Atlllosphere of Violence of the Non- Brave

Xo. '3-\'OL.-L1 Fr-ID.\Y. INDIAN'" 5TH JU~l;. 1953

Price 6d. OPINION founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1903

Atlllosphere Of Non * Violence Of The Brave

tlJr\{ D\'IS!i'lG workcrs on how to producc an atlllospherc of non LFU \';olencc of the bravc. Gandhi once said: ...... This depcnds on individual workers culti\'ating- non-violcnce in thought. I\'ord 0/11' !I·:I,;~C.~l I"dll) L' If and dp.rd. by mc,\I1s of a concentrated effort in the fulfilment of the ,::o:c1'al al:'( 1I1:1:'cl"l1l fhr constructive progr:lmme. l\laximul11 01 wor!: and minimum of speech .' ie,r! ./i

I,) II\'~.. ' /1't71 41,.'( (cll: ,:'(1: must be your mottoo. There is thc programme of lilerac!'. You !>CIlI' if. TI:,,', l'1r Ill' must conccntrate e'\c1usivcly on it. and not talk of any other thing. 1"':::0' /'1 ,lbi, ", ' "/ I/:, The work should be systcmatic and according to time-tabl,'. -':"117':. TI.".,., I' 1'::1)' l/i, Don't talk of politics-not even of non-\ iolence-bllt talk to them 111(-,ti,'" rr',~C1! ~,·ilII /i,' of the :ld\'antages of literacy. There is prohibition of drink ;lnd in· Uf}~f11' 11/") -William Faulkner. too' icating- drugs and of ~amblin~. There IS medical relicf by means :"O.bet POle Winner. of the proparation of simplc rules of hygicne and sanitation and

--0- elementary prevcntivc measureS. and of cheap home remedics anel training intelligent \'iJlagers for these. .. Till,' i, ~.,izal I (olllld (lilt ab,>lIt I'd:,;-/"'/' It r;i.·(S All this constructivc work should be lor its own sake. .-\nd yet

) (..1" (~l/tra:"'t~ !(l ll1al.,( Ih" be sure that it will develop the quality reCJuired for non-viOlent r.'", isi"l/S ),,>11 ".;~:! make III rcsponsible government. That is how 1 began my work in Sou~h a (I isi" ,",11' tI,,:, tlu' C01-, Africa. I began with scn-ing them. did not kno\\' myself that I fdo:c,- I,> !ell;', Ih,. r'Sltlt was 50 training myself. :.1 (J /:l~~~/'t:' IJl.~.. I(:"', (July This constructive programme may ~o on endlessly. \\'hy should .'.. ';. :rl"~/ ~/1l (;L,J (lIN a ."hlll c'lrr) il:,,- r"/"',:.,/{.;'I/II /illd you be tired of it? Do you knol\' the hundred years war in England? If ther fought for a hundred years. we should be prepared to fight -Dwight D. Eisenhower. for a thousand years. in as much as wc are a continent. Thus we will have gi\'cn our contribution to the light for frcedom, which will be our reward. That is the mass constructivc prog-ramme I war,t you to do and that is the ba5is of the training for thc non'\'iolencc of the br.l.\'e. It is whole and indi\'isable and those who do not belicve in it whole-heancdly must leave me and work acc.:>rdin 6 to their own light. ~, ' .. 344 IN 0 I AN '0 PIN ION 5th June, 1953 (;he )Vew ::India fissurance C:o"lpany 'cCi11]ifed for FIRE, MARINE, LIFE, ACCIDENT 1919-1950 31 YEARS OF SUSTAINED PROGRESS -The conndencc of the discerning Public in the NEW I NDI~ is amply evidenced by the following records a~ined In .,..,: ~. ~ ~ Fire Premium 1,70,32,179::: Life Business In force Marine Premium 56,04,844::: exceeds .,. 54,34,00,000 Miscellaneous Premium 35,84,968 ,~ Assets exceed 15.3',00,000 Life Premium 1,88,79,302 {: Total claims paid over 17,95,00,000 In the vanguard of Indian Insurance THE NEW INDIA offers matchless Security and Service In all fields of Insurance.

