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AD 690-66 LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 2. 1943 A-7 Crisis in India Hindus Totaling 275 Millions Ask National Regime Religious differences, are the basis which perhaps isn't so surprising when one casts an eye about the world and notes other countries where these have been, and 1 still are; similar difficulties. Out of these animosities has grown on both sides a distrust which has constantly intruded and made com- else." nection loose or call it something. (Editor's 1 In tomorrow's article, DeWitt Mackenzie, recently from a study of The Indian situation, his discussion of the Hindu-Mostem differences. The following is the eighth in series of 10 articles by the noted war analyst.) By DEWITT MACKENZIE THE Indian political crisis bristles with more dangerous points than a porcupine does.

with quills, but the greatest of these is the Hindu Moslem division which through the generations has been marked by a bitterness that frequently has produced bloodshod In communal rioting. promises hard of achievement. EACH ACCUSES OTHER follows. MOSLEMS SUSPICIOUS This deep division between the parties coached, point where the Moslems charged each other with seeking to rule India. The Brittion evidence that self-governhave, pointed out this situament on a unified basis was difficult.

The Indians charged that the government exploiting these differences in order to tinue imperialistic rule. Nobody explained why the warring factoins, If they knew their quarrel was being exploited, didn't bury the hatchet and thereby, spike the guns of their aversion. Maybe it will simplify this confused Hindu-Moslem mixup if we take a glance at it from this angle: The population of India is estimated at about 388,00,000. There are some 275,000,000 Hinand 90,000,000 Moslems. That is to say, the Hindus outnumber the Moslems by three to one, and I call your attention this because it's the key to much that province of Assam.

JINNAH AGED 66 Now the Hindus are nationalists. They want a national government: which will take in the whole of India. The Moslems object to a national government on the ground that, since the Hindus have a majority of three to I one, the Moslems would be a constant minority without a lookin. The vehicles which are carrying this heavy argument are three organizations whose names have become fairly familiar to the American public. The Hindus are grouped mainly in the powerful All Congress, which is dominated, by Mahatma Gandhi, Hindu Mahasabha, which comprises the more orthodox The All-India Congress claims to be national and to include members of all religions, though its opponents assert that it is.

chiefly Hindu, but I mention this merely in fairness and don't think we need labor the point at all. The Moslems are represented by the powerful All-India Moslem League. This is under the presidency of Mahomed Ali Jinnah, a India's brilliant. lawyer, who one of outstanding personalities, EXPLOSIVE IDEA In Jinnah's forceful leadership the league has developed an explosive idea to safeguard the Moslem minority, against that Hindu, three to one. They call it Pakistan and under that name you, perhaps, will recognize it as one of the rocks on which the Cripps negotiations over Indian self were wrecked last summer.

The Pakistan (land of the pure) program rejects entirely the Hindu program for a national government and aims at the division of India into two wholly autonomous states. One of these would be Moslem and the other Hindu, and each would go its own way. Pakistan is the name the proposed Moslem state, which would include areas in northwest and northeast. India where there are Moslem majorities. The Hindu state would take in the of India.

The exact territory covered by Pakistan is yet to be worked out but roughly it is this: The northwest frontier province, Baluchistan, Sind and Punjab all in northwest India. Then there is a corridor through the united provinces after which there is an other Moslem block comprising Bengal -together with India's greatest port, Calcutta- and the I flew 800 miles from Delhi to Bombav just to see the great man. I was with him a good part of two days and it was time well spent. Jinnah is 66 years old but looks 20 years younger with his slim, dapper figure and unlined face. Iron gray hair adds to the distinction of his appearance, which 1s marked, and he further takes himself out of the ordinary by wearing a monocle on a slender cord and dressing with an immaculate fastidiousness which has made him the Beau Brummel of Indian political leaders.

