Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 1, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday february 1, 1968 Mah Atilia Gandhi nearly forgotten warning signals flying in Korea new Delhi special the 20th anniversary of his assassination Mahatma Gandhi is almost a forgotten Man in India his example of self Sac fice mocked by self serving poll and his counsels disregarded by the govern ments who inherited the dependent India he struggled for the Man who fired the three fatal shots at the afternoon of Jan 30, 1948, was hanged defiantly proclaiming h e acted to save the nation. His. Iacoi splices having completed jail terms have been set free a the question of How the assassins could have carried out then plot is still being investigated by the Indian government the Garden path at the House in new Delhi where the murder was eur matted is marked by a simple Stone inscription recording Gandhi s last words Hai ram of he said As the bullets struck a veranda nearby is painted with scenes of his life when Gandhi walked the Dusty roads of India preach ing his message of simplicity and brotherhood from Village to Village. The government has preserved the simply furnished House in Gujarat that was Gandhi s Home As a National shrine. A government commission is preparing plans for a world wide Celebration of next years Centenary of his birth most towns in India have Metal statue of Gandhi showing him in his Swift stride clutching a Book to his naked to the 7 changed Little but everyday life in Village India has changed Little in the intervening 20 years. I a forgotten Man says Lai Kapur a retired Justice of the Indian supreme1 court who has Mahatma Gandhi been named by the govern ment to another commission to investigate the Circum stances of the assassination. India today shows ample evidence that Gandhi is remembered More in word than in deed. Toleration and moderation no longer act Sieve results. Appeals from above to eschew violence Are Dis regarded from below. Fanatics still find Fertile ground in which to sow the seeds of hate. Many of Gandhi s ideas about the future of the nation have been abandoned. After his death India built steel m 11 la and hydroelectric d disregarding his advice that the Village econ omy was the base of a stable and prosperous India. How could the murder of Gandhi have happened How could India s most precious life of that 78-year-old have been thrown to the winds of Fate so casually there were signals beforehand but the government v failed to react in time. Perhaps it was. Just due to the chaos prevailing in at a time when floods of refugees., poured into other cities hatred was in the air. People were being killed and dispossessed by the hundreds of thousands a group of orthodox Hin dus wanted action and they moved from the Lunatic fringe to the conservative Middle of society drawing inspiration from wealth and. Learning gathering support for their simplistic View of the danger of appeasement of Pakistan. When Gandhi began a fast on Jan. 12 to pressure the Indian government into pay ing the 550 million rupees due to Pakistan As part of the partition settlement these men moved into action against Gandhi. The Indian government feared that Pakistan would use the Money to Purchase arms for action in Kash Mir where hostilities had broken out. Gandhi argued in his usual moralistic Way that not paying the Money would amount to a breach of Faith by the Indian government. The Money was paid a few Days later and Gandhi called off his fast but in a state of havoc. Some of India s Best policemen were mos lems and Many left for Pakistan As soon As the riots erupted. An under manned Delhi police Force was left to Cope with the situation As Best it could. To make m a to or s worse Gandhi himself refused to allow the police to search the people who came to attend his regular prayer meetings. And after the tragedy ironically the communal violence stopped abruptly. It was As if the Shock was so great that it sent tremors across the subcontinent and froze people in act of murder and arson. Kapur s commission has heard the testimony of 61 witnesses to. Date and expects to hear 15 or 16 More. It had originally been Given a deadline of March 31 to submit its report but few people expect the commis Sion to wind up its work before the second half of Liis year. Thai town grows uneasy f w jets shatter by Arthur j. Dommen u tourist some time an interview that became famous for the furore it touched off re marked that she wished the thais would Stop their Damn smiling they have stopped smiling or almost. The reason is obvious from the infernal howling shrieking and booming that greets the visitor on arrival instead of their Carefree life of three or four years ago the citizens of this Northeast t own now have a sprawling air base on their Doorstep supersonic american jets that rattle the timbers of their temples and make a Good night s sleep impossible a Row of Sleazy strip joints and hordes of prostitutes. In place of the tones of the thai flute wafting on the gentle evening Breeze there is the do of Jukebox music. C i t i z i n s who once feared nothing More than the Forest Phi now fear 20 tons of Metal hurtling out of the sky on top of their wooden houses. Their nervousness is understandable. Just a few weeks ago an f-86 Sabre Jet of the Royal australian air Force which uses the con Crete runway and taxiways along with the . Air Force crashed two Miles out destroying five houses and injuring a Small girl. The base s principal customers Are Mcdonnell f-4c s of the . Air Force. The twin Jet fighter bombers Roar off the runway Over the North end of Ubon s main Street with an ear splitting crackle. Landing coming in Low with their tails Down to make them More manoeuvrable at relatively Low Speed they dust the town with a phantom like howl. V assigned to bomb targets in North Vietnam and Laos the phantoms get airborne at any hour of the Day or night residents say except for a Brief period Between 3 5 . Even engine test keep residents awake. Like Tachikawa Ita Zuke Misawa Suwon Kadena or Angeles City Tybon now has All the tinsel Prosperity and the real social problems that go. With being a base town. Ubon s population in the 1960. Census is judged by officials to have swollen by at least a Quarter that again As people have flocked in from outlying to. Set up the usual scr vices