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I .' Sth June. 19S3 INDIAN OP.INION 345 on top ofa volcano and t!H..:re hide and if all IS well with is no knowing when it ma}' South Africa? INDIAN erupt? I n order to make . It is no u~e charging the t;o\'crnment secure Dr. Brit.lin and the outside OPINION :'Ilalan would have both the world of belllg' "contamin \Vhite g-roups to form thel1~ ated U}' politic.d bias .mel FRIDAY. 5TH JUNE. 1953 seh'es into an unitpd frollt an undying h,ltrcd of any against the discontented one .;nd e"crything' which nine million _ non, Whites, is anything elsc than purel}' and in that he seeks the British." The charge is All Is :/Yot Well With 'Africa assist~'1I1ce of the Press and reall}'- and trul)' applicable the people of the United to the I'\atjonali~ts in South HE 5tatcment made of the Union Jlopulation. ld Kingdom and of the war Africa. by our Prime l\linis- When heis tackled abo\H the . and loses his head if it IS If all is wdl with South II ter, Dr. D. F. ?II alan, rest of the three (~lIarLers denied. Africa why is a ban plac.ed gi\'~s on his arriV1\1 in England the anI)' answer he is: Dr. 1'[alan wants the out- on the freedom of speech last week merits some "they arc better off than . side world to in\'estigate and movCl\1ent on praetie thougllt It 5 human na elsewhere." The people . " "- thoroughly and impartially all}' ,JI the non- European lure to resent personal ~oncerned are denied the their sources of information leaders. The fact is that criticism. Praise is always right to speak for them- about South Africa. Why leasin!! but fault-Iinding is sdves, The facts are that all is 1/01 II ell with South P ~ then does his Government most displeasing. Yet a they have been kcpt sup- refuse to allow the com- AI rica and \\ hat Dr i\1 alan ,person can learn' and im- pressed; they are used ,lnd b h and his Go\'crnment claim mission appointed y t e Prove oneself only by not meant to Le used as "hew- as being SJl1lh Africa s United Nations to get a being elated bv the IjJraises ers of wood and drawers of domestic 'luc~tion IS fa~t I • first hand knowledge of the and b'-' humbly acct.:pting water" for the WhIte people.' d' ..S I Af' , I fear if there is nothing to peac.e. adjustments where neces- dian population-number- sar}' and rejec~ing what ing three hundred thousand seems to be not applicable, in a total population of NOTES AND NEWS without bearing malice twelve million are living Apartheid On Coronation servicemen would not be per towards tho'se who have below bread line. These Day mitted to follow Ibe p~r3de of offered the cfllIetsm 111 are only one or two of the mjlil~ry IN Durban the non'European detachments at tbe Oval all good faith. But to most startling and unehal· ex·scrviccmen were not per when hI w~s to t~ke the salute. become intolerant ,md lengable facts. mitted to join the European ex "I know that when Ife were at war we welcomed any assistance, resentful over the least' If all was well with South servicemen and so the detach ments organised a parade on their no mailer what colour it was or crllIclsm shows a sign of Africa hal\' did it happen OlVn at tbe Curries Founuin what language was spoken. Now false pride and a guilty eon- that there was a defiance whcle the salulc was taken by those people who rendered that science. The Nationalists movement at all in which Mr. A. C, Stead, Acting Protector service are being denied their wish to pay homage and show in South Africa, we arc eight thousand peoplt.: were of Indian Immigrants, who was tbe chief recruiting officer for their loyalty to the Queen," he afraid, are suffering from flung into prison? \Vhy were Indians during tbe war. said. both an'd it is hecause of there riots in practicallr all In Maritzburglt was originally Equality "The Only Hope this that they and their the important cities of the arranged by the City Council For East Africa" leader Dr. ?lIalan are not Union and whr did the that non-Eutopean ex-servicemen The chairman of Ihe Royal would take part in. Ihe general Commission on East Africa, Sir able to see light and yet police ha\'e 'to resort to parade and would march in a Hugh Daw, arrived in London imagine that they do so. sliooting and killing people? column behind the Europcan ex by air on Monday night from That is what is ruining \Vhy was it necessary for servicemen. The order of the Nairobi afrer three-aod-a-half South Africa and not the the Government to pass parade had to be altered however, montbs' tour of Kenya, Uganda because of a Government ruling criticism either favourable harsh and inhuman