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Gandhi Urges India
NoltoStab Britain
In Back During War
Also Advises Country Not
To Shovf Enthusiasm for
Conflict, However
By the Associated Press.
WARDHA, India, Dec. 11.—Mo
handas K. Gandhi gave a double
dose of negative advice yesterday
for India:
Show no enthusiasm for the war
in Europe and refrain from stabbing
Britain in the back.
The arch-advocate of independ
ence for India’s 350,000,000 people
holds this twin-barreled Jibe closely
with his philosophy of non-violence.
At the same time, the 70-year-old
leader makes clear his mind is open
to an acceptable formula which
would align Indian nationalists with
the war effort to which the country
is committed officially.
Gandhi gave his moral support
to the allies in the World War.
In more formal terms, Gandhi de
clared in an interview:
“We may not precipitate civil dis
obedience while the viceroy (Lord
Linlithgow, viceroy of India) is
making an effort to placate the
parties (surmount the Congress
party demand that India's complete
freedom be among Britain's war
aims). * * * There can be no civil
rusoDecuence for the sake of em
barrassing Britain.”
The visitor finds Gandhi placidly
working in this obscure village,
which can be reached only by a j
tortuous journey into Central India.
Several miles from Wardha's rail- j
road lies the hamlet of Segaon.
Building Model Community.
Prom the flat countryside of cot
ton and cane patches rise the
tap-tap of workers fitting bamboo
poles into new dwellings. Gandhi j
and his disciples began three years
ago to build a model community
to replace the rural area of poverty
and illiteracy. Almost half of the
600 inhabitants are Harijans. a
term meaning ‘‘offspring of God”
by which Gandhi describes the de
pressed classes whose plight has
been improved.
Gandhi's greeting was a com
bined handclasp and his favorite
exclamation. ‘Ho ho." A flower
bowl was taken off a stool to pro
vide a seat for the "foreigner” while
Gandhi sat cross-legged on matting
in his customary brief cotton gar
ment, reclining against an impro
vised wooden back support.
His utility watch, spinning wheel
snd small bookshelf competed with
the solicitous disciples for space
In the tiny cottage.
“Middling," was Gandhi's reply
to questions of his health. He now
Neighs 109 pounds. Curds and dates
lave been\added to his famed diet
if goats’ milk. He is still extremely
fond of garlic and fruit.
Gandhi's monthly food bill comes
;o the maximum equivalents in
\merican money of $5.
He cautionslv referred to the Eu
opean war in which "lives are being j
hrown away as if they were rub- )
Jishr" -He* termed Russia's Invasion I
if _ *■ | . ,,
Moslem Appeal Angers
Indian Nationalists
BOMBAY, Dec. 11 (/P).—Indian
Nationalists throughout the country
were angered yesterday by an appeal
of Mohammed All Jinnah, president
of the All-India Moslem League, ex
horting Moslems to observe Decem
ber 22 as Deliverance Day.
He called for the observance to
mark the resignations of the eight I
provincial ministers dominated by
the Nationalist All-India Congress
party. The governments quit in
protest against Great Britain's re
fusal to discuss Indian independence
until the end of the European war.
British Golf Star
Weds Argentinian
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 11.—Henry Cotton,
British golf star who captains the
Ryder Cup team, today married Mrs.
Maria Isabel Moss, wealthy 37-year
old Argentine woman. Cotton is 32.
The couple served notice of in
tention to wed June 20, but the mar
riage was delayed.
5;
Geneva
(Continued From First Page.)
ber states to give the Finns all
possible aid.
The Assembly session opened with j
10 countries represented out of a '
total of 53 “official" members.
Leland Harrison, United States
Minister to Switzerland, was among
the observers.
Delegates from three Latin Amer
ican States, Bolivia, the Dominican
Republic and Ecuador, were named
with six others as members of the
Assembly's Control Committee.
Argentina intends to demand Rus
sia's expulsion immediately after
Finland makes her charges. Norway
has been active organizing a Scan
dinavian bloc in a campaign to ob
tain material aid for Finland as
well as shut it off from Russia.
Unanimous Vote*Necessary.
The decision whether Russia
should be expelled from the League
if fftiinH crnil + ir r»f ITHnla ’«• oVsnena
she is the aggressor in the unde- i
clared Finnish-Russian war re- j
quires a unanimous vote of the
Council which the Assembly will
elect.
It has been agreed already that
the new Council will not include
Latvia, on whose soil Russia has
military outposts, but will include
China and Iran. Both may abstain
from voting but the Russians view
even an abstention as support for
the Latin American move to oust
the Soviet.
China is on the spot. Her dele
gate, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, yes
terday saw British Delegate Butler
and French Delegate Joseph Paul
Bouncour, both of whose govern
ments apparently are inclining
toward support of Finland.
From them Dr. Koo hurried to the
hotel where Surits has watched the
swift developments in official si
lence.
The Russians have indicated they
will not be expelled from the League
without doing something about it.
What that might be made the Brit
ish think anxiously of India and the
Turks and Iranians of themselves.
