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...back as early summer, the British Government wanted to issue a White Paper, to prove to its own citizens and the world that Lend-Lease was a two-way street whose busy traffic had only been hinted at. The White Paper was ready for publication last August. But the U.S. Government, notably timorous Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.. talked the British out of it. Some of the Administration objections were technical. and sound; but the main objection to endorsing such a statement was a political fear of seeming too pro-British...
Field Marshal Smuts is Prime Minister of a country split into sharp oppositions: pro-war and antiwar, pro-British and anti-British, 8,000,000 underprivileged natives and 2,000,000 privileged whites. Well aware was Jan Smuts that his few fair-minded concessions to South Africa's colored majority could and would be used to make votes against his Government. Last week he gravely admitted: "As Commander in Chief I have been disgraced by some of my soldiers. This is a matter of first-class importance to the country. I will not allow such things to happen again...
...liberal, pro-British representative in the Gissimo's cabal is Wang Shih-chieh, 52, lawyer and educator. Wang is Chief of the State Planning Department and President of the People's Political Council. Weekly he and other scholars lunch with the Gissimo, academically review China policy...
Higher ranking politicos in the colonial setup, having democratic, pro-British leanings, were ousted and thrown into jail the moment the twin-pronged offensive got under way, the professor revealed. A similar expulsion occurred even before the campaign, when democratic leaders in the French colonial army and navy were taken from office as soon as the Vichy regime had been installed on the Continent...
Aurobindo's ashram (a retreat for disciples of a religious leader) is only one of many in mystic-minded India. Best known is Mohandas Gandhi's. Much more worldly, and very pro-British is Aurobindo's, which he set up 33 years ago. There Margaret Wilson responds to the name Dishta, meaning in Sanskrit the discovery of the divine self...