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: Foreign Policy Lunch
Discusses New India

S. K. Ratcliffe Upholds British
“Evolution vs. Revolution”
Government in India





The subject of the Foreign Policy
luncheon on last Saturday was “In-
dia, Evolution Versus Revolution;”
_ and the two speakers were Mr. S. K.
Ratcliffe, former editor of the States-
man and now editorial writer of the
New Statesman in London, and Mr.
Haridas T. Muzumdar, author of

“Gandhi the Apostle,” “India’s Non-
Violent Revolution,” and “Men Ver-
sus Machine Guns.”

India would be ready to receive Do-
minion Status or whether she was not
already prepared for her full free-
dom. ;

The first speaker, Mr. Ratcliffe, be-
gan by saying that he was “too old
to begin by defending the British Im-
perialist system.”

Ten years ago the Government of
India Act had provided a new co-
operation between India and the Brit-
ish Government. This was _unsatis-
factory and that meant an advance
toward: the provincial autonomy of
1927, a revision of the act. In 1917
Montague said that full self-govern-
merit was a goal obtained through
autonomy and in 1929, the viceroy,
Lord Irwiny made a supplementary
statement. that India was working for

“Dominion Status, the scheme and
idea of which received great support.
If Lord Irwin’s declaration had been
reaffirmed in England it would have
been a great:gtep toward the solu-
tion of the problem, bringing India
within the scope of a new co-opera-
tion, but. this clear interpretation in
the home country was not possible.
Thus the widespread civil disobedi-
ence and the cause of the two round
table conferences--arose.

The outcome of the first conference
was to unify the demands of all the
parties of India for self-government.
It showed the readiness of the groups
and Indian princes who rule under
the old paternal system to come under
the federal system. The second round’
table conference was not so promi-
nent because of the confused state of
the British politics at the time. The
second round table conference did,
however, bring to light two ques-
tions: Firstly, If the authority of

. a responsible government was trans-
ferred to India ‘what would be the
basis for the new financial system,
and second, Had India faced the ques-
tion of the defense of the country
when responsibility should be in their
own hands? At this conference Gan-
dhi said that he was convinced that
England had no idea of transferring
the army and finance to India, and
since then’ the Indian National Gov-
ernment has never really faced. these
two problems. At the second confer-
ence the Moslems, the 80 million mi-
nority, said through their delegates
that they would accept no terms of
settlement that would not give them
protection from the Hindus. Second-
ly, because of the Gandhi leadership
the depressed classes were inadequate-
ly represented at the conference,
Gandhi said that these classes belong
to the Hindu world, although they
are disinherited religiously and so-
cially and that it will not raise them
to treat them as a minority instead
of as the part of the class, to which
ph i belong.

Mr. Muzumdar opened his discus-
sion by congratulating Mr. Ratcliffe
and saying that his statement was
quite unsatisfactory. The difficulties
arose from the personnel of the round
table conferences. The delegates
from India were all appointed by the
British Government to “take part in
the vaudeville show in St. James’
Palace.” The Indian Nationalist
party, according to Mr. Muzumdar,
‘has the loyalty of all the nations of
India.

Two forces were ‘ca for the
failure of the second round table con«
ference: first, the English press, and
second, the common Englishman who.
believed that one-fifth of his income
was bound up in India. It is the aim
of the Indian revolution to accom-
plish: unity among all, riddance of
untouchability, discouragement of li-
quor and opium trade, home indus-
tries and the participation of women
in the emancipation.

The discussion |
seemed to be a question of how soon



Catherine Rieser Stars
at Hedgerow Theatre

It is certain that no one can ever
accuse the Hedgerow Theatre group
in Rose Valley of being in the dilet-

tante class in the matter of play pro-
duction. Most “little theatre” groups
are well satisfied if they do a half-
dozen plays a season; twelve is con-
sidered a momentous undertaking.

Yet Saturday night the. Hedgerow
Players presented their thirty-eighth
show of their season (which they
date from April 6, 1931, to April 6,
1932) and their thirteenth brand-new
show. If that isn’t an accomplish.
ment suggesting industry, ambition
and a willing spirit, we would like to
know what is.