htws such and Tanganyika. At London thai non·European and European Airport he said: liThe main or:unfavourable. as the Riotous Assemblies ex·servicemen must not march conclusion we have reached is Dr. ~Ialan has tOither con- and the Criminal Law Am together in processions on Coro that the communities no lonaer sciously or unconsciously endment Acts? nation Day. It was also intended believe in government on ~he that non·European ex-selvicemen uttered half truths. "All is "The defiance movement basis, of the auperiority of one w~uld not uke part in the march race over another. The only we!t with South Africa," he is dead," -said Dr. :\Ialan. pa~t at the Oval where the Mayor bope for Easl Africa is a com said and asserted that "we Is that rC:lI:y true? Or Mr, D. R. Warmbach took the plete partnership of the three salute. It was- decided later have no unemployment pro- ' would it be truer to say that races-African, Indian and Euro Ihat non-European ex servicemen pean. Sir !-Tugh said the eight blems and no industrial un- it has been suppn:ssed by would have their own mzrch-past members of the Royal Commis. harsh measures on the and the salute would be taken by rest." He probably had in sion had travelled many Ihousands part 0f the Go\"C:rnmt.:nt, the Mayor. of miles, and the bulk of their re mind when he said this' only which in other words means Mr. Warmbacb is reported by port had already been flown home the 'Natal WItness' to have said the \\'hite population which that the Go\'ernment i::. not in the form of memoranda. H~ that he was surprised to see in did not know whtn the com represents less than a quartel" at all secure. It is sitting the Press that non-~uropean ex- plete repore would be published.' ~th O~IN'ON June, 1951 •ND IA-N I Durine recent centuries tbis dn go forward togetber io puc;, Ban On African National .tated by Mr. Jordan K. seeking justice and freedom fet Ngubaoll in his artlole In 8 message has been sustained aod Con8re.. Preside.t all men. prevloDB Issne. The statement, invigorated by tbe immense con Mr. A. J. Lutholl. preehlelll· tribution in language, literature As tbis day draws to its close, gBneral, of the Afrlolln Nallooal he ltales I. 10tl11y inoorreot and and action of tbe ~tiol1S of our I know tbat my abiding memory OonRre.., hae been served wllh mlsleadlog, A detailed .t,te. Commonwealth ovetsCl!. it gives of it will be not ooly the solltQJI. notiJea signed by the Minister ment from tbe OOngrell to 'I expression; as I pray It always of Justloe bllnnlng him from follow, . Ity and beauty of the cercrIlO1lY, will, to living principles III saaed all. pnbllo Ralherlol(& and from but tbe inspiration of your loyalty Cualoma RelJu)"tionl Of to tbe Crown and Mo~rcby as to belnR In any of 21 magisterial and affection. I thank you all Indi. its many Parliamed13 and peoples. dhtrlol., InolndlnR Darban, , f~om I ask you now to cherisb tbem, a full beart. God bless yoo Johllnneeburg and the Oape. It hu oome to tbe notice of and practise them, too: tben \Ve a11.-Sapa-Reuter. 'l'be gronnds of lhe DOtl~es were the Natel Indian Oongre" that the 'esme as those In the oues of pueengeu prooeedlng from Dr. G. M. Noloker, preeldent of South Atrloa to India Ilometlmee C~ALL the Bonth Afrloan Indian Can experlenoe diffioulllel becaole of IS WELL WITH SOUrH AFRICA" gresB, and Mr. M. B. Yengwa, thoir Igno:ranlle of Ouetomll re aeoretary of the Afrloan National gulatlonB. Anyone wlBhlng to DR. MALA.N Oonl/reBB (Natal)-engenderlng aoqnalnt themselvel with the "feellnllll of hoatlllty" between regulations ooverlng baggagel ON his arrival in England last guarded as tbose or tbe Afriluw- Europeane and non Europeane, that aro !111owed to be taken to 'Reck ou~ Prime Minister, Dr. speaking group. India may ob~aln the ncoelllar)' D, F. M.1lan, in a public ~te- "Tbe people of Great Brit2i11 CODgrua Denic. Information from the offioes of ments, as reported by Sapa said, should not allow themselves to The aeoretary of the South the Natal Indian Oongren who "All is well with South Africa, be tfJpped un.a~res into assistiog Ahloan Indian Oongrels has have a oopy of tho lated Import ...we bave no unemployment or countenancing Ibe aeation in sent II denial that the Congress Bal/gago RuleB !rom the OnstctnJ problems and no industrial un- Soutb Africa of another Ulster. met anyone on high level to Dellarlment of the Govemment rest. be it tctritorially or psycbological- let np the Liberal Plirly ae of India. "The defiance movement, which Iy, wbicb the g:reat bulk of was started and engineered and South Africans, of whatever largely financed from outside, is political complexion, would not THE QUEEN'S BROADCAST • dead, and the seemi-military tolerate, and whicb would ceruin- political organisation wbich so I t b d' all my h- rt. I shall .trl've y 00 e con ucve to the IN a broadcast on Tuesday nigbt _1 10 be largely seemed to haVe stirred the . worthy of your trust.'tmagination of creduloU3 people mamtenance• b of tbe goo:! rw- after the Coronation tbe Queen In tbis resolve I have ' tloDS etween South Africa aDd s

