises were falsified, is 'rejecting the tuber - whole teaching of his experience. eulosis; probably acquired at Sings -- "Not only is he promising Doman- pore, whence he had been brought PM Status within a year, but he has with his mate and baby from the for - once again begun to talk on organiz- ests of Sumatra. Anyonesquatwho ng onsaw ing that non -co-operation which he the patriarchal his knows from his previous Himalayan bench at Regent's Park, immobile, blunders cannot be- non-violent. The woe -begone, and long-suffering, malt ill to -best thing that can be' said.for havehat in doing this is that he has given Gov- ernment a very •cleat' warning." - , The Viceroy's Reply Lord Irwin, in his address to the Indian Legislative Assembly recently said:— • "I see very clearly that nothing but harm can flow from the threat that unless a particular condition is ful- Slled,•whcb. I believe to be mechani catty impossible of fulfilment from the outset, an attempt will be made to plunge the country nto all the pos- sible chaos of civil disobedience. "I recognize that,, although! many leaders and schools of political opin- ion in India will refuse to 'walk along the dangerous paths of non -operation, many of them openly profess distrust of the attitude of Great. Britain to- wards this country, They say, and would have others to believe, that hitherto Great Britain has given no with him on' the second it her could substitute the word 'natural' for the words 'crude and senseless.' But both platitudes have no relation whatever to actual facts, An Extraordinary Justification i "In regard to the former, I have to point out that it has been estab- lashed to our 'entire satisfaction by public statements of responsible In- dian leaders, wheels, no amount of de- partmental inquiry can controvert, that all the violence at these demon- strations was started by the police, and attempts made by the people at one or two places to retaliate were speedily, put down by their leaders: "But if a stray ,'missile struck a motor -car, one of the occupants' 'of which happened to be a lady, or some men in the large crowds came too near the great Commissioners and waved their black flags in proxi- mity to their highly respectable noses, is it a matter afloat which any fuss need be made? I am sure that under similar circumstances: worse things would have happened in England, "The recent murder of a police of- ficial at Lahore has provided an ex - ruse to those whose minds are already. made up to forge new weapons to destroy the ,forces of• nationalism, It need hardly bet said that we deeply regret the cringe, Congressmen, whether belonging to, the school of • independence or:that of dominion status, stand, and have always stood, for a policy of strict non-violence and have given practical proof ' of the sincerity of their coiiviotione on num- erous occasions, including the reeent incidents at Lucknow, Cawnpore rand Patna.. t- ar have explained ;my position more- thee ore-than once, but with yourpermission 1 shall re -state it heap as , 'clearly as 1 tan. To put it in a nut -shell, it domes to this: I am for complete independ- ates man fromtheug Jones, enbe--as complete as It eau be --glut Sir Hobart from the lower animate,—Central Palace. TOL ; ,,,O!i1 To PRU C . Ten -year-old Eva -Itibeert, New- castle, one of those who told a story of suffering and privation to the Prince of Wales during his vi.,it to the poverty-stricke i mining areae, 'The King!' at his next iu England. "For the:e is something Ile about the attitude of the kiegli;sh toward their King and his family. It has nothing servile about it, nothing in- sincere. Nor is it something merely impersonal. In the solicitude of King George's subjects, during the dark days of his illness, there was a great deal of genuinely personal concern. "There was nobody in the crowds around Buckingham Palace whose °creatures from. •their native heaths; -:and shutting then in a cage --nor what? For man's. amusement. How can it amuse anyone? We have no right to do it. They do not belong to us. They are not molesting us. We have no right to condemn them to life. imprisonment than eve had to bring. human being from Africa and enslave them, It is against the spirit of the Golden Rale. Would we like an orang-oiitang to capture' and imprison us, to amuse leis fellow gangs? The idea fills us •with horror. Then why inflict upon an innocent animal treat- ment We would shudder at for our- selves? Why not take moving pic- tures of these animals in their native felt that hehadlostthew haunts and use them for educational 1 live, Ho ne-sickness an d the humtlla,,, purposes and let th, originals remain tion of captivity had broken- the heart .laappy? There is no pleasure of that strange parody of humanity. To see him try to console his mate was pitiful, and When their baby died the pair lost their last hold on life, Marcus—so his keepers called him- will probably be united with mate and child as a stuffed group in annu- swim where people will marvel again at the old male's five-foot ?ong arms and his huge, flattened face with the puzzled eyes. We understand that the London Zoological Society does not propose to repeat the experiment, which came to a tragic close recently. The one bright spot in the narra- tive is the announcement that the London Zoological Society is not going to repeat the experiment. When, oh when, will the powers that be see the tragic injustice of bringing these poor sufficient proof of her intention to ful- fil the pledge Mr; Montagu gave on behalf of his Majesty's Government in 1917, and that Great Britain is seek- ing to forget or deny the high 'folio* there enshrined. "I tell this Assembly again, and through them India, that the declara- tion of 1917 stands, and will stand for all time, as the solemn