Mr. Howard bogan with a survey of the many spheres in which India and China have touched each other, from the Buddhist missionaries who brought their religion to China to Major Gerrard who carries the heavy duties of Commissioner of police in Shanghai; from Lord Macartney arguing the case of British trade with the Emperor Chien Lung, to it Richard Dane who built" up China's Salt Gabelle.
He dwelt on India's sympathy with China In her present struggle with Japan, saying that qhis sympathy was pronounced, despite the fact that the Japanese success in challenge ing Russia. generation ago. gave a. strong fillip to the cause of Indian nationalism. Amlable folk in Great 1 Britain had deluded themselves with the thought that Japan was the stabilizing. Influence in the Far East agains Communism in China and elsewhere, The fact was. of course, that Japan had sot up the bogey of Communism to justify the unjust if. fable—her progressive. encroachment on Chinese sell.
It China were Communistically inclined—the Left Wing in England are profoundly mistaken if they think that that possibility exists—her alleged spiritual "mate is ex. tra ordinarily unhelpful, Me. Howard continued. This is a quotation from a Jong private otter received by fairemail from Hankow and dated March 9: fourth. 'There is obvious cause here for India to value her trade associa tions with Japan, and it is to be hoped that, as time passes and the asperities of the present malaise yield. to remedial treatment, the Slovent of' commercial intercourse may have full scope.
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At a meeting of the Birmingham City Council today, the application fon behalf of Lord NuMeld, supported by the Air Ministry, to purchase 130 acres of land at Tyburn, Birmingham, for erecting a factory for the manufacture of military qircratt was con sidered.
There was an overwhelming majority In favour of selling the tand to Morris Motors Ltd,, and the Coun ell undertook to support a formal resolution for that, 'Today's decision will facilitate the urgent preparations of Lord Numeld implement the' undertaking he gave the Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, fo: assist in alteratt production under the Government's air expansion programme.—Wireless, through Reuter.
India has firmly shown hor senso of what Confucius described as the side of right. A curious Indian community in" Osaka is frantically supporting Japan in the name of anti-Imperialism. Tt has received a rebuff from Tagore. Japan's develop ment of the pan-Asian doctrine has ost Its attraction, for It is obvious that pan-Nipnonism is the proper style. "Tt is charitable to assume that Japan does not understand the new forces current in India. She cortainly cannot appreciate the steadfastness which enables Great Britsin in her strength to proceed calmly with constitutional progress in India when the rest of the world including the Far East, is torn by the ambitions of war-lordism rampant.
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