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Re'ldence 33-5961 Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia. 340 INDIAN OPINION 5th June, 1'5 LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE I\sian religions, Greek philosophy indistinguishable from betrtn· and Roman law. None of these volkism. The natiorulists bave was uni-racial; none was .ped made their decision. And, witb' THE UNITED FRONT-(I) WHICH ficJlly "European," Each had its all respect, mosr of w who sup roots in 2 past embracing tbe porred the Oppestion at tbe eJec WAY NOW? spirieualllnd inttllectualleg:tcy of three continents. And the funda tion agreed with the Nationalists By C W. M. GELL mental principle on which tbe in our hearts to put race first and whole of European civiliS2tion civilisation second, whencver there Reprinted from I The Forum' (johannesburg) precariously slands' today-the W:lS a clash of colour. We did IF the election taught us one feel that we cannot justify it intrinsic value of the free and not dis.lgree so much about prin lesson it was that there is no morally, c.'lnnot sqU:lre it with our independent individual personal ciples :lnd strategy as about ucUcs ity as the link between the divine future :llong "the traditional South professions of religion or with and metbods of application. Naw :lod the human ;Ind, therefort, as African way" This has been a what we know of the principles we mtC:t be utterly honest with the only possible creator of the more grievouq shock to many tsnderlying Western civilisation, ourselves. Let those wbo in their people than it should have bern. do not even consider it expedient higher ethic:ll and cultural values hearu stand for tbe perm2nent In the first place, once a major since we fe:lr it must quickly that constitute civilisation-is political party has chosen to make divide the Union into implacably shared in slightly varying degrets retention ofexclusive wbite power explicit in irs policy all those opposed white :lnd coloured na· by 2\1 the great spiritual traditions privilege, either as good in itself underlying assumptions :lbout tionalisms with the former out and is the basis of the great or bel:2UlJe they imagine that it i, white superiority and black in numbered four to one (without Iiberal·humanistiC' tradition which the road to se]f-preservaton, go is the most important single ele ferIOrity that were implicit in the reckoning on the proportions just over to tbe N.llionalists and accept ment in Western civilisation. old way. its unabashed herrenvolk over our frontiers) and on the tbe full implil:2lions and dangers ideology will always be :lble to defensive before our own con Thus the latter is no exclusive of harrenvolkism. The rest of outbid the muted version of the sciences and the accus:ltions of possession of one r:lce 0 r one ~ame theme on which the United the world. geogt:lp'.:ical area. Its roots are this article is for those who feeI Party fought the election. Second This article is, theref"r~, c plea as wide as mankind and, while that that way leads to moral rum ly, the small non-European in to tho~e who C:lnnot stomach the its 'present distinctive form w:!! and nation:!l suicide in the besd telligentsia, finally confronted with racial basis of Nationalism to stop shaped by tbe astoniShing tech on collision of mutually exclusive nical energy and inventiveness of the full implications of "white thinking wistfully back to a p.'lst n:ltionalistt1S. supremacy with justice," will in th:lt died with M:lbn's victory in the European peoples during the evlt:lbly react; and, whatever form 1948 and the death of Gener:ll last 400 years, even these'were I will make one reservation, that reaction takes, it will stam Smuts in 1950, and, instead, to originally 'stimulated by the reo however, Total. ap:utheid (i.e., pede our notoriously short-sighted re·cxamine the whole foundation covery of tecbniques and intellec territorial partition with exchange tual processec from the ancient white electorate further into the of their political philosophy so as of populations and complete racial world through tbe