that go with Mili tary life. Bookmakers and Barber shops do a Good business and general Jer Chandise stores Stock glittering arrays of japanese transistor radios and Tele vision sets mainly destined for the american purchaser. Traffic jams the streets and Trees Are being chopped Down to make Way for it along the main exit from town to the. North. A full fledged construction Boom is going on. Dominating the town is a Brand new nine Story hotel where the off duty airman can rent a relatively clean air conditioned room for the same Price he would pay at a second class hotel in Bangkok. Less pretentious establishments p e f u 11 y Beckon to potential customers with flashing Neon lights. A loft of the clientele is support personnel for the aircraft Crews who actually Man the planes on the hazardous a n d fatiguing missions Over enemy territory. The pilots and their navigators generally keep to their own clubs on base or to a few hangouts off base. In addition to air Force personnel there Are men from the United states Aid Mission and civilian con tractors engaged in work for the military or for the joint .-thai counter insurgency Effort. There have reportedly few if any unpleasant incidents Between the americans and the thai civilian population. While americans Riding through town on motorbikes thai girls on the rear fender occasion ally draw hostile glances from older people Small thai children still Delight edly burst into a chorus of farang foreigner at the approach of an american. For smaller children though the noise of the air base can be a problem. A tiny girl in the rear of a restaurant on the main Street burst into a crying in. After a particularly rattling Low level pass by a Phan Tom. Some families have reportedly moved across the River to Ubon s sister City of warm Cham rap to escape the Din. Report says drugs May Breed monsters by dents Warner cais7berra special no one has any reason to be surprised by the hijacking of the american intelligence vessel the North korean coast. The warning signals that trouble is in the making have been flying High for 15 months the North simply floes not and will not accept the partition of Korea and has been actively and openly preparing to bring the two parts together by All and any Means. In a major address to the North korean communist party on oct. 5, 1966, Kim ii Sung the Northern Leader Laid Down the program to liberate the South. North Korea had two tasks he said. The to Complete the socialist revolution in the North. The other was to serve As the main revolutionary base for the liberation of the South. Kim Drew on his experience of two wars the korean War and War in Vietnam in. Drafting his program. He saw the weakness an his own initial efforts to seize control in the South by direct invasion in 1950 an the strengths of the exported revolutions that to Chi Minh had handled so adroitly in South Vietnam the korean War was a simple act of overt aggression designed to produce a Quick military decision. No Effort was made to prepare the South for the invasion or to create a people s War there in its support. The fundamental differ ence in the nature of the two wars was impressed forever on my own mind by an experience in the opening Days of the korean War without warning i came face to face with a North korean tank. In South Vietnam if i had s ver been unfortunate enough to find myself in such a p o s i t i o n local guerillas would have made certain that i did not escape. Kim ii Sung s new plan is intended to Correct the errors of the past. Large numbers of agents have been infiltrated the South from the North during the past year and efforts have been made to create a United front of workers and peasants. The object is to exploit All conceivable economic and political grievances to use both violent and non violent and to undermine the government of South Korea just As the Viet Cong undermined the authority the South vietnamese government in preparation for the armed insurgency in 1959. In May 1967, australian p r 6-communist journalist Wilfred Burchett reported from Pyongyang the North korean capital that the possibility of a renewed outbreak of the War was being Given greatest prominence. He said in a dispatch to the associated press the question of the reunification of Korea is listed As a major National task to be accomplished during the life of the present everyone from Premier Kim on Down expresses it or. Burchett said that every Village through which he passed on a tour of coastal areas in both the East and West and on the Road leading to the Border at Panmunjom had devices Lesem Hng Meiry go rounds that showed models of american planes and Heli copters that soared and dived release Jig parachutists while local militia men prepared to fire their weapons. It is difficult even to guess How much it Ogress has been made in establishing base areas among the peasants in the South. In purely conventional ways the North is at least As Well prepared for action As it was a 1950 All male adults Are re Juned to undergo military framing a standing army of men is divided into 18 infantry divisions. It is equipped with about 500 soviet medium tanks 450 other armoured vehicles 3 000 artillery pieces and some Sam missiles. The air Force has an estimated 460 combat air Craft though most of these Are obsolete by Vietnam War standards. It is pointless to attempt to assess just How far Kim ii Sung is prepared to go at this stage but the accelerated Pace and greater daring shown in the hijacking of the american vessel and the attempt to assassinate president Park no room for doubt that the situation is develop ing seriously. Cotton baby dolls scooped neck with trim piped Ormi sweetheart idea and ribbon Bew at Centra Bikini to match Slier so a red Hue or Green with White Valentine cards 2.00 i by Bella pick United nations special the guardian both Mari Juana and Ltd can result in monster children not to mention the ill effect on the drug users themselves. Before adjourning its annual meeting the United nations commission on narcotics repeated its Strong warning on the dangers of marijuana Ltd and even doping. The commission appealed to governments to exercise stricter controls. It spent far less time discussing illicit traffic in most of its attention for the first time on the so called lesser drugs. 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