Show I I Ii i WHO'S I NEWS c THIS I I WEEK By LEMUEL F. F F PARTON TEW NEW YORK YORK Mahatma Mahatma 1 has hns indicated that in his opinion opinIon opinion ion a R world war against Adolf Adoll Hit Hit- Hitler Hitler hither ler her would be Justifiable and possibly necessary The Understudy of British with I I Gandhi Calms their T Towar d jn British i live tive Job of at keep keep- ing ng their great Indian empire In hand probably arent aren't worrying about Gandhi More Important Is the attitude and activity ity of or his vigorous and popular un understudy un- un understudy I the year old Pandit I Nehru The latter has been boldly resistant to British rule spent six years In Jail and has ac III acquired ac- ac acquired popularity and leadership as Gandhi reaches his seventy-second seventy year Meager news reports from In India India dia dla indicate that Nehru has lias hll been ben calming down In his agi agi- agitation agitation tation against British Imperial Imperial- ImperialIsm I Ism hat I m and that a few wrecks weeks ago 1 I he was vehemently denouncing I fascism and the new German Lerman aggression Joli London U Is re rr- reassured re- re reassured assured but watchful as Asia may become a balance of power I I In the clash of world dominions and Nehru has been bren an au active e I propagandist of pan pan doc doe doctrine doctrine trine trim summoning browns brown and blacks to resist what he believes j to be the time aggression of at the whiles unites Horn Born of ot a n noble caste Nehru was educated at Harrow and Cambridge taking honors in the classics His father tather the Pandit Nehru was a n lawyer and the richest man manin manin in lIe He gave away his mansion and moved Into a shabby little house when he became a con can convert convert vert ert to Indian nationalism His Ills son reared In splendor had no such Ideas Mas when he came a me home from England 1 lie was wal a 1 strong supporter of the British regime until the massacre mas mas- massacre massacre sacre of 1919 Then he burned Ms hits 50 British suits donned na na- native native native tive dress and became an agi agi- agitator agitator agitator for the Nationalist cause caUlt However tr he hr h was no devotee of loin cloth asceticism He lie was all for fighting lighting and It was teas as the most belligerent of or all aU the In Indian In- In dian hian leaders that he tic came to the time presidency of the tho Indian all-Indian congress In 1935 Nehru was at times sharply op opposed posed to the resisting non Gandhi but apparently their differences have been resolved lie is handsome hand some and engaging n a vigorous as as- assailant assailant of the ancient caste system of at India IT IT WAS not until a n year ago ngo that Remain Rolland Holland returned to France after alter more than 20 years years' exile in Switzerland He lie had hod op op- opposed posed war Say SeVe e Lamplighter oral eral years he be- Sees hope Only fore tore he finished I In I Inner L' L Jean Chris ht n WS Light Ig Sol had called him The Conscience of at I Europe He Is a pallid old man mannow mannow now with thinning hair and sad sod set deep eyes ees but still above the theba battle ba HIe and still trying tring to arouse rouse II the conscience of mankind He lie dispatched to the New York International congress of the Amer American ican lean Musicological society a ames mes mes- message message sage of good will It is quoted here herein I in accord with this departments department's wartime alertness to such men and messages He lie says In n the field of art there U is I not not there there should not be any be-any any I rivalry am among on nations The only combat worthy of us Is that tha t tI I which Is waged waed in every ry comma coun country I try try- and at every ery hour between culture and Ignorance between light and chaos Let us save sac sa c all I the light that can be saved ed There is b none more refulgent than music It Is the sun son of the I Inner universe It was this sun that illumined Jean Christophe one of at the great great- greatest greatest I est cst books of at all times published here I just before the World war wear profound profoundly Ily ly moving mo to multitudes of or Amen Ameri Americans I II I cans cons as an avocation of the creative I i and aspiring spirit of cf man Many I times Umes in recent years ears Remain Romain Rol Rol- Rolland RolI Rolland I land has written that the world had hadI I little hope of ot escaping another and andI I possibly last devastating war But I described as an old man broken I and despairing on his return to France last year ear he has contin contin- continued continued continued his plea for peace decrying hatred pleading for understand understand- r.g. ing His has lias been a lone looe voice never Ctr D Identified with move t movements meats ments or political groupings right or left Irr He lie opposed Henri Barbusse and his Clute group and the various united fronts as IS be he did the leaders of ot violent reaction on the right He was educated in music at the Ecole Normale became a devotee otee of cf Wagner and then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare He lie is the evangel of the humane spirit in a day when itIs it itIs itIs Is bard pressed pressed- Consolidated Features WU Service |