Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK Idah mahatma atma chandl has indicated that in his opinion a world war against adolf hit ler would be justifiable and possibly necessary the understudy tudy of 0 british with gandhi calms their impera live job of keep their great indian empire in hand probably arent worrying about gandhi more important is the attitude and activity ot of his vigorous and popular understudy der study the 44 year yea ro old pundit pandit nehru the latter has been boldly resistant to british rule spent six years in jail and has acquired popularity and leadership a as gandhi reaches his seventy second year meager news reports from in j dla indicate that nehru has i leen been calming down tn in his agi tatton tation against british imperial I 1 ism and that a few weeks ago i lie fie was vehemently denouncing fascism and the new german aggression london is re assured but watchful as asia may become a balance ot of power in the clash of world dominions and nehru has been an active j propagandist of pan asiatic doc do trine summoning browns and blacks to resist what he believes to be the aggression of the whites born bom ot of a noble caste nehru was educated at harrow and cambridge taking honors in the classics his fattier father the pundit pandit moteal nehru was was a lawyer and the richest roan man in Alla habad babad ile he gave away his mansion and moved into a shabby little house when he became a convert to i indian nationalism ills son reared in splendor had no such ideas when he came home from england lie he was a strong supporter of the british regime until the massacre of 1919 then he burned his 50 british suits donned native dress and became an agitator for the nationalist cause however he was no devotee of loincloth loin cloth asceticism lie ile was all for fighting and it was as the most belligerent of all the indian leaders that he came to the presidency of the all indian congress in 1935 nehru was at times sharply opposed to the non resisting gandhi but apparently their differences have been resolved he Is handsome and engaging a vigorous assailant of the ancient caste system afindia of india IT WAS not until a year ago that romain rolland holland returned to france after more than 20 years exile in switzerland he had opposed war sev lamplighter eral years be sees hope only fore he finished in inner light jean chris t ophe had called him the conscience of europe he is a pallid old man now with thinning hair and sad deep set eyes but still above the battle and still trying to arouse the conscience of mankind he dispatched to the new york international congress of the american musicological society a message of goodwill good will it Is quoted here in accord with this departments wartime alertness to such stich men and messages hesaki he says sayi in the field of art there here la Is not there should not be any rivalry among nations the only combat worthy of us MS is that which Is waged tn in every country aud and at every hour between culture and ignorance between light and chaos let us save all the light that can be saved there Is none more refulgent than music it ls is the sun of the inner universe it was this sun that illumined jean christophe one of the greatest bobki booklet of all times published here just before the world war war profoundly moving to multitudes of americans amerin as a an n avocation of the creative and aspiring spirit of man many ti times in recent years remain rolland holland lias has written that the world had bad little hope of escaping another and possibly last devastating war but described as an old man broken and despairing on his return to france last year he has continued his plea tor for peace decrying hatred pleading tor for understanding ills ilia has been a lone voice never identified with movements or political groupings right or br left lie ile opposed henri Dar barbusse Barbus busse sc and his bis charte group and the various united fronts as lie he did the leaders 0 of violent ke reaction action on the right lie he was educated in music at the ecole normale became a devotee of wagner and then of tolstoi and shakespeare lie ho Is the evangel ol of the humane spirit in a day when it ts is hard pressed consolidated features Ser service |