"I would welcome any move which would dissolve the political deadlock. he said. "But what move could be made to sceure a satisfactory settlement? parliament with a Hindu majority is impossible, It. is menace to Islam. The conception of a united democratic India; having a fedconstitution, is an ImposBible proposition.

That is true whether you call the federal con- Baby's Arms Broken by Attendant Infant Dies From Brain Injury; Rough Treatment Admitted SEATTLE, March: (EP) Mrs. Ardis Parmenter, 23, faced criminal charges today after to police that she broke both arms of 9-month-old Mary Jean Clairmont, who died of multiple injuries three days later. Mrs. Parmenter, who also admitted two of her own children had died after injuries, said that she had "jerked" the infant to stop her erying. An autopsy- -showed the baby died of a brain hemorrhage.

Both arms were broken and she had. suffered numerous bruises. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walplace J.

Clairmont, said they left the baby with Mrs. Parmenter Tuesday after answering her classified advertisement offering to board babies. Mrs. Parmenter phoned the next night to tell them the ill. Mrs.

Parmenter, told officers her 3-month old daughter died last December after suffering a fractured arm, and that another daughter died previously after falling out of bed. A son, she said, was placed in a Montana institution two years ago. Texan Submits Bill to Stop Shut-downs PRING LAVINGS ALE SPRING SALE PLANS ARRANGED -Montgomery Ward executives discuss the advertising and store decorations for the spring savings sale which gets under way at the local store tomorrow. Left to right: F. G.

Leserer, manager of Montgomery Ward; K. R. Parker, merchandise manager, and Bob Johnson, advertising manager. The event, which lasts four days, is one of the most ambitious of its kind and involves thousands of dollars worth of timely and seasonable merchandise made available at sayings. Refrigerator Supply Unequal to Demand refrigerators than anything chairman of the industrial Commerce.

The demand exceeds the DROBABLY more persons run afoul of the priorities regulations in trying to buy new mechanical else, according to H. O. Fox, of the Long Beach Chamber of supply. There has been considerable confusion regarding eligible purtors. The rules relating chases of mechanical, refrigera: refrigerators -to buyers of new houses have been clarified by the ter, War a Production of which Board in has a been let: copy received by the Long Beach in- Chamber of Commerce.

cases where a builder has of PD-428 to buy a specific received, authorization under number of refrigerators for the de houses he is building these rebut frigerators may be sold and livered to him only by the conwar cern or group of concerns aure- thorized to make such delivery. They not sold and deliv. ered may, individual buyer of one of these houses; however, it is permissible for a builder who sells a house with a refrigerator installed, and who does not count the price the refrigerator, in the priee of the the contract for the refrigerator to the buyer of the house. In a case where builder does not intend to take delivery of the refrigerator he should not apply for authorization to do so under Form PD-427. The buyer of such a house who wishes to purchase his own refrigerator should himself apply, for permission to do so, using Form PD.

427. Dealers and others interest- Advanced First Aid Instruction John V. Thompson, chairman of first aid, American Red Cross, announced two advanced first aid classes beginning this month and one standard class as follows: An advanced class will be held at the fire department, 1770 East Hill Street, tonight at 7, with Cap: tain Ray Jenkins, instructor. An advanced class will meet. at Garfield School auditorium, Hill and Delta, Wednesday at 7:30 p.

instructor, Irvin Carpenter. This class will meet on Wednes days and Mondays until the completion of the course. Standard class will meet at 1360 Warren Avenue, Monday, March 15, 7:30 p. instructor, Franklin B. Talley.