Their most recent offering was. St.
John Ervine’s “The Ship,” written
about twelve years ago and produced
in England, but never, as far as we
can find out, in this country. It is
one of Mr. Ervine’s more serious ef-
forts and reflects, incidentally, Eng-
land’s post-war bitterness. -Dramat-
ically it falls a good way behind
“John Ferguson,” easily the best of
the author’s plays, and the aforemen-
tioned note of bitterness detracts
somewhat from its artistic balance,
but even at that “The Ship” manages



to be-eonsiderably —better-than-two=

thirds of our contemporary theatrical
output.

The play’s greatest asset is a pow-
erful and moving last act—an act
that works havoc with the emotions
and leaves the auditors limp as the
final curtain falls. This act’s merits
atone to a considerable extent for
the talkiness of the first act and the
irrelevancies of the. second.

The principal characters are old
people; that may account for the fact
that it has never been produced here
professionally. It concerns a promi-
nent shipbuilder in an English sea-
coast town whose whole life centers in
his beloved plant and in the boats
that it turns out. Accordingly, it
amounts to tragedy when his only
son declares in heated and forceful
terms as antipathetic toward ma-
chinery and commerée and expresses
the desire to get back to the soil. He
refuses to work “at the yard” and
chooses to buy a. small farm instead,
aided by a financial contribution from
his elderly grandmother, who under-
stands his feelings.

The father does everptiiing in his
power ‘to ruin this agricultural
scheme; he stoops so low as to try
to bribe the boys’ partner to “throw
him down” deliberately. Failing in
this, he finally prevails on his son to
leave his farm for a few weeks in
order to make the maiden voyage on
the firm’s newest and finest ship, his
plea being based on his own bad
health and his doctor’s refusal to let
him go.

The steamer strikes an iceberg and
goes to the bottom, the son being one
of its many victims. The ship-own-
er’s pretentious and dominating house
of cards comes tumbling*down. He
has lost his two dearest possessions—
his boy ‘and the steamship Magnifi-
cent. His pride and his arrogance

are. cast down. in the dust and -hé is’

even- considering suicide, when his
mother, cool and level-headed auto-
crat of the househeld, gives him wis-
er counsel. He-is to become a grand-
father in the near future, and it is
the advise of this wise matriarch ,of
the Thurlow family that he “carry
on” the famous shipbuilding firm so
that he can hand it down to future

generations.
* * *

The best scenes are those between
Thurlow and his mother; in fact, the
character of the latter really domi-
nates the action. She is played by

Catherine Rieser (Ex-’31, Bryn Mawr

College) and well played,too, al- |] ~

though Miss Rieser is obviously far
too young to assume such a role.
There are times when the thin, high
voice of age which she assumes is in-
elined to artificiality, but her sincer-
ity and her splendid pantomimic skill
overcome these minor handicaps.

Al McGranary, as Thurlow, is also
excellent, especially in the later
scenes. Ferd Nofer gives a good ac-
count of himself as the son’s farming
partner in the second act. The role
of the boy, difficult and not always
sympathetic, is only fairly well filled
by Alfred Rowé. —

Not a great play, “The Ship” is
decidedly worth while. . Mr. Ervine
never writes shoddily or cheaply,

| hellfire and damnation was early set

Religion to Survive Must
Have' Three Prerequisites



ss atate Coxtributed in News
Competition —

“Cultus, creed and conduct are the
psychological and historical elements
necessary to any religion which shall
survive,” declared the Rev. Malcolm
E. Peabody, of Chestnut Hill, speak-
ing in Chapel, February 28. As the
basis for an informal discussion after
the service he gave a short talk on
“How Religion Works.”

The interesting fact about Chris-
tianity, he pointed out, is that al-
though in the past its church has of-
ten overemphasized one aspect of re-
ligion at the expense of others, it has
always shown its ability to return to
a proper balance. Today, we are
weakest in cultus, and show an un-
willingness to recognize worship as
the necessary inspiration for a Chris-
tian code of conduct. In remedying
this defect, we should use the experi-
ence of nineteen centuries of Chris-
tianity as the basis of reform.

The savage, desiring to do some-
thing for the superior power of which
he knows nothing, sets aside holy
places to which he brings sacrifices.
Gradually however, (as in the history
of Israel), iricreased knowledge of
God_-results—in—-the-substitution—of—a
pure heart for the sacrifice of mate-
rial treasure, and a code of conduct
is developed reflecting the conception
of God. (The individual, passing
through the same experience, feels
God, finds about Him, and then does
something.) “Not really necessary—
in a chapel write-up. where you want
to cut as much as possible.

