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Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents." He went into a huddle with Moslem Leaguers and Hyderabad officials. Delhi was sure Jinnah was angling for the support of Moslem states in the Middle East...
...members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...
...dream is Nigerian independence. He would like to see it come in a 15-Year Plan: ten years of equal British-Nigerian government, then five years of Nigerian government with Britain standing by. Next to that he wants the country developed industrially. He doubts that the present-day Briton will do it. "The type of Britons who come . . . now," he says, "are not as intelligent as those who came before. Either we have progressed or they have degenerated...
...Tell you how I look at it," said a U.S. radio commentator-thoroughly hep to his country's new position in the world-to a recently visiting Briton. "Guam is our chief base in the Pacific, and naturally we don't expect Guam to be selfsupporting. Now England, you see, is our chief base in Europe, and of course we've got to carry it-just like Guam...
Agreement to Disunite. Far away from the Jumna's banks, in the quiet atmosphere of London's No. 10 Downing St., a Briton who had striven desperately to save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...