Afric·Asian arms of the out-and·out white to formulate a sound and con segregation) n~ed not conflict with racialists. Once this dr:lstic sistent policy for the new South ch:lnnel of Islam and lately have our basic civilised principle, if it polarisation of white and black African era that lies abe:ld of us. owed much to the new multi nationalism has begun, there is I think we shall nearly all agree racial ccntinent of Americ:l. is achieved by mutual consent or no place for more moderate parties with the Nation:llists that "white -. The Nationalist distortion of neutr31 arbitration, thus ensuring based substantially on tbe same civilisation" is something worth the traditio:lal South Africm view our surrender of sufficient laud principl '{l. This is a f:lct the preserving. The phrase is un th:lt "wbite chiltsation" depends 2nd resources to create a viable' U.P. mult now face with com-. fortunate and (as used in this for its surviv:l1 on the perpetual Bantustan. If the NatioO.1.1i3ts country) often deliber:ltely mis· domination of one race group is, plete fr;:mkness. It will never re use tbeir unexpectedly Luge m.:lj cov ~r power along the old road, its leading, implying that civilisation therefore, historical nonsense and majority of the total poll not and skin.l colour are in some directly contr:lry to the basic ority to come out in favour of withstanding. way connected. Th~ only his precept of tbat very civilisation tbis sort of 2p:1rtbeid, we muit Its great and fatal weakness has toric:ll justification for this com itself. However small the civi consider it :IS a mOt:lUy defensible been lack of c1c:lrly-defined prin· placent view is that "white civili lised minority of our non·Euro solution of Our uclal Iimpasse, .::ples. It h~s offered its sup sation" was brought to Southern peans m:lY be, :ln~- political philo despite the crippling material porters a moder:lte1y tempeud Africa by European~. Wh:lt they sophy which identifies .!he bound. s:lcrifices it in\·olves. But to be and modcr:ltely good :ldministra· brought, however, was European aries of civilis:ltion with tbose of applied in :1 just manner it re thn based on the concili:ltory or Western civilisation-a cul tbe race or colour groups is using arrog~· wisdam of a. few outst:lndiog tural, ethical :lnd technic:l1 herit standards of judgment al ien to quires a humbling of wbite personaltties. When these left age which W:lS evoh'ed :lmong the \Vestern civilisation. Whenever t'nce and 3 willingness to tre2t ;IS the sccne, the party WJS str:lndcd mixed European, Asian and Afri in their historie~ European peoples betweeen equals, which N.ltiona). without personalitks or policies can peoples inhabiting the Euro have forsaken their ide:lls and ists seem unlikely to altain in the and, if! the meantime, the "puri pean geogr:lphical :lrea. It has, stand:lrds, they have paid the foreseeable future. ficd" Nationalists Iud had the therefore, no uni·r.:Jcial basis. price in the decay of civilisation good politic:ll sense to develop to Ap:lrt from its technical -aspects, and the loss of freedom, as in tbe their logical conclusion such social wbich :lre compar:ltively superfi N:l::i :lnd Communist experiments. principles :lS wcre taci t1y assumed cial, the", essence of civilis:ltion With tbe Swart Acts we seem to WANTED :1 healthy fairlook- :IS the background of the U.P. consists of its system of cuhur:ll be setting :l simiIJr Course. iDg Protestant Tamil Bride from attitude. Dr. Malan thus had standards and moral values. We have, therefore, to decide' a good flmily for :l Young man the edge in consistency :lnd Without these, its materi:ll inven wbether in our inescap:lble multi- holding good positi"Q in Por coherence, once it was more or tions merely enable it to perpet udal settlng we are guing to luguese East'Africa. Must speak less :ldmltted that tbe basic prin rate bigger :lod better barb:lrities, apply the tests of Western dvili. fluent Tamil and English :Iud ciple of both' Nationalist and U.P. until the decay of moralitr :lnd s:ltion or s~methiDg else-some- should be below 22 years old_ . policy was tbe preservation of the cult of force have brought .us thing- which, however fervently Apply to: c'o 'Indi:m Opinion: tbe white community's monopoly Phoenix. to the brink of the extinction of we to;,,}' rep~di:1te the charge, is of privilege :lnd pOIYer. One of the human uce by atomic :lnd the more conservative dailies in bacteriological warfare. On its its past·electio1l IC:lder said th:lt much smaller stage the white "polici,s not parties prevail," We community of South Africa