| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Indian Troops Invade Endanger Country's Shaky y Peace Russia Confuses Crisis in Berlin By Uy Dr BiU DiU Stall Staff NOTE NOTES Wb When n ni see ar r In there thul he l mai th the they are f thou that N If aDal and aDd not nol st Western Newspaper UnliT news DIWI analysts nal r. r INVASION Events In India were a far fat cry from the days when Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of passive diplomacy prevailed among the affairs affairs af fairs lairs of that sub Indian troops strongly supported by armored units had invaded the princely state of see map whose Moslem ruler ruler called called the Nizam had Nizam-had had refused to join with the other Indian dominions even though population Is predominantly Hindu THAT WAS TilE THE whole story The Nizam and his small compact Moslem Mos lem lam court would not agree to follow the other Indian princely states In acceding to the Dominion of India which was established last list year The Nizam often olten called the richest richest rich rich- est man in the world and the only surviving heir of the great Mogul empire wanted to rule an Independent ent Whether he be could have bave succeeded In in doing that even enn if ii the dominion government had bad not opened hostilities ti ties s against him is questionable Is completely landlocked and has no access to the sea except by courtesy of the states surrounding surround surround- ing It All of Its imports and exports therefore must pass paIlS through India WHILE might profess profess pro pro- fess its independence as a state chances are that the economic and political conditions of actual inde independence never could be achieved Can Indias India's invasion of be justified Not too easily if at all It was not a matter of sending a police force into the state to quell Internal disorders It was apparently apparent ly a deliberate act of aggression and andas andas andas as such should go before the U. U N N. security council for judgment From a practical standpoint there was not only no need for the invasion Invasion Inva inva- sion aloa but there is an an actual danger o Q DC INDIA CALCUTTA AD D Al i I 04 fit If t involved There are no linguistic or racial differences between Hyder Hyder- abad's Hindus and the Hindus of adjacent ad jacent states The boundaries of ef are arbitrary and anel historical historical his his- not dependent upon the ge ge- geography ay y of the vicinity INDIA MIGHT I well have refrained retrained from pushing the issue for a year or two pending a peaceful settlement The potential danger lies in two phases of the situation 1 J. TIIE THE war might prove to be the factor that will precipitate precipitate precipitate pre pre- violent conflict between Hindu and Moslem Pakistan whose more or less peaceful relations now are strained and uneasy 2 IT IS A BLOW LOW to the British Commonwealth to which both India and Pakistan still belong With the Russians acting the way they are any disturbance of the delicate bale balance bal ance ante of power that still prevails Inthe in inthe inthe the East could bring still another catastrophe down flown upon the world RUSSIANS Fantastic Not even the most starry eyed Pollyana could deny that the U S S.- S. Soviet fracas over Berlin was downright down right fantastic and getting geUin more so every day The whole thing simply had bad topped stopped making sense even to many of the diplomats who were embroiled in to the situation WHAT CHANCE was there for any logical kind of peace when even while western diplomats were in Moscow attempting to work out a formula with Soviet Foreign 1 Minister Molotov the Russians In Berlin were inciting riots kidnapping western ector sector policemen and firing on American planes engaged in do the air air- Wt One complication was WIS being piled on top of at another with the ensuing result that any possibility of a peace The Last Mogul i i Y f Syr A As R Yx R s a aSir Sir Mir Ur Osman All AU Khan Rhan sometimes sometimes some Borne times called the ho richest man In Inthe Inthe inthe the world Is the Nizam of Hydera Hydera- bad land locked locked princely state In India which was attacked by Indias India's dominion troops ful rul solution was getting burled buried deeper deep er and deeper That all this confusion was being fostered deliberately by the Soviets was quite evident Their purpose I Ifor for so 80 doing was more obscure TilE THE RUSSIANS want full control of Berlin taking th that t as their immediate immediate im im- mediate objective Ultimately they want to force lorce American occupation troops completely out of Germany after which Russia could take over the great German Industrial potential poten h al including the inestimably valuable valuable value able Ruhr Rub section However there might be still another another an an- other reason for this display of Soviet Soviet So So- viet diplomatic aggression which was planned almost a year ago to erupt this fall fan The Russians might be trying to harass the western nations to the point where the entire Berlin issue will be dumped in the lap of the United Nations Once the crisis comes coms under U. U N. N jurisdiction the Russians might plan to use the inevitable inevitable in in- evitable squabble as a pretext for resigning from the world organization tion and taking their satellite states with them TilE THE WEST EAST-WEST split Into int two opposing power spheres then would be complete Moreover the U U. U N. N itself probably would be reduced to total Impotency in guiding International international affairs And the question of ef whether the Soviet Union is entertaining motives like these might be answered by bythe bythe bythe the end of the year For the western nations were determined that if they didn't get some satisfaction from Moscow soon oon they would arraign Russia before the United Nations this fall COTTON Lift Lilt Dat Dot Bale Dale With the largest cotton crop since 1037 1937 being harvested this year Uncle Sam Is making ready to stage a comeback in the cotton buying busl busi ness Of the bales to come off oft the land the cotton trade estimates that about a third will go into storage storage stor stor- age under federal loan TWENTY TWENTY ONE ONE MILLION 1 people in the United States depend on cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton for lor their livelihood and the fate of the cotton crop therefore is not only a personal but a national con can cern The federal government is coming com corn ing into the picture because cotton prices are coming down They have reached cents a pound which is pretty close to the support floor of cents Heres Here's what happens WHEN WilEN TilE THE COTTON COTrON grower hauls his crop to the warehouse he gets a receipt for it and then he either zeUs sells the cotton at the market price or accepts the governments government's standing offer otter to lend him bim money on it If U he chooses to accept the loan he is paid cent a pound on the average the average the exact price depending on the kind and quality of the cotton Then he is free for one year to sell leU the cotton for more money provided provided provided pro pro- vided the price goes up If U he doesn't sell dell It within a year the government becomes owner of ot the crop IRO PROBABLE ADLE EFFECT of this operation operation oper oper- atlon will wUl be to keep a lot of ot cotton off oI the market this year thus preventing pre venting the price from dropping through trough the support floor Coor Also It will result in the governments government's endIng end end- Ing lag the year oar with several million bales of cotton on Its hands bands |