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WARDS OPEN FRIDAY SATURDAY NIGHTS USE WARDS MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN PHONE 722-31 113-123 E. BROADWAY TTASHINGTON, March crat, Texas), Introducing shut downs of war plants, told people are spending more time do about Hitler and Hirohito." "There are still some in this country," he said, "who belleve they have a God right to cash in on the tragedy of war. "There are still those who believe that this war can be won ion a part-time, spare-time basis." The Texan explained his billing would "guarantee continuous production of war weapons regardless of how long labor and management might be involved in dangerous and delaying disputes." He would empower the govern: ment to take over operation of a war plant where was found that failure of either management or labor to adhere to War Labor Board findings might cause either stoppage or interruption in production, As -soon as, the dispute was settled. the plant would revert to private management. Drawing on his, own experience of eight months in the Navy, Worley, said he had badly seen planes "with were needed in the southwest Pacific.

"It makes my blood boil," he declared, see a petty, trivial Representative Worley (Demobill to eliminate, labor dispute the House today that too many "thinking of fat profits- that they dispute stop or even slow down the production of HE these planes, and it makes no difference whether such a dispute is the fault of management or labor." Today, he said, labor disputes. "shamefully threaten" to stop west coast -production of bombplanes. "Lack of air power," he said, "contributed largely to our first setback in Africa. This very day we need- more planes to smash German's submarine bases and blast Hitler's arms factories. "We need more planes to push Rommel and his hordes into the it's impossible to hope for vieplanes all ove the world, and Mediterranean.

We need -more without superiority in the air." "A federal government is a trap, Once you are in it you can't get out. A federal link can be developed only if the people are homogeneous. The Moslems and the Hindus are two different nations. They have nothing in common. They have different histories, different languages, different cultures, and different laws.

-It alone a question of religion. Their whole social life is different. Democracy is an alien philosophy of the Hindu and to his religion and to his caste system. There is no social intercourse, among the many Hindu castes. "In attempting to establish national government under such condtions the British are trying.

to grow a peach tree on the sands of the Jumna." (The Jumna is a- river. of northern India where peaches won't grow.) Well, having listened for hours to this line of argument, I began view the prospects of Indian unity through dark glasses. HINTS COMPROMISE I had asked. Jinnah if there was possibility of a compromise of any sort and he hadn't swered me. I finally gave it for a bad job and rose to take my departure.

then did Jinnah pull back with the remark, "Reverting to your question regarding a compromise," and offer to particiin a government in the terest of the war if the British government and the Hindus would agree to the principle Pakistan. Jinnah's language didn't part from his previous stand, the did. His offer with the Hindus in a government, thing. was in Anyway, itself I a came away with the hunch that would be prepared to compromise and agree to a federal government if he were given encouragement. New Insignia for Western Area Troops A new shoulder sleeve insigne will- soon make its appearance on in the western theater of operations, it was announced today by Lieutenant General John L.

De Witt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. The War Department has approved a design. for a two square, one. point up. alvided.

horizontally by a zigzag, line with two points down. lower part is black and the upper part is red. The latter is charged with a yellow conventionalized sun issuing from behind the partition line. The device, the square, is a geometric arrangement of mountains found throughout the Western Defense Command, and it also forms the. letter thus being symbolic of the Western Defense Command and indicating protection.

All nondivisional units assigned to the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, except Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, the Fourth Air Force and Harbor Defense organizations, will wear the new shoulder sleeve insigne, as soon as it is available. Course to Start in Aircraft Engineering A course dealing with the procedure and systems used in air. craft engineering will start Thursday in Long Beach, it was announced from the University of California War Training Office at Los Angeles. The. class, aircraft drafting standards, meets in two identical sections: One, from 11 a.

m. to 2 p. the other, 7 to 10 p. in order that employes on ditferent shifts may attend meetings. Guy C.

Burnham and Fred Dow of Douglas Aircraft's engineering department will conduct. the lectures and discussions, which include drafting, aircraft materials and specifications, A. N. standards, commercial and company standards, limits and tolerances, welded assemblies, sheet metal work and jigs, fixtures, die and mold work. High school graduates or persons with equivalent experience are eligible for the training.

The Long Beach War Training Center. in which harbor area classes are held. is at 236. Fast Third Street, telephone 667-35. Availability at newsstands and from.

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