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...India at all politically crucial periods a continuous and rigid press censorship so that authoritative news from behind the scenes is most welcome. For that reason the lecture at the Union this evening on "India and England--What of the Future?" by the Indian editor and statesman, Syud Hossain, is most fortunate as well as timely...
...Syud Hossain, internationally famous orator, journalist, lecturer, and authority on relations between East and West will speak tonight in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock. His subject will be, "India and England: What of the future...
...Hossain, an Indian by birth, is a graduate of the University of Calcutta. He began his career in the British Service, following in the footsteps of his father who held high offices under the British Crown. He later engaged in journalism and for several years was a writer in the English Press, contributing to such periodicals as the "New Statesman," "Contemporary Review," and the "Asiatic Quarterly." In India he achieved eminence as Associate Editor and Editor-in-chief of the "Bombay Chronicle," and the "Independent" of Allahabad. In these capacities he gained an influential position as a publicist...
...Hossain is an earnest opponent of war, and denounces the psychology that makes war possible--the ignorant national egotism which expresses itself in "cants of national superiority." "I was in England when the war broke out," he said, "and it was amazing to see educated men and women, cultured people supposedly with intellectual poise, almost instantaneously convinced that every one of the 60,000,000 Germans were Huns. The same thing would happen if the United States declared war on Japan...
...What an astonishing commentary on education this is! A century or more ago we might have said that the people were ignorant, and knew no better, yet there is no change today." Mr. Hossain said that cooperation must replace competition, among both individuals and nations, and that universal principles must be established instead of the ignorant egotism and narrow patriotism of today. He made a plea for a more sympathetic understanding among all nations, and particularly between the East and the West, as a necessary preliminary to world peace...