But China seemed worried most,
thinking both of Chungking nego
tiations with Russia about aid for
her war with Japan and the effect
in the United States should she, as
victim of Japanese Invasion, refuse
tc oust Russia for Invading Finland.
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DELHI, INDIA.—MAHATMA GANDHI CONFERS—Mahatma Gandhi (right) and Mr. Jinnah, pres
ident of the Moslem League, shown as they left Mr. Jinnah’s home recently to go to the vice regal
lodge for a conference with the Viceroy. Gandhi warned the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlith
gow, that Indian Nationalists cannot long delay a campaign of civil disobedience unless the dead
lock over India’s status ends favorably. The Nationalists have demanded definite assurances from
Britain regarding political freedom for India. —Wide World Photo.
Berlin and an Angry ‘Heinie'...
How to Keep U. S. Out of War
'So I Says Sure We Were Talking English,
And What the-Business Was It of His'
(Twenty-sixih of a Series.)
By WILLIAM L. WHITE.
BERLIN (By Air Maili.—
‘'Listen.” said the big American
from Alabama, "let me tell it.
George and I were on this bus,
see. on our way to the American
Embassy for our mail, and we
were talking. I forget about what,
and not loud, either, when I
noticed this Heinie sitting op
posite giving us dirty looks. In
about a minute this Heinie gets
up. all red in the face, and still
giving us those looks, and says,
so every one in the bus could
hear, we shouldn’t be talking
English, because of the war.
"Well, it was a good thing I
was along, or George would have
flown off the handle, because he
wanted to up with the old dukes
and let this Heinie have it. But
I calmed George down. I said
we'd ought to remember this
wasn't our country, we d ought to
keep our heads and reason with
this guy, and not get into any
trouble.
"So I says to this Heinie. sure
we were talking English and
what the hell business was it of .
his? I asked him in perfectly
No Place for & S.
Earlier. Mr. Kennedy told parish
ioners of Our Lady of Assumption
Church—where he once served as
an altar boy—not to let "anything
that comes out of anv country in
the world make you believe you can
make the situation one whit better
by getting into the war. There is
no place in this fight for us. It s
going to be bad enough as it is.'
The Ambassador, who arrived here
by plane yesterday after spending a
few days in Washington and New
Yoik, revealed he had lost 15 pounds
in the past six months and that he
planned to visit Lahev clinic today 1
lor a periodic checkup.
Treasury Local to Meet
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tional Federation of Federal Em
ployes, Local Branch No. 262. will
meet at 8 o clock in Room 604, 710
Fourteenth street N.W.
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No Place for U. S.
In European War,
Kennedy Says
Not Our Fight, Envoy to
Britain Declares
In Boston
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 11.—Joseph P. *
Kennedy, American Ambassador to
Great Britain, is convinced th'jt
there is no reason—"economic,
financial or social"—to justify the
United States entering the Euro
pean war.
The Massachusetts-born Ambas
sador declared in an interview yes
terday that “if anybody advocates
our entering the war, the American
public should demand a specific an
swer to the question: ‘Why,’”
Not Our Fight.
One of the influences that might
result in our involvement, he as
serted, was the American peoples
“sporting spirit” in "not wanting to
see an unfair or immoral thing
done,” but, he added “This is not
our fight.”
Speaking as an individual. Mr.
Kennedy said he believed candidates
for public office should be made to
answer "how” they would do the
things they advocate in relation to
the European situation.
"They don’t have to tell us what
ought to be done." he added. “We
know. Let them tell us just how
they would do it.”
Declaring it was “anybody's guess”
as to the possibility of peace in the
near future, the former Boston
banker said he believes “all want
peace, but all have their own ideas
as to what peace should be. Under
the circumstances, who can say
when there will be nparp‘>"
u s just, as necessary to give girls a
chance to become useful citizens as
boys.
The conference, Mrs. Costigan
said, resulted in the discovery that
more variety of work experience
should be given the girls and that
all of them needed training in the
home-making arts and specific
health instruction.
Of the 125,000 girls now on the
program. Mrs. Lindley reported. 40.
000 are in clerical and stenographic
work, 25.000 in home-making activi
ties. 13,000'in the residential centers,
where the girls help keep house
while earning their way: 6.000 in
hospital and public health work.
4.000 as nursery school aides, 5.000
in library work and book repairing.
2.000 assisting in the preparation
and serving of school lunches, 1.500
in arts and crafts. 5.000 in play
ground and other recreation work
and 1.500 in work shops where they
earn while being trained in vari
ous fields of work.
Dry Forces to Elect
The United Dry Forces of the
District will elect officers at their
annual meeting at 8 p.m. today in
the Central Y. M. C. A., 1736 G
street N.W.
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English Novelist Says
War's Result Isn't
Thing That Matters
Phyllis Bottome Says 'If
It's Right We Must
Go Through With It'
Phyllis Bottome, the English nov
elist, told Mrs. Roosevelt’s press con
ference today that “if it's right to
fight, we must go through with it
and leave,the question of results
alone.”