pledge of the British people to do all that can -be done by one people to assist another to attain full national political stature, and that pledge so given will never be dishonored. And I will add that I :should not be standing before you here to -day as Governor-General if I believed that the British people had withdrawn their hand from that selene covenant "Gentlemen of the Assembly, though we may differ on all other is- sues, let us not readily or lightly im- pugn the good faith of one another, for that is to destroy, the very founda- tion of all hope of better things.. "Those, therefore, who can guide public opinion in this country are do- ing no service to India if they accus- tom her to think lightly of disobedi- ence to .constituted authority, what- ever `the title by which such disobedi- ence' May be described." The Unity of the Empire Saint John Telegraph -Journal (Ind.) : Already the Empire exists as some- thing approaching a customs union and is daily becoming more truly 80. The Empire will eventually be the greatest, the most comprehensive and the most self-oontaiued customs union in the world. Membership in'that will be far more valuable to a Dation than membership in either a turopean or American union, The power to say "No" different: - watching. misery—at least there should not he, if we are civilized. Inter -Empire Trade Manitoba Free Press (Lib.) : Iuter- Etupire trade has much to commend it. In a business way and in a senti- mental way, it offers many attractions. The trouble comes when something happens tha mixes business and sen- timent, The idea of turning the Bri- tish Commonwealth into an economic unit offer's fine material for a speech by an ultra -loyalist; but that seems to 'be about the sum of it, We are anxious to have world peace, but see no reason for fighting over it.. conscientious individual. This feeling was excellently summed up, King Georgelay critically ill, by a writer in the Sphere. "'' are sick and tired of a decade of public worship of the Golden Calf,' he wrote. 'We are weary of the vul- garity and inanity of a Rag Press written by the abysmally iguoraut and base for the abysmally silly and vain. To -day r:t -accident has given a tongue to our subseonscious thought. We are brought to our tenses by a pic- ture of a simple, honest, patriotic Englishamn, t.ou:•r eeously fighting with illness largely attributable to a stern. performance of duty, who has kept the falai, kept the narrow path. kept silence, striven onwards, in an age of self-seeking. self-justification, self-indulgence. \ e. at length esti mate at its true value the example set from t'te throne.'' Another Realm "0f the millions of words published about King George, I cannot pretend to have seen everything. Nor has anybody else," writes Mr. P. Wilson, a well-known British journalist, resi- dent in America, in the Christian Her- ald of New York. "But I have a fairly full -record of his, career, and I seem to find one positive hint alone, at any rate in print, of the clue to his immense per- sonal influence. Some years ago he allowed it to be stated that, as a boy, he had promised his mother to read the Bible every day, and that he had kept the promise. That is the source Of wisdom which has never tailed him. "If King George V had been a Bour- bon, living at Versailles, every cour- tier, would have witnessed these devo- tions. But in London there is .a hone within the palace which is as private as any other Englishman's castle. It is in that home where the King and Queen breakfast alone that the Bible is read. It is He who sees in secret that rewards openly. "If King George V has retained his joy in service, his' smile, his tender- ness to children, and, in a word, his character, it is because day by day the world around him was excluded from a realm within him over which there has reigned Another than he." Prayer for aMNew Mother The things she knew, let her forget again— The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold, The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men Piling their cumbrous gifts of foreign gold. Let her have laughter with her little one; Teach her the endless, timeless • songs to sing; Grant her her right to whisper to her son The foolish names one dare not call a king, mark about the British royal family of a sort which a Briton. may consider as beyond the bounds of good taste. Unlike a native of Italy or some other monarchy where men have fiery blood, there will be no theatricalism; no excited challenges to a duel. Everybody Who Knows the English "The Britisher will simply give that foreigner a freezing look; maybe be will follow up with a freezing retort. And everybody who knows the Eng- lish knows that, in the whole length and breadth of this universe, there is not a nation capable of competing with them in the gentle art of freez- ing! . "So the foreigner, if he be wise, h � y ,d y•.• c { Y§�°, � i " E<_ tr',' *k .*•=. will let the Briton do the talking -, About the British royal family. ,Luso, � PRtee ER U,&, AVIATRIX TRIES OUT AN OR1ENTATOS if he bWise, he will, goodwill, iny terests o put i the Ruggles-0rientator, a device used for testing of international g linto hisu Amelia, pilot tries outthe Grand soinething of a sincere ring applicants for pilots' licenses,` at the New York Aviation Show at voice when he responds to the toast Ah let her go, kind Lord, where mothers go And boast his pretty words and ways; and plan The proud and happy years that they shall know Together, when her son has grown a - man. --Dorothy Parker in The Bookman (New Yolk). late We don't know a millionth of one per tent.. about anything,—Thomas A. Edison. The niau of mediocre abiiitg wouldn't be so successful iht politica if be had %erne competition. from well- trained iuinds,----Jrseph V. McKee.