In America, the Puritan God of

aside, but the Puritan code of con-
duct persisted unchallenged until af-
ter the war, when an unsuccessful at-
tack first on creed, then on conduct,
resulted only in .a cleaner under-
standing of the necessity for. worship
and prayer.

The discussion in the Common
Room afterward revolved around the



question—“How do you learn to

pray?” Dr. Peabody answered ques- |

tions on the subject, and then offered |
his system, which he uses in confir- |
mation classes and for himself. Be
quiet and somehow get a sense of
God’s presence and what He has |
to say to you, not you 'to Him, Pray-/
ing is made easier by frequent read-
ing of the Bible and by working to}
ally yourself spiritually with God, 30 |
that you can talk to Him. The only
way to be good is to start the day
with prayer, and place yourself at'
one with God.



February Lantern Review
Given by Miss Buchanan |



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precise writing of The Lantern is
done.: Certain of the phrases are per- }
fect in diction and rhythm. The ex-
cellence of “Prelude” consists in its
recognition of the complexity of the
mood of a 15-yéar-old girl—a mood



while the earnestness, of hispurpose-|

and the literary quality of his writ- |
ing are both in evidence in the pres- |
ent instance.

—Arthur B. Waters, Phila. Public |

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that. might have been crudely dis-

posed .of as vanity. Miss Lombardi.

goes too far, perhaps, in giving the
child’s world a design. The young
girl dissects experience, but she rarely
perceives the relation between the |"
parts and their place in a whole. /It
is to Miss Clews’ critical essay on
“Mourning Becomes Electra,” how-
ever, that the highest praise must go.
It is the brilliant contribution to The
Lantern. Miss Clews has a mature
knowledge of what constitutes great
tragedy. She perceives the pretense,
the, senseless repetition, the common-
place exposition | and technique of
O’Neill’s latest play. She has written
not only the best piece of work in
The Lantern, but a criticism that
stands far above most of’ the reviews
by her more famous elders. The long

essay holds one’s attention to the end

by its vigor and — of thought
and expression.

It is this. vigor and vitality that
one misses in the creative work of
The Lantern. If the editors have
reason to be depressed, it is because
the spirit of the writing is as dead
as Miss Reinhardt’s characters. The
contributors are to be praised for
their delicate writing, their sensitive-
ness to the complexity of experience
and their blending of separate parts
into-a- whole. -What-they-have-done;
they have done well. But the noise
of the campus and the joy in the
absurdities of little things are not in
their pages. And, while The Lantern
is to be congratulated on realizing its
limitations and on attempting only
what lies within the range of an un-
dergraduate, it is perhaps to be cen-
sured for making that range too nar-
row, for choosing the path that leads
to decadence rather than to life.

: DOROTHY BUCHANAN.



WM j
Dr. Kuehnemann to Make .
Memorial Address on Goethe

Dr. Eugen Kuehnemann, professor
of philosophy at the University of
Breslau, Germany, will deliver the
centennial address in memory of

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, great-
est German poet, who died in Weimar
on March 22, 1832. The lecture will
be given in Goodhart Hall on Monday,
March'14, at 8.20 P. M. The topic -
will be “Goethe and the Modern
World.”

The lecture, which is to be given
in English, will be open to all mem-
bers of the College and to the general
public. :

Professor Kuehnemann, who is
touring the United States at the invi-
tation of the Carl Schurz. Memorial
Foundation, ranks as one of the great-
est living Goethe scholars. In his
monu mental two-volume work
“Goethe,” which appeared in 1930, he
takes the drama “Faust” as the basis
for his interpretation of the poet’s
development. He has also written
books on Kant, Herder and Schiller.
His reputation rests equally on his
achievements as a philosopher and as
a literary historian.

Dr. Kuehnemann was appointed as
the _first-rector of _the-_new Royal
Academy at Posen in 1903. He has
been professor of philosophy at the
University of Breslau, Silesia, since
1906. From previous sojourns this
German scholar is well known in the
United States: He was visiting pro-
fessor at Harvard in 1906-07 and
1908-09 and at the University of Wis-
consin in 1912-13 and holds honorary
degrees from both institutions. He
visited America during sthe early
years of the World War. }



















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