The Englishwoman, recently ar
rived on a lecture tour, was a guest
at the press conference which also
included talks by Mrs. Edward P.
Costigan, widow of the Senator
from Colorado, and Mrs. Betty
Lindley, director of girls’ projects
for the National Youth Adminis- j
tration.
In answer to a reporter's question
on what she thought would be the
outcome of the European war, Mrs.
Bottome said she didn't think that
mattered at all as long as the deci
sion to enter the war had been
made.
Speaking of Finland, she said she
felt like any human being who sees
a big man kick a small boy.
"I’d like to kick the big man my
self.” she declared, adding that she
wishes there were more "Davids” to
fight the "Goliaths.”
Mrs. Costigan and Mrs. Lindley
outlined the results of a recent
"evaluation conference” in Denver
on the work being accomplished on
the girls’ N. Y. A. project.
Mrs. Roosevelt, commenting on
their report, pointed out that evalu
ating girls' work was a new thing,
which has brought out the fact that
7Be Vigilant,
Fire Low/ Advice
Given Tommies
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 11.—The order of
the day issued to the British troops
before they went into action for the
first time in the current conflict was
shown to King George when he
visited the expeditionary fbrce yes
terday.
The order read:
"You have been chosen to go into
action as the vanguard of the Brit
ish Army. We shall be in the clos
est touch with cur allies, who have
extended us the warmest of wel
comes.
"Unless every one had done his
duty since arrival in France this
unique honor would not have been
conferred upon you. The enemy
awaits our arrival with expectancy.
The opportunity is yours to main
tain and enhance the glorious tra
ditions inscribed in your colors.
“Be vigilant, be cool and fire low. |
To the last man. to the last round
and a bit more. Not only the eyes
of your country are upon you, but
those of our allies and the whole
empire.
"With justice on our side the
proud watchwords will be: ‘On ne
passe pas!’ (roughly, ‘they shall not
pass!’) and ‘On les aura!’ (‘we shall
win!’)”
Canada ranks third among gold
producing countries.
—
Luckenbach Heiress Sues
For Bigger Slice of Estate
By the Associated Press,
NEW YORK. Dec. 11—Edgar F.
Luckenbach, the shipping magnate
who turned his back on his pretty
daughter Andrea when she married
a butter-and-egg salesman, may
have to face her in court. She has
started suit in Brooklyn Surrogate
Court for a bigger slice of her grand
father's estate.
Her father contends his chil
dren's interest in the Luckenbach
Steamship Co. is restricted to a lim
ited number of ships, worth about
$1,500,000. However. Andrea, who
married Billy Dobbs, says her grand
father intended that she and her
two brothers share the huge business
that might grow from the original
enterprise. This, she says, amounts
to about $10,000,000.
It was expected the case would
take months to hear before a spe
cial referee.
fcour Saved in Fire
Four persons were led to safety
by firemen last night from a smoke
filled building at. 431 Fourth street
S.W. The fire originated in a wood
shed behind the house at 413 Fourth
street and spread to the house.
Firemen said the damage was small.
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over. He says to this first one.
•These gentlemen are Americans.’
‘Well,’ said the first one. ‘they
were talking English.' 'That's
their language,’ says the second
one. ‘they've got a right to talk
it. Germany isn't at war with
America ' ‘Not this time.' I says
to the second one. ‘unless your
friend here wants to make some
thing out of it.’
“So then this second Heinie
goes on to tell the first one that
Americans didn't like Germany
Very much anyway, and he
oughtn't to be doing things that
might make it worse than it al
ready was. So then the first one
got all calmed down and said if
he was hasty, he apologized, and
here was his card, and I give him
my card, and one to the second
Heinie. and George didn't have a
card, and it probably would of
ended up with all four of us in
some beer parlor having a drink
on it, only just then w-e come to
our stop where George and I had -
td get off. but it was a good thing t
I was along."
cause his army was in Poland did
he expect Americans to talk on
their fingers like dummies? You
see there was no use antagoniz
ing the fellow. I didn't raise mv
voice the whole time and every
thing I said I had a nice friendly
smile on my face.
“But this Heinie goes right on
in German, saying thfcy were at
war with England, and we
should'nt be talking English, and
it was a good thing I was along,
or George would have lost his
temper. Because instead of say
ing something that might offend
him, I asked him in a nice
friendly way if he wanted to
fight so bad why wasn't he down
at the West Wall? I pointed out
there was quite a number of fel
lows waiting down there that
spoke better English than we did,
W'ould be glad to accommodate
him. any time he felt like fight
ing.
"I said maybe the reason a big,
well-fed fellow like him wasnt
in uniform was because he might
have influential political friends.
I said maybe he was some po
litical big-shot himself, and I
couTd quite understand why he
stayed back here in Berlin to start
street brawls, instead of going
way off there to the West Wall
where he might get hurt. I don’t
think he really was a political
big-shot, but when you are in a
tight place, there is nothing like
a little tactful flattery.
“In spite of the nice way I was
handling him no telling how it
would have ended if another
Heinie hadn't got up and come
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