simi. HANNON'S DETECTIVE AGENCY (PTY.) LTD. fought :IS :l party whose principle' Iarly explollS its monopoly of MllIlA:::lng Director:. O. HANNON. !CVCIltecu ~ Ro:rallrlsll Constabu/ Crlmlnlll1n111Stl~Uon the N:ltion:lltsts have :lppropriated physical power to perpetU:lte a ond DerartJntnt. SoA. Police. . ary and somewh:lt perverted. Mal1:l\:Cr: l\UNDEN PLUi\fL£Y••'ex-Hcndon PolIce Coli llDd morally and r:ltionally indct'ensible IQTellUl1"tlOD Departmenl. New Seolbnd Yard, ~dOD_ CrfmlDlll M:lny of us, however, do not situation. . Crlmlnal, Commercial nnd "'lalrlmooW Intestil:lltloll3 Carr! d 0 like the impltc.1tinns of this prin Now the .moral aed culluul In Slrlctest Confidence. • c ut ciple when it is stripped of 'ilS v:llues of Western civilisation ll/t2 ~..t••• (~..L.". J'Ppdlrtcl: r.o: IIo,S199 J.~..~1Uf trimmings and reservations. We derive from three primary sources,, . Ph.om-llllie., 22-77'1't. Altcrhollfa: 24-4S-U. ' 3<49 5th June, 1953 INDIAN OPINION

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S/~Wre extra _ F:-\ n' - tecship Council of the United standards. These standards could genuine local aUlhorities. .eru.ltive in (cr'\~ '" V ~ NatioD!. In compuable circum be set at an agreed level. What There is no reason why tbe ~td'":~:~'g ••,~~ slances in 1946, the Colonial Offi. ever level is chosen, such as piss educated urban middle class Afri- with CutlCUr.l ~'• ce abandoned the principle after ing a certain form of school andl cans and the rural tribesman Taleum Powder having first itself proposed it as cool.< tbe skin. •• ' or earning, say, £50 :I year-for 'should not both enjoy political allays eb.~rl1lg - • the basis of the constitution of the low standards prevailing in representation by different means nndeosureslastlng COJnIart.Mather the federal assmbly that now' the colonies must be kept in mind at tbe same time, tbe'lirst on the will just.' low its distinctive exists in East Africa. -the great majority, probably common roll and tbe second by ,...:rrume nnd exquisite fragr.uu:o. The problem of political repre over 95 per cent. of the African in~irect voting. ~it.herto, tbt sentation in a mixed societ)' is a STOPS CHAFING l people would 'at present f;lil to elClstence of tbe majomy of illi. ~ 549 .e ~ ,I • 0- 35' lth June, 195J INDIAN OPIN ION To tbe extent that this Indian alliance between ourselves and AFRICAN VIEWPOINT cannot be free, no maUer what the Indian is becoming an - ' be doc,. as long as wo are issue of life Bnd death for lbe A NEW BRIDGE BETWEEN INDIA oot free, he and I have n cnm- man of colour in this country. .. .. The road we have taken with AND AFRICA mon pohtlcal destiny 10 the tbe local Indian allow. of DO world. Both of us are called turning·back. We just bave to By JORDAN K. NGUBANE upon to fight an evil which _ keep on marching forward, works for our destruction- until victory. If we part RECENT inue 01 'India The more we, of Africa, under simply because wo happen Dot in the way, disaster will come A ~ eWI' contain~d the report Itand India's real intentions in to have while skins. He is our o~r way and the only man w~o 01 a function in Eire in which Africa, the better we shall · Will be helped by that wJ1l est tI~nd and a. true lover of be Malan. I thinla all of us the Indian Ambassador pre- uoderstand the Indian in our b f bu~anlty w~o WIll belp us to Ihould at all times worry our seoted pritel to Eireano children· midst and, as a result, tbe stronger'"will be the bonds be bUild our alhance on very firm selves over how best to devise won in a world competition foundations. That is why I ways and means to Itrengthen organised for the children of tween us. an South African,. propose a Nehru Prize for Peace the b~nds that tie us. The the world by the Iodian weekly, With tbat, tbe day wm come Between Africa aod India. It MalaDltes are no~ asleep. They 'Shanker's Weekly." nearer when we and tbe In. will be a lasting bridge to seal work day and D1ght to !?Jake us The priz:es themsellei were dian 8ball be free men and ·· . quarrel and to spreEd mlsuuder' women in the land of our th e .bonds whIcb link! us wllh standing. If tbey do tbat, let quite alright for the childreo. IndIa. us always reply by using IU· Hut what struck me about tbe birth. Most people in this counlly perior weapon-Jibe intellec I should like to see step. whole competition was that do not as yet realise that tho tual amity. It was one 01 tbe fioest con taken to defeat the Donges ban tributiool to world peace. The in a more positive and more youog of all races were bro".lgbt creative wa}-and in a field togetber and bad