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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Indian Troops Invade Hyderabad, Endanger Country's Shaky Peace; Russia Confuses Crisis in Berlin 1 By Bill Schoentgon, WNU Staff Writer J KDITOR'S NOTE: When oplnloni are empressed fn these columns, they are those of xj u u t n KiAU,.nanA. linlin'i n . inftivuti and not nAKMiirllv at this DeWSpaper.) The Last Mogul .....Mil j i i-r----; ;--; 11 I J ' "1 ' WW'IW"-"! f ; x l, I Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan, sometimes some-times called the fichest man in the world, is the Nizam of Hyderabad, Hydera-bad, land-locked princely state in India which was attacked by India's dominion troops. INVASION: Hyderabad Events in India were a far cry from the days when Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of passive diplomacy prevailed among the affairs af-fairs of that sub-continent. Indian troops, strongly supported by armored units, had invaded the princely state of Hyderabad (see map) whose Moslem ruler called the Nizam had refused to join with the other Indian dominions even though Hyderabad's population is predominantly Hindu. THAT WAS THE whole story. The Nizam and his small, compact Moslem Mos-lem court would not agree to follow the other Indian princely states in acceding to the Dominion of India which was established last year. The Nizam, often called the richest rich-est man in the world, and the only surviving heir of the great Mogul empire, wanted to rule an independent independ-ent hyderabad. Whether he could have succeeded in doing that, even If the dominion government had not opened hostilities hostili-ties against him, is questionable. Hyderabad is completely landlocked and has no access to the sea except by courtesy of the states surrounding surround-ing it. All of its imports and exports, therefore, must pass through India. WHILE HYDERABAD might profess pro-fess its independence as a state, chances are that the economic and political conditions of actual independence inde-pendence never could be achieved. Can India's invasion of Hyderabad 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 as such should go before the U. N. security council for judgment. From a practical standpoint there was not only no need for the invasion inva-sion but there is an actual danger o MXW DELKI J INDIA CALCUTTA I HYDK&AMA jf ful solution was getting buried deeper deep-er and deeper. That all this confusion was being fostered deliberately by the Soviets was quite evident. Their purpose for so doing was more obscure. THE RUSSIANS want full control of Berlin, taking that as their immediate im-mediate objective. Ultimately they want to force American occupation troops completely out of Germany, after which Russia could take over the great German industrial potential, poten-tial, including the inestimably valuable valu-able Ruhr section. However, there might be still another an-other reason for this display of Soviet So-viet diplomatic aggression which was planned almost a year ago to erupt this fall. 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 under U. N. jurisdiction the Russians might plan to use the inevitable in-evitable squabble as a pretext for resigning from the world organization organiza-tion and taking their satellite states with them. THE EAST-WEST split into two opposing power spheres then would be complete. Moreover, the U. N. itself probably would be reduced to total impotency in guiding international interna-tional affairs. And the question of whether the Soviet Union is entertaining motives like these might be answered by the end of the year. For the western nations were determined that if they didn't get some satisfaction from Moscow soon they would arraign Russia before the United Nations this fall. COTTON: Lift Dat Bale With the largest cotton crop since 1937 being harvested this year, Uncle Sam is making ready to stage a comeback in the cotton buying business. busi-ness. Of the 15,219,000 bales to come off the land, the cotton trade estimates that about a third will go into storage stor-age under federal loan. TWENTY -ONE MILLION people in the United States depend on cotton cot-ton for their livelihood, and the fate of the cotton crop, therefore, is not only a personal but a national. concern. con-cern. The federal government is coming com-ing into the picture because cotton prices are coming down. They have reached 31.04 cents a pound, which is pretty close to the support floor of 30.74 cents. Here's what happens: WHEN THE COTTON grower hauls his crop to the warehouse he gets a receipt for it, and then he either sells the cotton at the market price or accepts the government's standing offer to lend him money on it. If he chooses to accept the loan, he is paid 30.74 centr a pound on the average the exact price depending on the kind and quality of the cotton. Then he is free, for one year, to sell the cotton for more money, provided pro-vided the price goes up. If he doesn't sell it within a year the government becomes owner of the crop. PROBABLE EFFECT of this operation oper-ation will be to keep a lot of cotton off the market this year, thus preventing pre-venting the price from dropping through the support floor. Also, it will result in the government's ending end-ing the year with several million bales of cotton on its hands. Involved. There are no linguistic or racial differences between Hyderabad's Hyder-abad's Hindus and the Hindus of adjacent ad-jacent states. The boundaries of Hyderabad are arbitrary and historical, his-torical, not dependent upon the geography ge-ography of the vicinity. INDi MIGHT well have refrained from pu 'hing the issue for a year or two, penu'ng a peaceful settlement. The potential danger lies in two phases of the situation: 1. THE HYDERABAD war might prove to be the factor that will pre- 'eipitate violent conflict between Hindu and Moslem Pakistan, whose more or less peaceful relations now are strained and uneasy. 2. IT IS A BLOW 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 balance bal-ance of power that still prevails in the East could bring still another catastrophe down upon the world. RUSSIANS : Fantastic Not even the most starry-eyed Pollyana could deny that the U. S.Soviet S.-Soviet fracas over Berlin was downright down-right fantastic and getting more so every day. The whole thing simply had stopped making sense, even to many of the diplomats who were embroiled in 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 Minister Molotov, the Russians in Berlin were Inciting riots, kidnapping western sector policemen and firing on American plames engaged in the airlift? air-lift? ' One complication was being piled on top of another, with the ensuing result that any possibility of a peace- |