awakened whe:e no dictator can have in them tbe cOn!cioume~' 01 his way: in the intellectual Man'l commoo oriRin aod '·.Iln':l held. For eXflmple, there would common destiby. W,: need IDore be 80mething like tbe Nebru and mOle activitlel '" bicb Prize 01 Peace Between India bring together the childrc u of and Africa. It would be tbe \'Tcrld. For chil-:lren who awarded preiodically to men hlve crown up un1erstar din,; 3nd women 01 every tace wbo tbeir eqllals in otber lands will would have dOlle the malt with. no~ be resdily sus :eptibi ~ to in a given period to better Afro.Indlan relation9. There iodoctrination by the 1 ace I. hll.ters of the world. We can should be no colour bar in it: B. S. N. CO. ltd. liBVll our cbildren from the everybody should be eligible. 5.5. Karanja arriving June 28. Salling July 3 podls which threateD us in our Such a prize among bther via Karachi and Bedibunder {or Bombay time. by en~bling thcm to },nolV tbing~, would create an at· Passengers must coluorm with the Vaccination and Yellow Ilnd appreciate tbe ,~bildre 1 in mosphere of intellectual amity Fever innoculation requirements and obtain certificates from their other lands. Anything" hicb between Africa and India. nearest District Surgeon. Innoculation by and certificates from ellables our children to rolV That, in itself, is a very valu. private Medical Practitioners will not be accepted. up in an atmosphere of human able bridge to build. It would brotberliness deserves the IUp awaken African interest in tbe FARES DURBAN TO BOMBAY port of all men of goodwill. true significance for the world First ClaSJ single without food £75-15-0 1 trust, for this reason, tbat of India'a culture. At the mo. Second .. .. ., .. 50-13--0 when next 'Sbanbr's Weekly' ment 1'Ie hear a lot about Inter-Class .. .. II 34-3--0 organises' another world com' India'S culture. Certainly there Unberthed (Deck) without food ll-3-tI petition it will include South must be somethiog in a culture Muslim Speeial Food £11-10-0 Ordin;uy Food £4-17-6 African childrtn of Afncan, which can present tbe world with Hindu Special Food £10-3--0 OrdInary Food £4-5--6 Indian and European descent. as potent", method for making Bookings tor 1st, 2nd, Inter-Class and Unberthed (Deck) can Thi. gives me an idea. Tbe our world freer as ,atyagraba. be effected by communication with us by telegram or letters. fact that tbe adults in South But beyond that, India's cui· Under no circumstances will unberthed passengers be Africa have been brought up ture is very much like a light p~rmitted to keep on deck with them more than one bed· on racial luspicion or hatred put under a vessel-instead of ding roll and one trunk {or use during the voyage. does not mean that nothing being put on a hill-top to For further particulars apply to- Ibould be done to break down radiate light in a. darkened the barrien which divide us. world, very much in Deed of SHAIK HIMED & SONS (PTY) LTD. Bome yean ago tbe Government light. 01 India .tarted the practice of We, non-whites of the world, 390 PINE STREET, Telephone 20432, DURBAN. letting alide certain funds every have to accuitom ourselves Tel. Add.: "KARAMAT." year for tbe purpose 01 giving mOle and more to the concept a few Aldcans professional of a common political destiny training in India. This W'll for tbe man of colour in tbe nothing more than a gesture world as the first prerequisite DHIRUBHAI P. NAIK of Indian goodwill towards tbe to convince the West that colour Tra..l, Insaran~ & Geoet'llt A~ol people 01 Africa. But Malan'. is an unreliable criterion by Government does not believe which to judge human values. Book ..Illi II' for roar tranUiog by Air, Sea or Land eitber 1o India in goodwill. He who tries to The people of Africa are not or 10 any part of tbe ..or/d. bring together men with dif· free to.day. They and their ferent racial backgrounds is lands arc being exploited by All tYPt5 or In'Ut:losoul relt P.O. nox ~643, Cape Town, firat clan tailorl. He was re- in peace. two members of the Company's Cape Province. Indian stnff received Good Service Awnrds for 25 yeBrs. Wedding In Limbi unbroken service and six others The marriage ceremony of DUFFS ROAD ItJDIAN TOWNSHIP received Good Service Awards Pushpallon silter, of Mr. Maou for X& years' unbroken service bhai Amio, of Limbi and Nat· DON'T DELAY varlal Amin of Nllirobi, toola from the Company's Chairman, place at the premiles 01 Meuu. ONLY 14 RESIDENTIAL SITES LEFT Mr. A. D. Gourley. The 25 Amin aod Patel in Blantyre on ALSO VALUABLE TRADING SfTES years' service awards, which May ~J, in the presence of II tooll the form of frllmed certi lar~e crowd of friends and rela. Now proclaimed for fndian Occupation & Ownership. ficates, were awarded to Mr. J. lives. The w!ldded couple 'were b~ VirabadranBnd and Mr. Jinku the recopients of many blellinKI Transfers can obtained immedialely. Batohi. (nlicribed watches for aod valuable Rifh. A tea party All permits granted. was giveo in hooour 01 the is years' service went to Mr. wedded couple by Shri Patel \Vithin easy rail and bus transport t0 Durban. F. Subramoney, Mr. R. Than Seva Samaj at the Indian Sportl Only 10 miles from Cit) Hall. jappen, Mr. Ponnwamy, Mr. R. Club, Limbi when Mr. K. p. Subr.llmoney, Mr. Munsamy Patel on behalf of tbe Or All on easy terms. Naidoo, and Mr. B. Ramanah. Ranislltion welcomed the Amin Tbe custom of presenting Good family of Nairobi and exprened 15% DEPOSIT. BALANCE SPREAD OVER 5 YEARS. Service Awards to employees 01 a sense of profound joy at tbe happy union of the two lamilies. GOOD ROADS. LOW PRICES. Lever Brothers was started by the Company's founder, the At Port Elizabeth first Lord Leverbulme, in igo5, The Feather Market Hall in VOSEY, BOSHOFF & CO. (PlY.) LTD., are these tokens of recognition Port Elizabeth was the scene 291 Smith Street, are extended to all members of much activity, when four DURBAN. PHONE: 28954. of the stlllf, irrespective C'f newly -wedded couples l'ointly celebrated the occasion 0 their colour or creed. weddinlls whicb was followed by a tea party. The wedded Book On South :African ('ouples were Mt and Mrs C. D. Non.European Cricket Raga, Mr and Mrs R. Merchant, !\Ir and Mrs D. N. Madhoo, and The .long felt need lor an Mr. Dnd Mrs. S. Parsbotam. authori"tive reference and reo About 500 ~uests inclUding cord booir, on "non-European" many Coloureds were present at Cricket will be met in the near the function. Mr. C. Daya luture. The boola will be mo acted as M.e. Among the .peak delled on the lines 01 tbe fam ers at the function were Messn. R. G.Varma, Bhettay, Dr. Appa. ous "Wisden"-the Cricketer's voo, Manilall Rllncbhod /lnd R. bible. The Almanaclll will Kara. Mr. N. Umley moved in cover all the important Non vote of thanks. European Natienal Tourvament matches. A resume 01 the Soutb ~ African Federation matches, WANTED with detail scores etc. The An English educated, Hindu honour of being chosen as the Tamil teacher (married peNon) Cricketers's of the year, will possessing at least a Matriculation !Ie bestowed fittinGly upon Certificare in Tamil, with a .ound five outstanding Non.Europelln teaching knowledge of the T,unil Oricketer's in South Africa. language, its litenture, :lnd reli. Statistics apart, the volume gious philosophy, to act as a will contain It number of Principal of the H.Y.M.A. Free articles 01 absorbing interest, Tamil School. The Almanacl.l will be edited The applicant will be required and compiled by Mr. D. N. to serve for a term of three years Ban.da lind Mr. S. Reddy. on :I service contract, :It a fiat Both are well·known . Cricket monthly s.lary of £22/10/0 (in ••• HOI~ om I '0 I.ll if adminltrators in South Africa. clusive of costs of living), no in. an anlis"plic i. T'liable_ and safe ". Mr. Bansdll is the B~cretar7 crements. The ~ervice contract of the South African Indian may be renewed on frelh .ap During the past ten years, In Hospit:lls, in surgi<::ll Cricket Union and Western Pro proved rerms and conditions. and maternIty wards, :lnd in :lccident cliniCII, the vince Cricket Federation. Mr. Free quarters (inclUding electric Reddey is the Secretary of lights) are provided. Applicants dependability :md safety of 'Detto!' have been proved the Eastern Province Cricket to state qu:llifications :lnd enclose beyond doubt in lilerally millions of cases. In minor: \ Board of Control and President copies of testimonials and certifi accident, and major operntlon, indeed, whenever Weedon of the Eastern Province Indian cites. ,Cricket Union. Besides their Please OIpply to : ihre:ltcns, doctors, surgeons :lnd nurses, In Soilthem ndminstrative duties both bave S. Muthray P/lly & T.S. ROIjah, Africa :lnd throughout the Commo~~e:llth, protccl their played representative cricket. Jt. Hon. Secretaries, An appeal is made to all H,Y.M.A. Educatlonl Trust. patients, nnd them.elvcs, with DETT'0...'" L Cricll:et adminstrntors in South P.O. Box 290, Africa, lor their co-operation Pilltermarltzburg. - THE HOD E P. NAN TiS EP ii·c in presenting the first nnd only ~tCKITT .. COL MAN (A F RICA) LTD. P,O.BO x r097. CAPE TOWN ~ -31 111 ..._ 5th June, '753 INDIAN OPINION 353

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